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ANTON UNAI accident, advantage, adventure, bad luck, break, cast, casualty, coincidence, contingency, destination, destiny, doom, even chance, fluke, fortuity, fortune, future, gamble, good luck, hap*, haphazard, happening, hazard, hit, lot, lottery, lucky break, misfortune, occurrence, odds, outcome, peradventure, peril, providence, risk, toss-up.

Using materials that reflect the urban landscape, ordinary detritus like rusty sheet metal or yesterday’s newspaper, ANTON UNAI´S work resurrects and reinvents the discarded relics of the modern masses. His art is at once rough and delicate, exposing sentimental and vulnerable humanity through violent gestures, provocative irony and messy compositions that defy traditional aesthetic boundaries. Meta-narratives, pop and subculture artifacts, religious iconography and a wide breadth of literary references are all present in his multifaceted installations, as well as allusions to art historical antecedents ranging from Jean michel Basquiat´s urban poetry to Sir Howard Hodgkin’s abstract paintings as sculptural objects to Jonathan Meese’s theatrical symbolism.

Anton Unai was born in 1974 and lived in several European countries before moving to Berlin. His work has been exhibited internationally and was recently included in group exhibitions.

The best specific for the prejudice and injustice of others is not to trouble oneself about them and go OUT and do what is right for you. Which brings me to tell you that I shall soon reach the moon with no projectiles aid. There shall be my Paradise, and I shall find the lost souls that I love. The philosophers. And they will look at me and say... Who are you to be among us?.. And I will say I am Philosopher, Metaphysician, Painter, brawler and musician. Astronaut and dueller.

As the most humble servant of Art here lies Unai

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

»Todas las obras de arte deben empezar por el final« (solo show) [Rojo Art Space], Barcelona 2009

»Berliner Strasse«(group exhibition)

[»Urban Affairs]« (street art festival) Berlin, 2008

»Ultimatum«(solo show) Schönhauser Allee 8, Off Space, Berlin, 2008

»The disenchantment of the Bourgeoisie« [Circleculture Gallery], Berlin, 2008

»The Alternative Philosophy« (Gruppenausstellung) [The Leonard Street Gallery], London, 2008

»Berliner Strasse« [Circleculture Gallery], Berlin, 2007/2008

»Me, Myself and Unai« [Circleculture Gallery], 2007

»Unai vs Monk: Boxing Action Paint« Guillotine, Berlin, 2007

»Homeless Housing« (Street Aid) New York, 2006

»Domaine Space« (Installation) New York, 2006

»Lies the Untold Truth« Catfood Gallery, Berlin, 2006