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Michail Pirgelis

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Michail Pirgelis   (b. 1976)

Second Parcours, 2019. Aluminium, titanium, lacquer 134 × 85 × 4 cm

Spruethmagers gallery

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Michail Pirgelis

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Michail Pirgelis, Sweatshirt, 2013

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Michail Pirgelis - Onera 

Aluminium, lacquer, 282 x 130 x 22 cm, 2008

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by Michail Pirgelis

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MICHAIL PIRGELIS - Alias, 2017, Aluminium, titanium, lacquer, 84 x 62 x 14.5 cm, © Michail Pirgelis Courtesy Sprüth Magers Photography by: Ben Hermanni

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Michail Pirgelis

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DAVID OSTROWSKI, F (A THING IS A THING IN A WHOLE WHICH IT'S NOT), 2016, LACQUER AND PAPER ON CANVAS, 100 X 80 CM. Currently showing at SPRÜTH MAGERS LOS ANGELES, 2016 David Ostrowski is also featured in 'Painting Regarding the Present'.

Courtesy the artists and Sprueth Magers

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Artist: David Ostrowski

Venue: Sundogs, Paris

Exhibition Title: Political Paintings

Date: September 28 – November 3, 2019

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Full gallery of images, press release, and link available after the jump.

Images:

Images courtesy of Sundogs, Paris 

Press Release:

SUNDOGS: You’re exhibiting paintings of owls that have been mostly painted over. Although they bring together diverse styles, the animals function like pictograms. Why did you make them disappear behind a wall of paint?

DAVID: I like to demystify them. The symbolism of the bird of wisdom, the allegory of good and evil—I want to dismantle these things. I’m trying to connect their vacuous faces with simple painterly gestures. It resembles a street wall on which someone amateurishly tried to cover over graffiti. To have the figurative owls clash with a brutish painterly layer is exciting to me. Some owls manage to break out. Others vanish behind the painted surface.

SUNDOGS: Most of the owls are pretty awkward, and they’re not only looking at their viewers; they’re also haunting them. Could they be considered self-portraits?

DAVID: No, I’d make a self-portrait confident and handsome. The owls serve as empty containers or moldings, and I’m trying to caricature personalities from the arts, sports, and the business world. I don’t care about the animal itself; I’m only using it as an expression of their characters in general.

SUNDOGS: Why is the exhibition titled Political Paintings?

DAVID: Back in 2009 I made the first owls, but they were never shown. I found it amusing to be eyed and surveilled while I was painting. Ten years later, it’s the right time to make them public. The goal of the works is to overthrow high authorities.

David Ostrowski (b. 1981) lives and works in Cologne. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Albert Oehlen from 2004 to 2009. He was awarded the Atelierstipendium by the Kölnischer Kunstverein and the Imhoff-Stiftung, Cologne, in 2012. Recent solo exhibitions include Political Paintings, Sundogs, Paris (2019); Political Correction, Piece Unique, Cologne (2019); The thin red line, Sprüth Magers, London (2018); Bei mir geht es in den Keller hoch, Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona (2017); To Lose (a two-person show with Michail Pirgelis), Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany (2016); The F Word, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen (2015); I want to die forever, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria (2015); How to do things left, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2014); and Just do it, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (2014). Ostrowski’s work has been included in group exhibitions at the M Woods Museum, Beijing (2015); Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria (2014); and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2014). His work also featured in DONT the Music and Art Performance at Halle 9 Kirowwerk, Leipzig, Germany (2017).

Link: David Ostrowski at Sundogs

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from Contemporary Art Daily http://bit.ly/2JgVdaS

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwojvmGJZSc -  TO LOSE DAVID OSTROWSKI & MICHAIL PIRGELIS

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Michail Pirgelis

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A THING IS A THING IN A WHOLE WHICH IT'S  NOT Curated  by Mike Potter Projects, 2010 Shannon Bool Sebastian Dacey Koen Delaere Thea  Djordjadze Hansjoerg  Dobliar Siggi Hofer Bas van den Hurk Gregor Hylla Theo Michael David Ostrowski Michail Pirgelis Gerda Scheepers Luke Barber-Smith Joep van Liefland Jannis Varelas Temporary (literally) Gallery, Cologne mikepotterprojects.blogspot.com

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michail pirgelis

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Michail Pirgelis - Tresor

Aluminium, titan, lacquer, 245 x 175 x 14 cm, 2013 

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Speaking Garments is a new clothing label with an artful twist

wallpaper.com - Michelina Miccio founded her niche unisex label, Speaking Garments, at the start of 2017. ‘I was ready for a change,’ says the Cologne-based entrepreneur, who had previously worked as the German communications director for global brands Diesel and Replay. ‘The requirements of my role had become increasingly more commercial and I also had concerns about mass production,’ she notes. ‘So I decided to go my own way.’

While contemplating her next move, she became increasingly absorbed in contemporary art, and in particular, by the work of German sculptor Michail Pirgelis.

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