There Are Two Sides to Every Coin, and Two Sides to Your Face

Galerie Xippas is pleased to launch the 2011-2012 season with “There are two sides to every coin, and two sides to your face”, the first exhibition curated by new gallery director, Carlos Cardenas.

The exhibiting artists hail from widely disparate geographical locations: Europe, the US, Latin-America, the Middle-east; represent a wide array of aesthetic practices: painting, sculpture, installation, film, photography, sound, poetry; and range in career status from relatively fresh young things, to art historical heavy-weights.

The title to the exhibition alludes to cold, hard fact … but employs literary tropes that allude to ambiguity, double-speak, irony, contradiction, and confusion; perhaps even hypocrisy …

Despite the consciously slippery propositions that may come about in the constructed narratives between and across the different works, there are however, some prisms through which bits of light may be seen: symmetry and its cousins, reflection, opacity, gravity, defiance of gravity, liquid architecture (the ability to walk through walls, etc.), radical social discomfort and the letting-go (“lâcher prises”), and finally, the all-but-entirely-forgotten great project of Modernism.