Voxfire Gallery is pleased to invite you to “Beautiful Decay’’ the joint exhibition by Shann Larsson and Danny The G(r)eek. When the two artists set on exploring contemporary ideals of beauty and values of nature, they discover an imploring relationship between contradictory elements . . .

Light cannot exist without the dark, just as beauty cannot exist without decay. Modern beauty is an artificial concept. We no longer see nature as special nor do we respect its value. Shann Larsson and Danny the G(r)eek intend to portray this idea in a new show which they have named ‘Beautiful Decay’.

Hearts will attack and flowers will wither. Our current world is decaying. Not only is it being destroyed and misused. But the beauty we once found in the organic order of things has now shifted into a lust for creating machines.  We see vibrancy in the man-made objects instead of from the earth. We disregard a passion for genuine growth. We are confused and lost in a world wrapped up in an age where we would rather plug something in than plant something.

The show is a reflection of tomorrow’s downfall overtaking yesterday’s forest. Shann and Danny aim to gather a collection of work to open your eyes to a new age of a peace between the new and the old. To see beauty not only in the decadence but also in the decay.

Danny the G(r)eek
Merging organic and mechanic, edible and poisonous, metallic and wooden. Danny the G(r)eek finds himself searching for connections between nature and the artificial. His style of work is a collage of color and chaos that use everyday objects to express how cluttered and creative our planet is. Danny mainly focuses on the shapes, textures and patterns the objects make. However, subject quickly emerges as soon as he starts to put my brush on canvas. He only hopes the viewer has half as much fun looking at these pieces as he had making them.

Shann Larsson

In ‘Beautiful Decay’, Shann Larsson focuses on both the natural and the artificial world that are in the process of decay. Shann’s painting style is quite expressive, in both colour and technique whereby she attempts to pull the viewer into the pulse of her paintings. Unlike her previous work, Shann has broadened her range in colour and enhanced the realism of her subject matter for this show to mimic the little details she finds beautiful in all things lifeless. From the fragility and browning of a withered flower to the flaking roughness of a rusty machine, she finds the little traces of decay creating a sense of nostalgia and structural curiosity, but also understands a new colourful vibrancy and beauty.