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[ AFFINITY I Senses & Sensuality ]

CATHY DEVYLDER | FRÉDÉRIQUE JOUCLA | LAILA MURAYWID* | FRANCA RAVET | PIERRE AMROUCHE | ALAIN DARRÉ | THORSTEN KERN | and a selection of works by NOBUYOSHI ARAKI | Laila Muraywid, in collaboration with the Imane Farès Gallery, Paris

Fine Art Studio presents AFFINITY 1, an exhibition devoted to the senses as captured in diverse mediums (photography, painting and drawing). Beauty, subtlety and illusion are key to the poetry of the works shown whether they primarily express aesthetic sensibility or provoke sensation. The universe created by the eight artists is governed by the agitation of the senses, and mirage-like visions and insidious rhythms characterize the exhibition AFFINITY 1, which is to be the first in a trilogy.

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Close to cinematic art, Cathy Devylder's paintings evoke the opening or closing of the world through the use of optical and kinetic illusions produced by combinations of vibrating lines and distorting effects.

"When it comes to what's true and what's not, I prefer to play with what's not." Frédérique Joucla's canvases are bodies, whether her own or other peoples. The artist uses strategies of make-believe as paths into the imaginary.

Laila Muraywid's work is marked by a pronounced taste for intensity and secrecy; a subtle dialectic between appearance and disappearance; games with masks and look-alikes. The faces at the heart of each picture are half-hidden behind veils, bits of lace that evoke perforations, lacerations and scars.

Taking a single identity fingerprint as his starting point and reproducing it repeatedly, Franca Ravet questions the creation, transmission and destruction of personal information that occurs throughout each of our lives.

Pierre Amrouche works in accordance with his belief that the body transcends the idea of beauty, combining instantaneous images with both rigour and sensuality of form to produce atmospheric dream-like photographs.

In his photographic work, Alain Darré captures the essence of heterogeneous realities. He works on negatives, combining techniques that produce violent colour contrasts, invoking a playful yet exalted vision that often leans towards the sacred.

Thorsten Kern's macro-photographic approach draws out the aesthetic potential of food. The series 'Functional forms' uses the connection between texture and intensity of colour to evoke taste.

AFFINITY 1 will also be presenting a series of Polaroids by Nobuyoshi Araki.

EXHIBITION 19th JANUARY > 11th MARCH 2012

Tuesday - Saturday | 11AM - 6PM and on appointment

PREVIEW 18th JANUARY 2012 FROM 6PM | PRESS PREVIEW WEDNESDAY 18th JANUARY FROM 11AM

SOKEY EDORH [ Selected works ]

In the context of BRUNEAF Winter B Sablon

19 January > 4 February 2012

Contact:

Tel : +32 2 514 25 92

Mail : fas@fineartstudio.be

SOKEY EDORH [ Selected works ]

Le repos de la chèvre | 2008

ALAIN DARRÉ [ Bacchanale | 2009 ]

FRANCE - Lives and works in Rennes

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THORSTEN KERN [ Functional form 10 | 2011 ]

GERMANY - ALGERIA - Lives and works in Cologne

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CATHY DEVYLDER [ Mirage II | 2011 ]

BELGIUM - Lives and works in Brussels

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FRÉDÉRIQUE JOUCLA [ Peinture corporelle | 1997 ]

FRANCE - Lives and works in Toulouse

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LAILA MURAYWID [ The order of things 2 | 2009 ]

SYRIA - Lives and works in Paris

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FRANCA RAVET [ Evolution de la trace mémorielle Y n°4/7 | 2010 ]

BELGIUM - Lives and works in Brussels

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PIERRE AMROUCHE [ Venus 46 | 2008 ]

FRANCE - ALGERIA - Lives and works in Lomé

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Happy 2012 !

Happy New Year 2012!

BAGGIO | [Untitled] | 2008
SOPHIE TANGIRA | A nickel | 2007-2011