In-Gate Gallery is pleased to present Meeting with your Nature, an exhibition project combining two installations that consistently develop their general idea and form two parts of the show united by their shared vision.
Both shows feature works by Anatoly Akue (b. 1986), an artist who develops his creative practice in a wide range of techniques and formats, from street art and abstract painting to digital works and sculpture. Nature is the source and object of ideas and creative exploration for the artist who lives and works in Montenegro, in symbiosis with natural environment.
The first part of the project - the exhibition Meeting with Your Nature: The Ground, on show from July 21 to September 24, 2022, embodies the idea of space and void as the basis for manifestation and experience of phenomena in real world.
For his first show with the gallery, Anatoly Akue presents abstract works made in mixed media on canvas and textiles. Some of the exhibited works were created by the artist specifically for the exhibition Meeting with Your Nature, in the gallery space.
Anatoly Akue’s artistic language is multidimensional; it was formed in the process of the research and experiments. The artist’s creative pursuit began with street art in 1997 and became the first stage of his development, during which he found a characteristic style and implemented large-scale projects at street art festivals all over the world, including Australia, Japan, Germany and Denmark, etc. In 2018 the artwork of Anatoly Akue was exhibited at Venice Biennale of Architecture, and in subsequent years, studio work and exhibition projects were playing increasingly important parts in the artist’s creative activity.
Anatoly Akue’s works are strongly underpinned with philosophical and psychological motives. The artist used his knowledge and discoveries in these areas when creating a course for artists dedicated to physical and spiritual aspects of personality and their manifestation in creativity and everyday life.
The project Meeting with your Nature is a dialogue between the artist and the viewer, about peculiarities of human perception and the reality’s refraction in human mind; about the quest and the path to attaining the truth.
Each work included in the installation is a unique creative and psychological experiment, another step in exploring the possibilities of revealing and visualizing inner emotional field by creating an abstract composition.
