Introducing "The World Inside Out" a duo exhibition with emerging artists Ugo Li represented by us, Reuter Bausch, and Lucie Picandet represented by Galerie Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Vallois (Paris).

The exhibition is hosted by Wilhelmina's Art Gallery and our gallery. The exhibition will take place on the 31st July at Keresbino, Hydra in Greece.

The World Inside Out is a theme with an inherent duality appropriate for a duo show and is explored in contrasting ways by Ugo Li and Picandet. In Ugo Li's case we have, in one instance, a series of amphorae, vessels designed to hold liquid inside, but whose main purpose has been diplaced by its exterior appearance as a quintessential hallmark of Greek antiquity. The contents - wether water and wine for daily consumption or ritual use, are hidden. In other paintings we see the opposite; naive tables laid with sumptuous food and drinks which are about to be consumed inside a person, and all too soon forgotten, as they work their way through the human body.

At this point Ugo Li enters into dialogue with Picandet whose works describe in a Rabelasian way elements of the human body as worlds of their own - teeth like islands, meteorites, or gaping Hieronymous Bosch-esque mouth-like caves that reveal surreal and hellish visions. From the bowels of the human body and the earth we then travel with Picandet outside into a cosmic realm of celestial bodies intermingling surreally with a historic character from another century. In another painting we see a prehistoric world trapped inside a snow globe next to a laboratoryjar supported by dancing teeth containing a bladder filled with red liquid that upon closer inspection is a sinking sunset and the urethra four hands through which then blood-red sea is being distilled. Picandet has created a totally transparent exterior to reveal invisible worlds.

Here we rejoin Ugo Li again; his amphorae and indeed his human figures, who by contrast have hidden everything inside with their attractive exteriors - except perhaps nostalgia. The world outside in to the world inside out: this is the trajectory we are taken on by the sumptuous worlds of Ugo Li and Lucie Picandet.