“50×70: a duo exhibition by Ekta & Eric Magassa”
5 December 2015-16 January 2016
For the last show of 2015, the Mini Galerie invited Ekta and Eric Magassa to work as an occasional artistic duo to explore their common influences and shared practices to encourage, critique and inspire one another. The result is a visual manifestation of the dialogue between Ekta and Eric Magassa in a strict self-imposed fifty by seventy centimeter format. The exhibition contains both individual and collaborative works within one space and without individual sections.
Ekta, also known as Daniel Götesson, currently lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden. He previously lived in London, where he earned a degree in illustration at the London College of Communication. Ekta’s large-scale mural paintings in his trademark bold colour palette can be found all over Europe and his editorial illustrations are published by various magazines worldwide, like The New York Times.
Eric Magassa spent most of his youth moving back and forth between Gothenburg and Paris with his Swedish mother and French father of Senegalese and Malian descent. As a student, Magassa subsequently lived in London and New York to study at Central Saint Martins and The Art Students League of New York. His works stem from experiments with different media ranging from paintings to drawings, sculptures, collages, videos and textiles.
(text adapted from the gallery’s press materials)
INFORMATION
Mini Galerie
Kinkerstraat 12A
1053 DT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
+31 (0) 641102284
Hours:
Wednesday-Saturday, Noon-6PM
and by appointment
Image (top):
Ekta at Mini Galerie
Images (centre):
untitled works by Ekta (left) and Eric Magassa (right)
Images courtesy of Mini Galerie, Amsterdam