Lumen Travo gallery is delighted to present you the group show "Flowers, Candles, Crucifixes" that features the works of Ani Eloyan, Dianne Hagen and artist duo HENR.
Ani Eloyan’s (Armenia, 1988) works on paper are collages that stitch together elements from the world of cartoons, whose language confronts and questions the issues of sexuality, class, aesthetics and social acceptability.
Her artistic practice extends the notion of how humour can tell us something about our under- standing of that nature but as well the limit of our understanding. Like in “The failed mystic”, the energetic, playful and humorous scenarios she portrays pose serious questions and challenge our perception of recognizable popular comic characters.
Ani Eloyan graduated from the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 2010. Her striking graduation show with huge painted collages populated by comicstrip characters won the Fine Art Department Prize. Her work is represented in a number of collections including that of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and AKZO Nobel Nederland.
By sharing the same dark and provocative touch of artist Eloyan, Dianne Hagen's (The Netherlands, 1964) artistic practice evolves mainly around the notion of visceral instincts. Dianne proposes a series of artworks dealing with desires, death, suppression and power. The works have a surreal presence and provoke associations, which not necessarily lead you to one single truth or outcome. Hagen establishes a direct association between the object shown and the mental image it conveys. For this occasion she exhibits both drawings and sculptures.
Dianne Hagen studied at the Rietveld Akademie and followed the two-year residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Her works are in museums and private collections in Holland, Canada, America, Belgium, France and India.
With the title Dreamland, the artist duo HENR makes works that investigate the creation of a land dreamed.
In an increasingly globalised world, for many people the desire for a place, terrain or space of their own has been exponentially grown. More and more people wish to have an own recognizable culture with which they the can identify. Culture is what gives meaning to our surroundings and significance to a territory. It is the cultivation of an area that causes the existence of a mental space.