``Repetition and Inflections'' -- New works by Ade Adekola.Entertainment Editors/News Editors MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2004 Cafe Borrone is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Bay Area conceptual artist and contemporary photographer, Ade Adekola. The exhibition will open April 19th, 2004 and continue through June 6th, 2004. The opening reception will take place at Cafe Borrone -- 1010 El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
For this exhibition, Adekola will present his recent series of work "Repetition and Inflections" along side his "Pixilated pix·i·lat·ed or pix·il·lat·ed adj. 1. Behaving as if mentally unbalanced; very eccentric. 2. Whimsical; prankish. 3. Slang Intoxicated; drunk. Ensemblage" and "Transformation" series. This exhibition marks the artists new direction. Adekola is better known for his interactive installations and has exhibited installations along side British artists A partial list of artists active in Britain, arranged chronologically (but alphabetically within any year). Born before 1700
Yinka Shonibare MBE was born in London to Nigerian parents. At the age of three they moved to Lagos, the most populous city in Nigeria, where he grew up. and Mark Wallinger. Adekola's new work explores an interplay of images and worded captions to create paradoxical moments where viewers are seduced into reflection and encouraged to shift their perceptions. Using techniques of digital manipulation, he alters the reality of captured images -- the Inflections -- without changing their composition in order to invite viewers to take a fresh look, and change the familiar way in which they consume photography. Adekola uses Repetition as a means of creating paradoxes, in his words: "Repetition is fascinating. It is on the one hand an expression of the mundane and predictable, a desperate and manic desire for consistency. Then, on the other it is a means of creating a phase shift, like the rhythmic pulsing of a mantra, a calling to look beyond the obvious." Adekola's art is conceptual; it weaves visual metaphors with memes. Works like "Crosshaired Rhapsody (1) A subscription-based online music service from RealNetworks that gives users unlimited access to a vast library of major and independent label music. Within a single interface, Rhapsody provides access to streaming music, Internet radio and extensive music information and " juxtapose jux·ta·pose tr.v. jux·ta·posed, jux·ta·pos·ing, jux·ta·pos·es To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. elements of the violent (bullet holes) within the context of the sublime (presented as a flowerbed of color). Beyond the concepts captured in each piece, the works are visually seductive and framed in a unique presentation. |
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