On one of my recent travels during the festive season, I was introduced to the sublime music of Leipzig based one-member band ‘Mirro Blac’. The Plate-de-Jour is lazily intense alternative rock sound coupled with lyrics which convey a variety of emotions and it works beautifully. The studio lineup of the project consists of Waan only as its songwriter, singer and instrumentalist, while the live band features various like-minded musicians participating in the reinterpretation of songs for the live setting. So, without further ado, our first artist of the new year:
If you like what yo hear and are in the mood for for some more Leipziggy Stardust, follow Waan and his work at: http://www.mirroblac.com/
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Karan Khurana
Karan Khurana ( Born in 1982, Mumbai, India) makes photos and mixed media artworks. By using popular themes such as pointlessness, old monuments and nightlife, Khurana creates intense personal moments by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.
His photos don’t reference recognisable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. By applying abstraction, he touches various overlapping themes and strategies. Several reoccurring subject matter can be recognised, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repetition, provocation and the investigation of the process of expectations.
His works are saturated with obviousness, mental inertia, clichés and bad jokes. They question the coerciveness that is derived from the more profound meaning and the superficial aesthetic appearance of an image. By parodying mass media by exaggerating certain formal aspects inherent to our contemporary society, he makes works that can be seen as self-portraits. Sometimes they appear idiosyncratic and quirky, at other times, they seem typical by-products of consumer-oriented superabundance and marketing.
His works often refer to pop and mass culture. Using written and drawn symbols, a world where light-heartedness rules and where rules are undermined is created.
Karan Khurana currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany!
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