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BRAZILIAN CULTURE MONTH DETANICO & LAIN 25 October 2007, 8:00 pm
The
Pharos Centre for Contemporary
Art
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The Honorary Consulate of Brazil in Cyprus and the Pharos Trust present the book launch of the work of Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain following their exhibition After Utopia at the Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, in October 2006. Working within the interstices of fine art and graphic design, in addition to possessing a strong collaborative drive, Detanico & Lain have developed a practice based on the playful displacement of meaning. They do this via the language of the information age, but their wit allows them to avoid the sole reliance on the complexity of technological means. Instead they make use of simple procedures in order to produce powerful visual poetics. In their interweaving of form and content, which strongly relies on language, they evoke the legacy of concrete art. However, their poetic approach owes nothing to nostalgia as it draws on irony and irreverence while the complexity of issues that it evokes relate undoubtedly to our contemporary world. The book includes the works Flatland (2003), Pilha (2003, 2004 and 2005), Plaf (2004), The Waves (2005), The World Justified (2004) and Utopia (2001), using video, stills from video, installation, photography and digital files.
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