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Death is the ultimate performance. While we wilt, others observe, testify, turn away.
DD: Of all the cities you visited, which is in your opinion the most “toxic” one?
Cheyco Leidmann: Each city, town or village has its own “toxicity”.
The vast contemporary art gallery La Lune En Parachute presents local as well as the greatest international contemporary artists.
Toxytt for example may not be a documentary or reportage project but the haunting images featured in it speak for themselves and sometimes hit you in the stomach. Disquieting and disturbing, these images can be viewed as strong statements about the society we are living in. Ora pro nobis.
The ghosts of the New Orleans jazz funeral wail an elegy of sorrow and glee.
The hidden traumas manifest in the blood of life. On this magic carpet ride, who is caged, who is free?
The bluest of blue skies cannot obscure the perverted beauty of desolation, of desperation as the glossy, bloodstained lips of the cracked-out prima ballerina bend into a smile while the rubble piles up.
The bells toll in the distance, the inescapable clanging.
The deafening keen of the sirens diminishes in the aftermath of the neon night, when bodies separate from corpses. Cheyco Leidmann is accompanied by his creative collaborator Ypsitylla von Nazareth.
La Lune En Parachute art contemporain, La Plomberie 88000 EPINAL
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TANTATRYSK
Exposition solo de Cheyco Leidmann, programmée du 03 février au 17 mars 2012 à La Lune En Parachute art contemporain , un espace de 600 m² au deux niveaux,à Epinal.
Eyes expose one angle of reality. Yet the most dramatic places are those where the streets never sleep.
DD: What kind of exhibitions do you like visiting and which artists or photographers inspire you? Though I guess that, rather than interpreting them as commentaries, we should maybe see them as strong statements about contemporary issues –about the insanity running wild in our world that pushes many people in our society to commit criminal acts because they feel trapped into grinding poverty and desperation.
Entitled ‘OXYcoNEXI’ the exhibition will feature surreal landscapes populated by grotesque characters. Last November the Brescia-based Wave Gallery in occasion of the Notte Bianca dell’Arte event featured 84 images from this set.
The 19 images featured are a direct result of this trilogy and are shown for the first time in Paris. I usually prefer to focus on my own vision and inspire other people with thought-provoking images rather than be inspired by others. I live where I like to live, in ‘Toxyttcity’!
Cheyco Leidmann’s ‘OXYcoNEXI’ is at the Galerie de l'Europe, 55 rue de Seine, Paris, 27th May – 26th June 2010.
Think subversive. Leather and latex protect the phallic cactus spikes.