Exhibition „Borrowed Time“ curated by ALEXIS CALLADO
On November 28th in 2024 the exhibition „Borrowed Times“ with great works by the artist ABDUL VAS opened with a beautiful vernissage at the Madrid gallery E CIENTO VEINTE. His works can be admired in the art space at Calle Antonio Maura 18 until February 8th in 2025. For ABDUL VAS, the overwhelming power of AC/DC’s music has displaced linear and routine time. The Australian band’s „riffs“ have imbued Vas‘ artistic work with a daring, overwhelming and timeless sensibility. For music, that mysterious form of time. “Another poem of the gifts”, a quote by Jorge Luis Borges. Thanks to this lucidity, ABDUL VAS has decided to portray a set of writers (Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner) who managed, in his view, to create in a space that has not been touched by time or the adversities of fleeting fashions; writers who inhabit a dimension where delicacy and loyalty to aesthetics intertwine with the greatness of music from a time lent by eternity.
His exhibition also includes portraits of NFL players (Tom Brady, Barry Sanders, Jerry Rice) who (re)present that fragile balance between transience and greatness; lives accelerated to the fullest by an insatiable mechanism revealing to us that time is a gift that must be returned. The more one ascends to the heights of athletic success and achievement, something escapes him. They are specters that fade along with their excellence, though they survive in the memories of fans. ABDUL VAS unifies these three visual themes – writers, NFL players and members of the rock band AC/DC – with a refined pictorial finesse that bolsters the central idea conveyed by the exhibition. Ther artist points to the uncertainty born of the fact that the temporal gives us the illusion of a beginning, and only in this way do the mysteries of creativity and existence converge in us. ABDUL VAS was born in 1981. He lives and works between Madrid and Ho Chi Minh City. Vas’s works have been exhibited in the United States, Latin America, Asia and Europe and has been included in several international collections. His works have been included in group shows Shibuya Center Gai in Tokyo, The Composing Rooms in Berlin, Amp Tokyo Space, White Box in New York, Beo Project in Belgrade, Arcadia Missa gallery in London, the Matadero in Madrid, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, the 2009 Beijing Biennale, among others.
Exhibition Poster
INFOTHEK
Artist: ABDUL VAS
Email: info@abdulvasacdc.com
Website: https://www.abdulvasacdc.com
Website: https://www.acdcstage.com
Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/AbdulVasInc
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abdulvasacdc
Article: https://vagabundler.com/painter/abdul-vas
Gallery: E CIENTO VEINTE
Opening Hours: Tuesday till Friday from 11 a.m. till 6 p.m. and Saturday till Monday from 11 a.m. till 2 p.m.
Website: https://ecientoveinte.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ECientoVeinte
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Curator & Author : ALEXIS CALLADO
Photo Credits: ABDUL VAS
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