Exhibition: „last movie” Ozmo (Gionata Gesi) and Mariusz Waras
7 August 2010-17 September 2010
Gdansk City Gallery 1, Piwna 27/29
Opening: Friday, 6 August 2010, 7 p.m.- Concert by Tymon & The Transistors „Bigos Heart”, Courtyard of Art ( ggm1)
gallery opening hours: Tue-Thu– 11-17, Fri-Sat–11-20, Sun 11-17
...free admission
l"ast
movie" exhibition is a fifth “dialogue” showed at Gdansk City Gallery.
This time we invited two artists who know each other's work very well-
Ozmo ( Gionata Gesi ) from Milan and Mariusz Waras from Tricity.
Both
artists are very versatile. They draw, paint, photograph and are very
active in street-art. Recently Waras apart from his two dimensions
works started creating quasi sculpture and architectural projects. But
the thing that both of them are mostly renowned for is creating murales
all around the world. Their works are very characteristic in technique
and meaning and those who have come across their murales before can
recognize them immediately. For the exhibition at ggm1 they created a
gigantic painting on a wall of Neptun Cinema. It shows a machine in
pieces ( by Waras) and a quote from Michelangelo's “Last Judgement” (
by Ozmo). It is a very meaningful scene where instead of a judging
Christ we have a machinelike construction that looks like a gigantic
clock's mechanism. Is it a reference to the condition of modern world,
or maybe to the fact that the Neptun Cinema will be closed and
forgotten like other special places of postwar Gdansk? Or maybe the
artists were inspired to create a pompous, baroque situation in a place
that is not often visited by tourists even though it's located near
such monumental buildings as St. Mary's Church or the Main Town Hall?
Any interpretation is possible.