Emilia Sunyer : Skin Deep

7 Feb-22 Mar 2014

Overview

The second solo exhibition of London-based Venezuelan artist, Emilia Sunyer at Maddox Gallery, London. This exhibition will allow a deeper understanding of the artist’s practice by showing early works from twenty years ago, alongside more recent and new works. Opening the exhibition will be an installation of 5 paintings on poster from 1994. This body of work, being exhibited for the first time, is entitled ‘Skin Deep’ and depicts iconic images from an omnipresent cigarette advertising campaign from 1980s Venezuela. The source images are of perfect bodies, sunshine and fun on to which the artist leaves her mark – disrupting and obscuring the view with suggestive and organic imagery . By doing this, Sunyer is not only altering the apparent images of ‘perfection’, but she is also asking the viewer to look more closely at the marks made by the artist and their juxtaposition on this recognisable mass media.