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1/21-2/20 "Le Petit Prince - Young Male Artists"
Opening Reception: 1/21 Friday 7-10pm

Curated by Tomoko Ashikawa (expace[ex-space] projects)+Shinya Watanabe (Spiky Art)

Katsuma Ryohuga	Kenjirou Kitade		Russell Maschmeyer
George Pfau		Christopher Reiger

Installation View

**Special Event, "Valentine Day's Eve Afternoon Tea Party!" on 2/13, Sunday, 3-5pm
"Le Petit Prince will invite you to treat your sweet pea to sweets and tea!"
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Brooklyn - AG Gallery is pleased to present "Le Petit Prince - young male artists". The story is told by 5 young male artists to represent their own bizarre image of the world and being. Working closely on a relationship between dream and reality, human and nature, their works result in an interested correspondence between the two, creating their own imaginary fairy tales. Each perspective becomes a fascinating combination of an adult who is grown-up intellectually and a child who is innocent, ignorant and often cruel.

Ryouga Katsuma joins this exhibition with his Action Painting piece and group of small paintings. His style of painting is by feeling free to paint like a child, and then chooses favorite colors and themes. The rebuilding of these ideas on canvas comes from infinite ideas that only innocent children can have, and to have this child's innocent spirit is extraordinary ability for adults. This is his source of inspiration for art making, and his style comes from his background, as a former street painter.

Kenjirou Kitade presents three bust pieces of anthropomorphized sheep. In his work, the subject, "Sheep", has been used as a metaphor to demonstrate human shortcoming. There is a similarity between sheep and human society, since mankind has domesticated sheep from ancient time. He says he can present human frailty in the guise of sheep. Each bust piece has an extreme facial expression on its face, and it reveals what we truly look like under the mask we put in our society.

Russell Maschmeyer presents a sculpture of a little burned house in an artificially designed garden placed on the table. He is interested in combining cinematic fiction with his own personal history and emotions in order to express blurred boundary between dream and reality. By depicting his own dream and nightmare as if one of the scenes from the film, he attempts to present his struggle between intellectually composed self and the confused state of his emotions.

Christopher Reiger's scientific fairly tale comes from his childhood. As he grow up in the rural Delmarva Peninsula, his experience of hunting, fishing, or simply playing took him to many adventures, gaining curiosity to the nature and its ecosystem. Three paintings in the exhibition are the outgrowth of his fascination with the natural science and his long-tem habit of scribbling in the margins. Using mixed medium such as watercolor, sumi ink, acrylic and graphite, his painting creates a chaotic vision with the contrary image of nature and artificiality.

George Pfau explores 'gray area" in between what we can visually recognize and what we deem unrecognizable. This spectrum is often determined by our knowledge of language and our ability to place labels on things we recognize. These labels are such as ﾒterror", 'liberation", and 'freedom". The meanings of these terms can vary drastically from culture to culture, creating highly debatable 'gray areas" which are based purely on opinions and biases.

"Le Petit Prince - young male artists" will be on view at AG Gallery through February 20th, 2005. The gallery is located at 103 North 3rd St. (between Berry and Wythe Ave.).
Hours: Sun. 12-8pm Mon.-Sat. 12-10pm
For further information, please contact the gallery at 718-599-3044 or visit www.aboutglamour.net