Exhibition+book release party : Bryan Beast : Pandemonium

Meeting with the Brussels artist Bryan Beast for the release of his illustrations book "Pandemonium" and a flash exhibition in the distro space and cellar of the Sterput. https://www.instagram.com/pandemoniumgraphicbook/ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ BRYAN BEAST Bryan Beast lives and works in Brussels. In parallel with his activities within the non-profit organization E², he manufactures digital collages, parodying the aesthetics of the engraved image, and creates a baroque universe which is expressed through digital prints and handcrafted art books. https://bryanbeast.org/ PANDEMONIUM Following on from "Vermines" his previous duo work, in an encyclopedic form, the artist goes further the history of publishing to go solo from the dictionary to the grimoire. "Pandemonium" offers a theater of macabre devils, loaded and sulphurous. The composition is here at the service of a maelstrom with dubious allegories: deadly sins, demonic tabloids and hallucinated visions. The sermons of this black mass, from a patchwork of renaissance engravings, clipart, Victorian caricatures and photographic textures parade through pages and notebooks, the mixture of printing techniques and page formats giving its jerky and fractal rhythm to the whole. Drawing his references from art history as well as from metal album covers, the artist creates his own baroque universe, dark but nevertheless elegant.