Ilona Kiss - Visitors

7-11 September 2017 BOZAR, Brussels Ilona Kiss’ work is strongly influenced by dreams and nightmares, collective memory, and the question of place and belonging. The poetic qualities of uncertain situations influence her work as such and connect with traditional genres like Romanticism. Her work is drawn to ambiguity and she is interested in the tension between the familiar and the weird, and the real and the imaginary. Darkness and a sense of sadness surface in her work. Biography Ilona Kiss was born in Zürich, Switzerland and lives in Manchester, UK. She completed an MA in Fine Art at the Manchester School of Art in 2013. Her work was included in group exhibitions at ArtWorks Open 2010, Barbican Arts Group Trust in London (selected by Graham Crowley and Timothy Hyman), School of Arts Vol. lll at the HfBK in Dresden, Germany 2013, Anonyme Zeichner, Galerie Nord/Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin 2013 and 2015. Her work was selected for the Saatchi New Sensations show in London 2013 and was featured in the best of the year selection of works from Saatchi online. In 2014, she was involved in ‘Optima Mihi in Chartis’, a group show at the Galerie Römerapotheke in Zürich. Her work was selected for the Griffin Gallery Open in 2015, the group show ‘The Collection of Small Paintings’ at the Contemporary London and the Neo:Artprize. In 2016, her work was selected for the BEEP Wales Painting Prize and the Royal Scottish Academy Open.

For her first solo exhibition at PAPER, Ilona Kiss will present a new body of work titled, Visitors. The drawings, graphite on Bristol Board, maintain the same format of 30 x 21cm, and produced in a photorealistic style. Kiss will explore the theme both as a visitor herself as well as being visited by strange creatures of her imagination. Having been enthralled by anything fantastic or otherworldly throughout her life, Kiss travels in her imagination between places and times, touching on the dark, the haunted, and the invisible. This affection for the narrative is rooted in her background as a theatre designer. The experience of costume, play, drama, and scenography has left its mark and influences her work as such. Kiss will present these new works on bespoke shelves around the gallery.

Monologue
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2017
£750 (unframed)
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Inconvenient Pleasure
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2017
£750 (unframed)
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Visitation
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2017
£750 (unframed)
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The Priestess
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2017
£750 (unframed)
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Diva
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2017
£750 (unframed)
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Moth
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2016
£750 (unframed)
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Throne
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2017
£750 (unframed)
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Ophelia
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2017
SOLD

Reigen
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2016
£750 (unframed)
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Bride
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2017
£750 (unframed)
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The Unthing
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2017
£750 (unframed)
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The Fortuneteller
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2016
SOLD

Eden (Maud Stevens Wagner)
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2016
SOLD

Raven
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2016
£750 (unframed)
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CaptainCaptain
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2016
£750 (unframed)
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Wishing on a Shooting Star
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2017
£750 (unframed)
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I Think I Noticed What You are Looking For
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2017
£750 (unframed)
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Where the Vampires Live
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2017
£750 (unframed)
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Carpathian Nights
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2017
£750 (unframed)
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Ark
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2017
£750 (unframed)
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Faller
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2017
£750 (unframed)
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One Moon or Another
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2016
£750 (unframed)
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Fairy Dust
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2016
SOLD
Catman
Pencil on Bristol Board
30 x 21cm
2016
£750 (framed)
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I Knew He'd Come Back One Day
Pencil on Bristol Board
20 x 15cm
2017
£500 (unframed)
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Where the Magic
Pencil on Paper
19.5 x 19.5cm
2015
£1000 (unframed)
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Hide and Seek
Pencil on Paper
16.5 x 12.5cm
2015
£500 (unframed)
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12th Hour
Pencil on Paper
13.5 x 19.5cm
2015
£750 (unframed)
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Moth
Aquatint Etching
21 x 15cm
Edition of 12
2016
£120 (unframed)
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Installation Views @ Art on Paper: Contemporary Drawing Fair, BOZAR, Brussels