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Press Release:
Leading German graffiti artists and storytellers HERAKUT--HERA (Jasmin Siddiqui) and AKUT (Falk Lehmann)--will debut their latest exhibition “Masters Of Wrong” at the COREY HELFORD GALLERY.
With “Masters Of Wrong,” HERAKUT
continues to, in their words, “draw attention towards problematic social
issues, personal ones or those of global scale.” Their own beliefs are inspired
by a certain kind of optimism, “for as long as we can see the problems in front
of us, we stand at a good enough distance to still fix it.’”
After joining forces in 2004, HERA (Jasmin Siddiqui) and AKUT (Falk Lehmann) merged their names
and styles to collaborate as HERAKUT.
Since then, the duo have been painting murals all over the world, along with
additional work 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 debut solo exhibition at
the Corey Helford Gallery and first in their new downtown Los Angeles
gallery. In advance of the “Masters Of Wrong” exhibition,
HERAKUT will paint a mural on the
exterior wall of the gallery.
HERAKUT consider
themselves as “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.
In addition, HERAKUT 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. While in Los Angeles, preparing
for the “Masters Of Wrong” show, HERAKUT will collaborate with the
busy art program at Culver City High
School in the painting of an art
wall at campus.
A collection of their work can be found in their books Herakut--The Perfect Merge and After The Laughter--The 2nd book of Herakut.