Monday, March 21, 2011

Opening of the exhibition by Immo Jalass 'Distorted cities to rob and lie"

On Saturday March 26 at 17:00 the gallery RADAR Architecture & Art will start the exhibition 'Distorted Cities to Rob and Lie', showing digital paintings by the German artist Immo Jalass.

We cordially invite you to the opening of the show in the NEW LOCATION of the Radar Gallery in the Rozengracht 77A.



The images presented by the artist are imaginary landscapes, abstract expanses or shots of cities that seem to be taken on another planet.

Immo Jalass starts with a free composition, photos or parts of them, sometimes images of a city and details of buildings. In this sense he "steals" images from reality. Later on (in front of his "digital canvas") he begins to treat the images, to distort them, to cut them, to remove or add details, colors and elements from other photos or from god knows where. This process of "mystification" of the reality leads to the creation of an image that overtakes and goes beyond reality itself.

In his bewildered landscapes Jalass captures the grandeur of the space between the speed of light and the perpetual change and through the computer he freezes and crystallizes this vision into an image that takes on aspects of meditation and contemplation, or to put it in the words of the artist into "images that rest in the movement”.