Leo Gabin
65 Collages, 2012
Leo Gabin
31 Flavors, 2011
Leo Gabin
Cousin Sega, 2011
Leo Gabin
Tracks on Making, 2011
Leo Gabin
Street Turns Into Strip Club With Naked Girl Wallin Out On Top Of A Car Then Gets Knocked Out Twice By A Dude, 2011
Leo Gabin
Street Turns Into Strip Club With Naked Girl Wallin Out On Top Of A Car Then Gets Knocked Out Twice By A Dude, 2011
Leo Gabin
Juice Flag, 2012
Leo Gabin
Okay With Me, 2012
Leo Gabin
Cleaning, 2012
Leo Gabin
Girls Room Dance, 2011
Leo Gabin
Stackin, 2012
Leo Gabin
Teacherz and Bleacherz, 2011
Leo Gabin
Surfer Ho, 2011
Leo Gabin
With Me, 2012
Leo Gabin
Pancake Brawl At Denny's, 2012
Leo Gabin
Scrapping After Drillin, 2012
Leo Gabin
A Must Lie Situation, 2012
Leo Gabin
Got Bandz, 2012
Leo Gabin
Drink It Up, 2012
Leo Gabin
Drink It Up, 2012
Leo Gabin
Laugh, Love, Dream, 2012
Leo GABIN
Whatever is Clever
Peres Projects Mitte, Berlin
April 27 – June 23, 2012
On the occasion of Berlin Gallery Weekend 2012 Peres Projects is very proud to present Whatever is Clever,, a solo exhibition by Belgium based Leo Gabin. Leo Gabin (Lieven Deconinck, Gaëtan Begerem and Robin De Vooght) have worked as a collective since the early 2000’s in media such as video, painting, drawing and sculpture and have taught as a collective at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent where they received their Fine Art degrees.
Leo Gabin take inspiration from the proliferation of user generated media on the internet and the until now undefined space straddling the public and private realms. Themes of sex, violence and celebrity which dominate these users’ experiences are filtered though Gabin’s collage based aesthetic and confrontational means of production. Gabin captures images from their video mash ups to silkscreen onto their paintings and ultimately incorporate the acetate used to create the silkscreens in their collages and totem like sculptures.
This recyclical use of imagery and media draws on the very function of social media and the ownerless, shared content which it consists of. Created in a singular moment of violent, collaborative exertion, these works shed light on the social media space and our collective identities within it.For their first solo show at the gallery, Leo Gabin will present a new body of work consisting of paintings, collages, sculpture and video works.
Whatever is Clever will be on view at Peres Projects Berlin (Mitte) from April 27th through June 23rd, 2012.
Opening hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11am – 6pm and by appointment.
For further information or reproductions please contact Margherita Belaief at margherita@peresprojects.com or Nick Koenigsknecht at nick@peresprojects.com or please call us at +49 30 275 950770.