Art Fairs - Maus Contemporary

Travis Somerville's new series The Lost Voices addresses England's Home Children Program, which started in 1869, and which sent over 100,000 children to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa. Although starting out as a legitimate charity to help orphaned children, it clearly turned quickly into a force of providing child labor for these countries.

Somerville's large scale installation consists of drawings on various media, including on paper, children's christening gowns, and other found objects and ephemera. Images, mostly children's portraits, are sourced from actual photographs of these children, as well as through appropriation and by reproducing poster images from the Waifs and Strays Society of London.

The artist also incorporates images of Syrian refugee children - some currently living in France and trying to immigrate to England. By using found, vintage objects, the artist seeks to tap into our collective historical memory, using it as a catalyst for discussion on current issues.

Aggtelek is the artistic project of Xandro Vallès (Barcelona 1978) and Gema Perales (Barcelona 1982). They live and work between Barcelona and Brussels.

The main interest in their work lays on creative processes highly focused on the investigation of a theoretical development of art production. These fearless, hyper-productive and disengaged processes are regarded as a way to show the continuous thoughts, ideas or daily dialogues that have opened the path for new works interacting in a diversity of disciplines, such as performances, sculptures, videos, texts or installations.

This duo feels deeply committed to ideas of their time. For them, Art is related to life, expressed by a vigorous and forceful vitality within the work. This liveliness is many times provoked by a challenge of the limits of the politically correct often through a humorous critique of human condition.

Volta10 Basel 2014	June 16 - 21, 2014 Volta Basel 2014 Clayton COLVIN Eugene James MARTIN Odili Donald ODITA Leslie SMITH III
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Pulse NY 2014	May 8 - 11, 2014 PULSE NY 2014 Clayton COLVIN Charles LUTZ Leslie SMITH III Travis SOMERVILLE
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Volta New York 2014	March 6 - March 9, 2014 VOLTA NY 2014 Willie Cole
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