in the bad bush

Charlie Aiso

November 22 — December 15, 2013
Triumph gallery

Australian artist Charlie Aiso started with graffiti. After dropping out of school at the age of sixteen, he went to live on the streets and hitchhiked half the world. As a result, Aiso settled in Germany and moved from street art to painting on large-scale canvases, began to exhibit in European galleries, and many began to predict his fame as one of the promising young talents.

The name of the exhibition In the Bad Bush has a double meaning and contains a play on words. On the one hand, this is an allusion to secret sexual relations, on the other — the name of a vast undeveloped territory in Australia —the Bush.

Crabs (Mediterranean)
2013
Canvas, acrylic, oil,
spray paint,
digital printing on paper
220 × 190 cm

The name of the exhibition In the Bad Bush has a double meaning and contains a play on words. On the one hand, this is an allusion to secret sexual relations, on the other — the name of a vast undeveloped territory in Australia —the Bush.

Charlie Aiso’s figurative and figurative works are made with dynamic, careless broad strokes and represent fragments of nightmares and visions. Body parts appearing against the background of quiet landscapes, blurred portraits of otherworldly people in Aiso’s works convey an atmosphere of decadence, depravity and decadence.

Charlie comments on the content of his work as follows: "We are in the depths of late capitalism. In the era of excessive consumerism and the cult of everything disposable, I see only endless nights, all kinds of addictions and perversions. But I do not remain a passive observer, rather, I am a reflective accomplice, located in a border zone where the fragmented world of decline intersects with the world of desperate desire for satisfaction— between the world of addiction and the world of consumption. I see the animal nature of man, and this sets the boundaries of modern human life. We are just tourists in this life. And we often overlook the bits that are actually real."