Recently APPLE FACE, a group exhibition featuring Kevin Kuenster, Miguel Bonilla, Jaques de Beaufort, Francesco Cipollone, Iain Andrews, and Kevin Draper, opened on April 2 at Mriya Gallery. The opening reception brought together artists, collectors, and friends to celebrate a project exploring how the language of Surrealism—both figurative and abstract—translates into the conditions of the contemporary world, where identity and perception are increasingly fluid.

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Location: Mriya Gallery (101 Reade Street, Tribeca, New York, NY 10013)

Inspired by René Magritte’s The Son of Man, the exhibition reimagines the apple as a symbol of concealment, mediation, and interruption—a form that obscures as much as it reveals. At a moment when the physical and digital coexist as parallel layers of experience, APPLE FACE suggests that Surrealism has not disappeared, but rather evolved, becoming embedded in everyday life where the boundaries between the visible and hidden, the real and imagined are constantly shifting.

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Curated by Aidana Bergali, the exhibition brings together six artists working across painting, drawing, and sculpture, each engaging with Surrealism not as a historical style, but as a living framework through which contemporary reality can be interpreted.

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Taking its point of departure from Magritte’s iconic image of the obscured face, the project expands into a broader meditation on visibility, identity, and technological mediation. Today, the “apple” hovers not only as a symbol, but as an interface—an object through which we construct, project, and experience multiple layers of reality.

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Each artwork is presented in both physical and digital form, allowing it to exist simultaneously across material and technological realms. This dual presence reflects the shifting conditions of authorship, ownership, and value in a world increasingly shaped by digital systems.

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APPLE FACE ultimately proposes that Surrealism was never a closed chapter, but an evolving condition—one that continues to unfold as our realities become ever more layered, mediated, and intertwined.

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Source: https://usaartnews.com/news/apple-face-exhibition-now-open