Past
Events
Haris Epaminonda /
Daniel
Gustav Cramer
29 November 2006
- 6 February 2007
Images
Biography
Haris Epaminonda
Biography
Daniel
Gustav Cramer
HE "5, 13 x 9.5cm 2005/2006
Copyright /Haris Epaminoda
Courtesy / the artist &
DOMOBAAL,
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Untitled (mountain), from Trilogy
photograph on Kodak paper, 2006
Copyright /Daniel Gustav Cramer
Courtesy / the artist &
DOMOBAAL,
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“Why this passion for the origin? This search for first
forms, which is analogous to the search for the first man or
for the first manifestations of art, which we nonetheless
know to be ungraspable, if it is true that in one sense
there never was a beginning, not for anything nor at any
moment? In the past, the navigator who crossed “the line”,
the zero parallel, was under the impression that he found
himself at an exceptional moment and at a unique point, a
sacred zone, the passage over which symbolized a crucial
initiation. An imaginary line, a point that was
geographically null, but one that represented, precisely by
its nullity, the degree zero toward which one could say that
man strives, out of a need to attain an ideal landmark from
which, free of himself, of his prejudices, of his myths and
gods, he can return with a changed expression in his eyes
and a new affirmation." -
Maurice Blanchot
Cypriot artist Haris Epaminonda and German
artist Daniel Gustav Cramer will present their
first joint exhibition
at the Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art.
The opening of the exhibition will be held at the Pharos
Centre for Contemporary Art on 29 November 2006, at 8.00 pm.
Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art is hosting
the first joint exhibition of Haris Epaminonda and Daniel
Gustav Cramer, two exciting emerging artists who have never
formally worked together, but have yet maintained an
exploratory open dialogue investigating issues – connections
and dualisms – that arise from their individual practices.
The two artists first met at the Royal
College of Art, London, where they both took their MA in
2003. Their careers also have Cyprus as a connecting point:
Haris Epaminonda grew up in Nicosia and currently lives and
works in Nicosia and London, while Daniel Gustav Cramer,
based in Berlin and London, has previously worked
extensively in Cyprus while completing his work Trilogy.
At the Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art,
Epaminonda will show a series from her collages and a video,
based on her personal archives of found imagery. This work
has marked the beginning of an ongoing project where the
artist collects and reassembles both found images and
footage, thus the use of various forms of collage, video,
books, etc in forming the work. Cramer will be showing
photographic works from his ongoing work Trilogy
(Woodland, Underwater, Mountain), a work which has, over the
past four years, developed into an archive of images of the
world bereft of any human presence.
The artists
Haris Epaminonda’s work takes the form of
collage, moving image, drawing, photography, books and
objects. While still at the Royal College of Art, Epaminonda
exhibited her video Nemesis 52 at the 21st
World Wide Video Festival in Amsterdam, the Archimede
Staffolini gallery in Nicosia, ‘Peripheral Visions’ at the
Cork Film Festival, and was selected for curated projects in
London, Berlin, Paris, China, Rotterdam and Greece.
Recently, work by Haris Epaminonda was exhibited in ‘From
the Collection – recent acquisitions from the Deutsche Bank
Collection’ in the VIP Lounge at the Frieze Fair, London
2006. This follows a successful first solo show in London
and selection for ‘East International 2006’, UK.
Daniel Gustav Cramer exhibited four woodland
photographs as part of his final exhibition, which marked
the start of an extended project which has since developed
into a substantial personal archive called Trilogy,
the constituent parts being: Woodland, Underwater,
Mountain. This project continues to grow and a selection
of this archive has been exhibited widely, in solo shows in
Casa dos Dias Da Agua in Lisbon (catalogue published by
Kunststiftung NRW), Van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne and
DOMOBAAL, London. Selected group shows and open submission
award exhibitions that have shown a selection of Trilogy
include: Bloomberg New Contemporaries, UK, 2003;
Guardian/Observer Hodge Award, London, 2003; Förderpreis,
Westfälischer Kunstverein, 2006; Die Liebe zum Licht 2006,
Germany (touring). Daniel Gustav Cramer is currently a
winner of the Jerwood Photography award. He has a solo show
opening at Galleria Carla Sozzani in Milan, Italy this
December. He will have his third solo show in London in
spring 2007 followed by a solo presentation at the Goethe
Institute London.
Pharos Centre of Contemporary Art will be
publishing a fully illustrated catalogue which will also
document this exhibition, including an essay specially
commissioned by Dr Jonathan Miles, designed by Herman Lelie.
Both artists are represented by DOMOBAAL,
London
www.domobaal.com