ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <!-- saved from url=(0040)http://www.thepharostrust.org/ondine.htm --> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>BCM_Book_launch</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2180" name=GENERATOR> <style> <!-- h1 {margin-bottom:.0001pt; page-break-after:avoid; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial Narrow"; font-weight:bold; margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:0cm} h6 {margin-top:12.0pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; font-weight:bold} h5 {margin-top:12.0pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:0cm; font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic} --> </style> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <CENTER> <TABLE cellSpacing=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="282"> <p align="left"><font color="#003366"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> <FONT face=Arial> <img border="0" src="Gallery%20view%202.JPG" width="333" height="226" align="left"></FONT></span></b></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white"> <font face="Arial" color="#003366"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><font size="2">&nbsp;</font></b></span></font><p>&nbsp;</TD> <TD width="684"> <p align="left" style="margin-right: 350px"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> <FONT face=Arial>BRAZILIAN CULTURE MONTH</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><br> </FONT></span><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR></FONT><FONT face=Arial> <span lang="EN-GB">BOOK LAUNCH</span></FONT></b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 350px"> <font face="Arial"><b><span lang="EN-US">D</span></b></font><b><font face="Arial">ETANICO &amp; LAIN</font></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-right:350px"> <font face="Arial" color="#003366" size="2"> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: 700">25 October 2007, 8:00 pm</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-right:350px"> <font face="Arial" color="#003366"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><font size="2">The </font></b></span></font> <span style="background-position: 0 0" lang="en-gb"><b> <font face="Arial" size="2" color="#003366">Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art<br> 24 Dem. Severis Ave. Nicosia</font></b></span><p>&nbsp;</TD> <TR> <TD colspan="2"> <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><b> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt">The Honorary Consulate of Brazil in Cyprus </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt"><b> and the </b></span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-weight: 700">Pharos Trust present the book launch of the work of Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain following their exhibition <i>After Utopia</i> at the Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, in October 2006.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt">Working within the interstices of fine art and graphic design, in addition to possessing a strong collaborative drive, <b>Detanico &amp; Lain</b> 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.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white"><font face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt">The book includes the works <i> Flatland</i> (2003), <i>Pilha</i> (2003, 2004 and 2005), <i>Plaf</i> (2004), <i>The Waves</i> (2005), <i>The World Justified</i> (2004) and <i>Utopia </i> (2001), using video, stills from video, installation, photography and digital files.</span></font></p> <p style="margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt"> &nbsp;</TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></BODY></HTML>