PERES PROJECTS Berlin
Leo GABIN
Lieven Deconinck, Gaëtan Begerem and Robin De Vooght
Collective since 2000
Born in Ghent, Belgium
Live and work in Ghent, Belgium
Current Solo Exhibition:
Whatever Is Clever, Peres Projects Berlin, Mitte, DE
April 27 - June 23, 2012
Current Group Exhibition:
2012
Collaborations & Interventions, CCA Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca, ES
April 7 - September 9, 2012
ccandratx.com
Upcoming Solo Exhibition:
Leo Gabin, Cultural Centre Bruges, Bruges, BE
September 2012
Upcoming Group Exhibition:
2012
From here on, produced by the Rencontres d'Arles and curated by Clément Cheroux, Joan Fontcuberta, Erik Kessels, Martin Parr and Joachim Schmid, Foto Musuem (FoMu), Antwerp, BE
June 22 - September 30, 2012
fotomuseum.be
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2011
Get That Patty Cake Going, ReMAP 3, Peres Projects, Athens, GR
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2012
Flash Mob, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, USA
In your face, SHOWStudio Gallery, London, UK
The new disorder, curated by Michael Bevilacqua and Katerina Nikou, The Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, GR
Into the surface, Brand New Gallery, Milan, IT
2011
Dirt Don't Hurt, curated by Bill Saylor, Jolie Aide Gallery, Philadelphia, US
Sticks and Stones, Peres Projects Mitte, Berlin, DE
Leo GABIN have worked as a collective since the early 2000's in a variety of media including video, painting, drawing and sculpture. Leo GABIN teaches as a collective at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, where they received their Fine Art degrees.
Leo GABIN take inspiration from the internet's proliferation of media images, particularly the wealth of information that uncomfortably straddles the private and public realm, and harvest content from this never ending morass. The work and methodology implicitly explores the transience and capriciousness that underpins youth culture. References to sex, violence and celebrity, nestle among a canny social critique that manifests through an aesthetic which combines the influence of the street art they were exposed to as teens with a consciousness of art world trends.
Not limiting their practice to one medium Leo GABIN's approach is indicative of a media savvy generation. Traditional barriers between mediums are broken down as they work across video, digital media, drawing, print, painting and sculpture. Their influences collide and fashion spreads become quasi-expressionist paintings, trashy headlines parade across canvases and 'It Girls' appear to mutate into sculptures.
Leo GABIN push romantic notions of artistic inspiration aside and create works that use aggregated social media content to provoke the imagination. In doing so, the works that emerge expose the often unsavory nature of the content that our colleagues, friends and teenagers are openly putting online.
Lieven Deconinck, Gaëtan Begerem and Robin De Vooght
Collective since 2000
Born in Ghent, Belgium
Live and work in Ghent, Belgium
Current Solo Exhibition:
Whatever Is Clever, Peres Projects Berlin, Mitte, DE
April 27 - June 23, 2012
Current Group Exhibition:
2012
Collaborations & Interventions, CCA Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca, ES
April 7 - September 9, 2012
ccandratx.com
Upcoming Solo Exhibition:
Leo Gabin, Cultural Centre Bruges, Bruges, BE
September 2012
Upcoming Group Exhibition:
2012
From here on, produced by the Rencontres d'Arles and curated by Clément Cheroux, Joan Fontcuberta, Erik Kessels, Martin Parr and Joachim Schmid, Foto Musuem (FoMu), Antwerp, BE
June 22 - September 30, 2012
fotomuseum.be
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2011
Get That Patty Cake Going, ReMAP 3, Peres Projects, Athens, GR
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2012
Flash Mob, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, USA
In your face, SHOWStudio Gallery, London, UK
The new disorder, curated by Michael Bevilacqua and Katerina Nikou, The Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, GR
Into the surface, Brand New Gallery, Milan, IT
2011
Dirt Don't Hurt, curated by Bill Saylor, Jolie Aide Gallery, Philadelphia, US
Sticks and Stones, Peres Projects Mitte, Berlin, DE
Leo GABIN have worked as a collective since the early 2000's in a variety of media including video, painting, drawing and sculpture. Leo GABIN teaches as a collective at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, where they received their Fine Art degrees.
Leo GABIN take inspiration from the internet's proliferation of media images, particularly the wealth of information that uncomfortably straddles the private and public realm, and harvest content from this never ending morass. The work and methodology implicitly explores the transience and capriciousness that underpins youth culture. References to sex, violence and celebrity, nestle among a canny social critique that manifests through an aesthetic which combines the influence of the street art they were exposed to as teens with a consciousness of art world trends.
Not limiting their practice to one medium Leo GABIN's approach is indicative of a media savvy generation. Traditional barriers between mediums are broken down as they work across video, digital media, drawing, print, painting and sculpture. Their influences collide and fashion spreads become quasi-expressionist paintings, trashy headlines parade across canvases and 'It Girls' appear to mutate into sculptures.
Leo GABIN push romantic notions of artistic inspiration aside and create works that use aggregated social media content to provoke the imagination. In doing so, the works that emerge expose the often unsavory nature of the content that our colleagues, friends and teenagers are openly putting online.