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Hide and Seek
by Above Second Gallery
Location: Above Second Gallery
Artist(s): GROUP SHOW
Date: 26 Nov - 19 Dec 2015

This winter, Above Second invites you to enter the game Hide and Seek, presenting the works of the renowned Clet Abraham and Miguel Marquez aka. Michael Pederson.

Hide and Seek unites for the first time the Italian-based French street artist Clet and the Australian artist and photographer Miguel Marquez. The exhibition—like their art—aims to be mischievous and cheerful, critical and sharp. In it, Clet’s street signs converse with Miguel’s messages and create a dialogue that addresses social and political issues such as apathy, political control and human relationships.

The street artists Clet and Miguel play with the rigidity and anonymity of the roads and pavements of our cities. They hide messages and they seek our attention. With messages related to the everyday their art serves as wake up calls for the yawning passer-by.

Their messages and small changes in the street signs and crossing lines bring playfulness to the rigid rules, breaking the strict sense of norms. Their art therefore plays with the city, talks to the observer, brings us a smile and gets the game stARTed. Their art invites spectators to play hide and seek in the whimsical, chaotic and maze-like streets of Hong Kong.

Clet Abraham (France, b. 1966) is a painter, sculptor and street artist best known for his playful and ironic alterations of road signs. After graduating from the Fine Arts Institute of Rennes and moving to Rome to work as a furniture restaurateur, he works and lives in Florence where he transforms street-signs into whimsical images. Many of his works include provocative socio-political references such as the Crucified Christ posted on a ‘dead-end’ sign or images of a policeman in love. His works can be found in the streets of Rome, Florence, Milan, Paris, New York, London, Brussels and other European cities; and have been exhibited in galleries such as Artistic Rezo Gallery in Paris, the Graffik Gallery in London and Palazzo Strozzi in Florence among others. Several public and private institutions including Castello di Poppi in Arezzo, Banca Popolare del Lazio or Paris’s 13th arrondissement have commissioned his works.

Miguel Marquez (aka Michael Pederson) is a young Australian painter and photographer. He has a background in painting, music and film. He was drawn to street art for its public immediacy and the element of surprise. For the last two years, he has been hiding his signs and interventions amongst the cityscape, parklands and suburban streets of Sydney. He likes the idea of playfully interrupting the background blur of advertising and official signage.

His project “Museum of Everything” curates everyday objects: from abandoned items to cracks in the wall. He interacts not only with space but also objects that lie within it. His interactions have appeared in Australian, European and Latin-American blogs and online art newspapers such as Metro, The Huffington Post Australia and Yorokubu Spain.

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