26 November 2008 - 25 January 2009;
Exhibition opening: 25 November, 6-8 pm

Acclaimed Romanian artist Victor Man presents recent and new work at the Ikon Gallery Birmingham on Eastern Europe's traditions, myths and recent history.

Richly evocative, dark in both palette and imagery, Man's works signify an alternative world beyond familiar experience. They consider notions of desire and its various manifestations along with fragmentation - geographical and ideological - coming together to create new narratives. Images and objects used by the artist are captured and recycled from a wide range of sources, found near his studio and home, then juxtaposed in a representation of his changing world and the Romania of previous generations.
The transformation occurring within Eastern Europe, reflected in the re-contextualised diversity of Man's work, is obliquely examined, ensuring that a history is not lost but reconstituted with new meaning.

Victor Man (b. 1974) lives and works in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He studied at Ioan Andreescu University of Art and Design, Romania and the Jerusalem Studio School, Israel. Man won international renown when his work was presented in the Romanian pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale.
Selected solo exhibitions: Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Köln (2007); Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (2006); Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2005).
Selected group exhibitions: 52. Biennale di Venezia (2007); Prague Biennale 3 (2007); Chung King Project, Los Angeles (2006).

Victor Man's exhibition ATTEBASILE at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham is supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute, London.

When: 26 November 2008 - 25 January 2009, Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 6pm
Where: Ikon Gallery, 1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2HS
Admission: free.