VARIOUS & GOULD | WANTED WITCHES - WITCHES WANTED
Channel: OPENWALLSGALLERY
Date: 2013-10-27

OPEN WALLS Gallery cordially invites you to Wanted Witches opening on November 16, 2013. There will be an introduction speech given by Anne Wizorek at 20:30 and the evening will be completed with music and drinks to make it a date.

For this new series, Various & Gould portray a selection of known, living and nonconformist people who cross borders and act as pioneers on controversial social issues. The idea that these people might have been persecuted and burned as witches in earlier times, is a mere speculation here. But the fact that they still have to fight for their ideas, their freedom, their dignity or in some cases even their lives, even today, is indeed a reality.

In this respect, the Wanted Witches series can be seen as a homage to the portrayed people and as a reference to the intolerance of today's supposedly enlightened society where free thinking people are still being scapegoated and demonized by the public.
During the process of printing these portraits, a particular color was used that allows - as if by witchcraft - the ignition of matches on the actual artworks. By using these matches and candles the observers are invited come in contact with the images themselves.

Exhibition on display: Saturday November 16th -- Saturday December 2nd
Opening hours: Tuesdays to Saturdays, from 13:00 to 19:00
Admission: Free

Vernissage: November 16th from 19:00 onwards
Introduction speech Anne Wizorek at 20:30

More information:
variousandgould.com
openwallsgallery.com/artist/various-gould