Double Edged For the first time ever, the highly anticipated collaboration with artists Nano4814 and Hell’O Collective come together combining their contrasting aesthetics with a similar theme. Avenue des Arts is delighted to introduce “Double Edged”, a series of pieces that join in both conflict and mutual admiration centering around the decomposed icons of the human figure. This exhibition is set to run March 14th - April 4th of 2020. An opening reception for this exhibition will be held on Saturday, March 14th from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm.

Hell’O Collective consists of artists Jerôme Meyden and Antoine Detaille. Starting off as friends with a mutual interest in graffiti they eventually gravitated towards paper and painting compositions, though their pieces take on various other forms. Human-like figures are often depicted in their Alice in Wonderland, dreamy settings with “brief narrative sequences, which are sometimes juxtaposed”.

Much like Hell’O Collective, Nano4814’s art is not limited and takes on many forms in paintings, sculptures, street signs, murals and tags. Nano4814 similarly started with an interest in the traditional style of graffiti and street culture, through more than 25 years of creative work he was able to develop his own iconographic aesthetic with his unmistakable abstract figures and complex dynamic compositions.

Hell’O Collective’s use of color is more muted and intentionally restricted whereas Nano’s is far more vivid and polychromatic, despite these differences all artists use their shared dreamlike collage paintings to express their concepts of imbalance and vulnerability. Both, playing with the illusion of depth with narrative imagery involving multiple figurative forms.

More than 20 pieces by all artists will be featured at Avenue des Arts with various frameworks including canvas pieces, paper works and sculptures. In addition to these pieces, which have been individually worked on by Nano4818 and Hell’O Collective, this exhibition will also display collaborated pieces as well as a coproduced mural.

Free RSVP: doubleedged.eventbrite.com

Instagram: Artists- @antoinehellocollective, @jer_hellocollective , & @nano4814 Gallery- @avenuedesarts_gallery