Dialectical Materialism

In Dialectical Materialism, the current exhibition at ArtMoorHouse, three artists are showing, each of whom 'approach their work from different directions - intention towards intuitive form, light balanced with matter, representation of an abstract idea - but ultimately can find common ground.' Their focus in this exhibition is on dialogues - between the artists and their material, between the artists and the external world, or Nature, and also between the works shown - in order to 'give rise to new syntheses, new forms, new ideas.'

David Degreef-Mounier 'uses materials for their ability to be transformed, for their malleability and their metamorphic properties, in order to explore new landscape of the mind.' 'His research revolves around a Lacan quotation: "I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think". It translates in his work by a series of ongoing experiments, where, by rejecting expectations and preconceptions, he is able to accept what is happening here and now. He states: "Art is not simply an object, nor does it exist solely in the mind. Rather it is the relationship between the two”.'

Phil Dobson has developed a 'technique of layering and sanding acrylic, building up relief and then eroding it; which acknowledges, in the resulting flatness, 'a schematic way of representing the world.' His work combines 'amorphous form and precise delineation, the fluidity of paint with the rigour of geometry, the symbolic colour of maps with the luminosity of stained glass.'

Ileana Arnaoutou says that the stepping-stone of every work she creates 'is a walk, a treasure haunt in the city.' Discarded objects have always intrigued her creativity as, inspired by the culture of her country, she believes 'that every element has its own history and forms by that way its own character.' She feels she rescues 'objects and materials, bringing them back to life, by dismantling and combining them together, by lighting them up.' The ancient Egyptian ritual of weighing the heart has played a pivotal role in building up the conceptual aspect of her works. She says: 'Weighing the heart with a feather, for me is an amazing symbolic structure, which is mostly present in everything in life. My aim is to create and imagine scales, imagine the possible two sides, imagine their relationship.
My sculptures weight light and colour with matter, soul with human body. The "results” and combinations are infinite and that is what makes me want to create.'

The next exhibition at the Gallery will be Armageddon by Mariano Chelo, who 'has developed a surrealistic, abstract and cubistic oriented language to express his ... themes.' In 2003 he founded MAP, “Movimenti Artistici Periferici”, an art gallery/workshop where he exhibits personal and other artirts’ works from all over the world. Besides his painting production, his work includes: art installations, “action painting” performances and computerised art.

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