GR gallery is pleased to announce Silver Screen, an ingenious duo exhibition of new works by Teiji Hayama and Adam Lister.

For their first show together, after previous individual presentations at GR gallery, they have engaged in a close dialogue inspired by the artistic vitality generated by evergreen icons from the golden ages of the cinema industry. The idiosyncratic styles of Hayama and Lister, unified under the Hollywoodian glamour theme, encounter and confront each other in a discussion that resolves in the mutual accentuation of the other one artworks. Silver Screen puts together a total of 16 pieces, appositely created for this occasion, including paintings and works on papers.

Adam’s pixelated technique, reminiscent of the classical 8 bit arcade graphic, usually dominated by subtle color tones is now enhanced with brighter nuances and sharper contrast to better depict the subjects and his interpretation of the theme. On the other side Teiji’s signature approach, with his oddly distorted celebrities characterized by bored and exhausted faces and ironically reimagined as vintage social media influencers, illustrates perfectly the allure and fragility of that world.

Silver Screen aims to exhibit the exclusive artistic output of these two internationally known and unique talents that are bringing to a new level the idea of perception and the virtuosity of their style. Hollywood superstars, cinematic objects, iconic movies references, hybrid emblematic juxtapositions and reimagined super heroes, channel the artists creativity into another form and throw the viewer into a timeless, melancholic and charming realm.

Teiji Hayama is a Japanese artist currently living and working in Switzerland. When he became 18, he left Japan and moved to London where he graduated the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Hayama’s greyscale paintings depict oddly distorted portraits with bored exhausted faces inspired by old Hollywood celebrities and vintage photography. The portraits of glamorous personage with droopy eyes and long armophous rubber-like bodies, tackles the viewer on how social media fatigue has overburdened humans. Teiji Hayama exhibits his work regularly in galleries and Art fairs throughout the world.

Adam Lister is an American artist, born in 1978, in Fairfax, Virginia. He is known for exploring pop culture and art history through creating pixelated images of famous paintings, inspired by his love for the 8-bit graphics of the Atari and Nintendo game consoles. Adam’s biggest supporter is his family – his wife and son, who inspire him to work hard. Lister went to School of Visual Arts in New York, and obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2003. Since then, he has exhibited his works in numerous exhibitions throughout the United States, but also in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom.