Big Scenes exhibition

Hay Hill Gallery,5a Cork Street, London, W1S 3NY - Monday 19th July 2010 to Saturday 11th September 2010

This summer, the Hay Hill Gallery brings a sense of the surreal to Cork Street and presents Big Scenes, the visionary and extraordinary world of award-winning photographer Marco Sanges.
Big Scenes combines photography, video and performance, bringing together larger than life characters and stories to play out a world of fantasy, grandeur and drama. Big Scenes is a dreamlike, decadent world reminiscent of Surrealism and the visual and performing arts of the glamorous golden age of the 1920s and
30s.
The artist Gavin Turk commented: “Marco Sanges's art is like going to a theatre through different doors,characters in photos come to life in various forms of tableaux vivant”.
Sanges's double award-winning short film Circumstances (Best Art Film - Portobello Film Festival, London2008 and Best Experimental Art Video, Open Cinema, St Petersburg, Russia, 2009) will be screened in the lower ground floor gallery. A series of photographs from the accompanying book Circumstances will be shown alongside the film for the first time.
Sanges is attracted in particular to the luminous black and white films of the silent era and creates
photographs in sequence that are narrative based, enigmatic and that evoke a feeling of mystery and thesense of a sensual, uncanny world just out of grasp. A magnification of imagination, the surrealistic nature
of Big Scenes represents the liberation of the unconscious, as a means to create art outside the boundariesof official culture. This exhibition brings together the work of an artist who is passionate about life in itsentirety and continues to evoke, transcend and excite the world.