The opening of this new show is on Wednesday 3.3.2010 from 17:00 at Stoa Gallery.
From the press release:
The exhibition Eyes Wide Open lends in Stoa gallery. It is like an echo of Nicolas Schevin previous show in Kluuvi gallery. A selection of recent drawings from the previous show is presented alongside three new ones while the video piece Sea of Grass is re-introduced six years after its first appearance in Helsinki.
Once again the viewer’s ability to see is moved into a realm of broken images stranded after a hypothetical disaster.Nicolas Schevin’s work is charged with notions such as the destruction, the fragmented, the ruins and the survivor. Therefore the relation one can establish with these works is always insecure and evasive. While the drawing exposes its wounds as unique treasures, the meaning itself is in reconstruction and the viewer’s help –or imagination– is often needed. Within this context there is no hierarchy and contradicting elements are brought together to improvise.
Nicolas Schevin Amazon (pencil on paper,84 x 112 cm, 2010)
