Munchies Art Club is pleased to share with you the exhibition by Greek artists Denis and Marjano Kapurani.
The Album: A Multilingual Visual Symphony of Hope and Resilience in Turbulent Times
Denis and Marjano Kapurani, Maze and Haze Careful Their HI-DE-HO, 2022, Oil on wood, 63cm x 52cm | Photography: Marc-Pascal Berger
The Album | DomagkAteliers, halle50, Munich
Presenting the artists Denis and Marjano Kapurani
Curated by Tinatin Ghughunishvili-Brück
On view till: 17.03.2023
Denis and Marjano Kapurani, The Album, Exhibition View, Halle 50 / DomagkAteliers, 2023 | Photography: Marc-Pascal Berger
For the second time TGB Art Projects presents an exhibition of the Greek artist duo Denis and Marjano Kapurani in Munich.
Denis and Marjano Kapurani, Zero Steps Klimax , 2022, Oil on wood, 50 x 40cm | Photography: Marc-Pascal Berger
The exhibition presents for the first time selected works by the Kapurani brothers from 2021, 2022 and 2023, created during the last turbulent period marked by pandemic and war.
Denis and Marjano Kapurani, A.N.N.A., 2023, Laser printer, Acrylic, Nacre, 60 x 40cm | Photography: Marc-Pascal Berger
On the one hand, the title of the exhibition "The Album" (from the Latin "Albus" "white" or also "a book with empty pages") suggests a possible, hopeful new beginning after the cathartic crisis.
Denis and Marjano Kapurani, The Album, Exhibition View, Halle 50 / DomagkAteliers, 2023 | Photography: Marc-Pascal Berger
On the other hand, the title refers to a common practice in music, the compilation of several musical titles on the basis of a particular collection of the artistic examination of a certain period and of external and internal circumstances.
Denis and Marjano Kapurani, NOI ESTI VLACHS, 2022, Oil on wood, 30 x 25cm | Photography: Marc-Pascal Berger
Typical for the musical and rather unusual for the visual examination of different contents, motifs and protagonists is a stylistic diversity, to which the artists respond and express accordingly during the creation of an album.
Denis and Marjano Kapurani, KIXEH, 2022, Oil on canvas, Spiegel, 50 x 40cm | Photography: Marc-Pascal Berger
The Kapurani brothers have chosen this principle of multilingualism of forms and styles for this exhibition also in the visual "translation".
Denis and Marjano Kapurani, No Thrones For The Fallen Kings, 2022, Oil on wood, Vitrail, Ceramic, Zirkon, 50 x 40cm | Photography: Marc-Pascal Berger
Not as an experiment, but as an individual homage to each pictorial object, which should also ideally remain individual and unique in perception and interpretation.
Denis and Marjano Kapurani, The Album, Exhibition View, Halle 50 / DomagkAteliers, 2023 | Photography: Marc-Pascal Berger
With this intention, for example, the portrait of "Elizabeth from Vyshgorod", a Ukrainian friend of the Kapurani brothers, was created in a realistic manner in classical chiaroscuro to do justice to her expression and history in the current context, while the black ego mirror, which at the same time refers to the origin of abstract painting and the ingenious rewriting of iconography by Malevich, is entirely dedicated to the concept and materiality.
Denis and Marjano Kapurani, Reserved Space For Your Ego's Portrait, 2022, Ceramic on wood, 30 x 20cm | Photography: Marc-Pascal Berger
The artists have developed musical compositions to accompany the selected works in the exhibition, which are intended to underscore both the conceptual structure of the exhibition and the respective pictorial mood and will be heard in the exhibition.
Denis and Marjano Kapurani, The Album, Exhibition View, Halle 50 / DomagkAteliers, 2023 | Photography: Marc-Pascal Berger
Press text:
The title of the exhibition "The Album" (from the Latin "Albus" "white" or also "a book with empty pages") suggests a possible, hopeful new beginning after the cathartic crisis.
Denis and Marjano Kapurani, Einsiedler aus Sibirien, 2022, Oil on wood, Keramik, Vitrail, 60 x 50cm | Photography: Marc-Pascal Berger
It also refers to a common practice in music, the compilation of several musical titles on the basis of a particular collection of the artistic examination of a certain period and of external and internal circumstances.
Denis and Marjano Kapurani, Nova Fantômas, 2022, Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm | Photography: Marc-Pascal Berger