NELIO Sort de l’ ombre

arrived in Melbourne an angel, left with a broken tooth, shoes falling off and covered in paint.

sorry Madmoiselle Nelio! xx rats of melbourne

Nelio on Misty bar, Hosier Lane

Hailing from a rural part of France and lacking the urban laneways of a city, Nelio’s favoured canvas are the decayed and crumbling industrial buildings littering the French countryside, abandoned as commerce and workers gravitated towards the larger cities throughout the late 20th century. Nelio’s practise combines graphic design, photography and graffiti, and he is particularly sensitive to the public environments in which he places his idiosyncratic interlinked heads and biomorphic shapes (known as “bonds”).

A sense of lost arcadia permeates Nelio’s poetic documentation of his aerosol art, painted onto faded and broken walls amongst creepers and foliage that reclaim the buildings as floors and roofs give way to the elements. His photography distils the atmosphere and transports the viewer to the original space in which his work is placed. Nelio has become a mainstay on the local scene during his sojourn, collaborating with many artists, and Citylights is proud to present his first solo exhibition in Australia.

http://www.nelio.fr/

who likes to rock the party?

OPENING
CITYLIGHTS HOSIER LANE ::: Melbourne CBD ::: AUSTRALIA
6PM to 8PM ::: Wednesday 06 June 2007 :: (Until 16.08.07)