The German graffiti duo HERAKUT, consisting of HERA (Jasmin Siddiqui) and AKUT (Falk Lehmann), will be opening a new and exciting exhibition tomorrow Saturday 24th of January “RENTAL ASYLUM” at Los Angeles-based Corey Helford Gallery.
Titled “Herakut’s RENTAL ASYLUM,” the exhibition will be presenting new works that will cover the Corey Helfords Gallery’s 4,500 square-foot main gallery, with the artists in attendance.
Regarding their newest creations, HERAKUT states: “The show is called ‘Rental Asylum’ — as we all need to rent a place somewhere far from today’s actual reality, don’t we? And all our creatures on canvas are the happy patients of our rental asylum. They all have different reasons for checking in with us, for a bit, before facing the shit show our world has become.”
After joining forces in 2004, the artists merged their names and styles to collaborate as HERAKUT. Since then, the duo have been painting murals all over the world, along with additional works on canvas, paper and film for gallery and museum shows. Beyond international exhibitions around the world (France, Gaza, Germany and Jordan, among many others), live festival showings at Glastonbury (U.K.), Coachella (U.S.) and an appearance at the Happy 80th Birthday, Dalai Lama celebration (U.S.), this marks HERAKUT’s second exhibition at the gallery.
HERAKUT consider themselves “storytellers” who want to share their thoughts and questions with the public, so their figurative work is always accompanied with text. Their process of painting is also a dialogue with both artists adding their individual techniques to the piece. Jasmin uses her drawing skills on finding the form and proportion of their characters, while Falk specializes on painting the photorealistic elements.are also involved with a variety of charity organizations — where the two work with children in schools and youth programs teaching young people to create a world for themselves — inside their minds. A collection of their work can be found in their books HERAKUT – the perfect merge and After The Laughter.
In addition to HERAKUT’s exhibition, Corey Helford Gallery will be premiering new shows from Adrian Cox in Gallery 2 and Troy Brooks in Gallery 3. Opening reception for all three shows will be hosted Saturday, February 24 from 7-11pm. The reception is open to the public and all shows are on view through March 31.
Author: Fran
Founder and editor of Urbanite. Street Art lover who after the finishing her MA thesis on the Mexican and Norwegian muralist movement in the 1920-50s, developed a fascination for street art and graffiti that eventually led to collaborations with different art blogs, including the creation of this one.
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