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October 18 - November 16, 2024

RAPHAEL ADJETEY ADJEI MAYNE
BE HONEST, UNTITLED

Mayne’s work combines vibrant portraiture with the symbolic world of Ghanaian Adinkra, exploring themes of identity, diaspora, and transnational experiences by intertwining personal and cultural narratives. His ongoing Faceless series, which emphasizes body language and posture, prompting viewers to reflect on the individuals depicted, has earned him international acclaim. The textiles used by Mayne, however, carry a highly political charge that is closely linked to Africa's colonial history and the intertwining of global trade routes. The fabrics perceived as traditionally West African were actually developed by the former colonial power, the Netherlands, as imitations of Javanese batik fabrics and are still distributed by them in West African countries today. They thus reflect the shared, tumultuous history of Europe and Africa.

The Great Embrance
September 6 - October 6, 2024

SEBASTIAN MAAS
A SWEET TOUCH

Gawking half-beings, frenzied packs of dogs, and screeching zebras come together in Sebastian Maas' latest pictures. The Berlin-based artist was among the first artists to join HELDENREIZER Contemporary and has been a permanent fixture in the gallery's program for years. As the main act at this year's Open Art Gallery Weekend, he is showing a milestone in his young oeuvre, grabbing visitors by the nostalgically heavy heart and squeezing so tightly that it is unclear whether it pleases or hurts. His visual vocabulary uses a thoroughly occupied, firmly established, and generally appreciated motif from the solid repertoire of art history. With skillful and pointed settings, Maas turns it into a suspenseful revue of current events. In Die große Umarmung (The Great Embrance) (2024), for example, pink areas of color slide onto the back of a life-size zebra and smile shyly at the viewer. An abstract creature forms, oscillating somewhere between predator and warm blanket, while pastel coziness meets colonial chic, a sense of home, and precise pop dilettantism. Sebastian Maas invites us to question our aesthetic and moral identity and develop a fashion- and culture-critical maturity.

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HELDENREIZER Contemporary GmbH
Türkenstr. 32
80333 Munich, Germany

T. +49 89 80 92 92 50
info@heldenreizer.com

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Saturday, 11 am – 4 pm

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