Mw We, a new religion

Jeremie Dhjan

July 10 - July 31 - 2007

Jeremie Dhjan, acrylic on canvas, 20056, 212cm x 160cm

«I’m a child of this world, but as an artist I consider myself an utopist; it is my job. Many problems of our modern life come from the fact that we don’t know anymore where the sacred is. As a result, there is this total disconnection from the past in our present life. For example, the simple idea of build a couple, becomes today a mission.»

Art Gallery Twenty Four is pleased to present French artist Jeremie Dhjan’s (born Paris 1973) exhibition of paintings «ME WE a new religion».

Jeremie Dhjan’s works are a manifestation of his early experiences as a child in Paris, drawing directly from the works of the Old and Modern Masters, and of his commitment to define his own identity, challenged by his background of parents of different religions.

The exhibition consists of seven large works of acrylic on canvas, made between 1999 and 2007. The paintings combine a pictorial sensitivity rooted in the traditional, with graffiti and street culture related means of expression such as the use of written messages as slogans that are the artist’s statement of universal spirituality.

The monumental canvases produce an immediate impact on the viewer thanks to the single archetype figures presented as icons, as is the case of the work «Ali» that portrays the former boxer as the crucified Jesus Christ; a naked woman in a position which is interpreted both as provocative and of giving birth, and an Eve with it's serpent that, bound to her iconography tradition, is presented as a popular media derived sex image.