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YVON LAMBERT NEW YORK PRESENTS:
MILTOS MANETAS
January 21 2006-February 18 2006
Opening January 21 2006
Yvon Lambert New York is pleased to announce the exhibition Dogs and Cables by Miltos Manetas.
The exhibition will present two new paintings and three Websites. It will also include the Website titled Jesus Swimming (http://www.jesusswimming.com), which has been exhibited at Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris in 2000 and the 2005 Valencia Biennial in Valencia Spain.
Miltos Manetas is a painter of contemporary life. He is one of the first artists to use computers, videogames, and contemporary lifestyle as his model. He paints joysticks, computers, keyboards, cables, laptops, videocassettes, shoes, dogs, and televisions. He paints people interacting with these contemporary objects in everyday activities: hands clutching a joystick, bodies relaxing beside a laptop or people stretched across the floor talking on mobile phones. Manetas abstracts the concrete forms of the everyday realities with a soft color palette and flowing brushwork.
Beginning from his early work, Powerbook (1995), to the latest Internet Paintings (2001-2005), and Girls in Nike (2005), his work is a document of the chaotic sensation of living and interacting with the physical evidence of technological development. According to Lev Manovich, ”the fact that information society is difficult to represent visually does not mean that it cannot be done in principle. So far, only a few artists have systematically tried to do this, and Manetas is one of them. You would think that more artists would want to represent what the humans actually do today most of the time: stare into computer screens and their mobile phones; type on keyboards; play computer games, and operate various other human-computer interfaces. And yet he is the only contemporary painter who made this reality the focus on his paintings.”
In 2000, Manetas presented the new art movement titled “Neen.” “Neenstars” are considered an undefined generation of visual artists, some belong to the contemporary art world while others are creators, web designers, videogame directors, and animators. “Neenstars” believe that Websites function not only as a new media space but can exist as a work of art.
For further information, please contact Lindsay Key at 212.242.3611 or by email at: lindsay@yvon-lambert.com. Please visit us on our website at http://www.yvon-lambert.com.
