Make Them Love You

Exhibition dates: 18 May - 13 June, 2009Opening: Saturday,16 May, 2009, 6:30-9:30pm

Casa Blanca 2

presents

Make Them Love You

, a series of hand-painted signs exhibited throughout the city of Chennai that explore thenegotiation between interior desires and exterior space.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE29 April, 2009For more information contact:SHANNON SPANHAKE & PIERRE CONTI+91 90 0325 8086cb2n16@gmail.com

For us, the sign clusters that punctuate Chennai’s landscape seem toturn the city inside-out - masking the container (the building) while reveal-ing its contents (the businesses inside). The signs, in a constant state of

becoming, compete for attention to ll the negative space of the city’s built

environment with unregulated explosions of internal desires.

Make Them Love You

uses the sign clusters as an exhibition space todisplay the artwork of ten participants who were asked to design a sign ad-vertising a personal interior/exterior dialectic exploring notions of celebrity,

sacrice, development, and narcissism.

“We Intend to be Happy” by artists

Roberto Freddi & Jason Moore

presents the artists themselves dressed in camouage in front of theBritish ag. This self-portrait is a nod to their heroic overcoming of the

Cocktails & Talk / Opening:

Art World Gallery

12,Ganeshpuram3rd Street, (Off Cenotaph Rd.)Teynampet, Chennai044 2431 5371