FLATFILE is pleased to present two series of new paintings by FLATFILEgalleries’ MICHIKO ITATANI in Cosmic Theater II, with HyperBaroque in Gallery A and Moon Light/Mooring in Project Room 1.  The two bodies of work will explore, in Itatani’s words, “my two parallel fictions based on the human desire to reach out into the mental and physical space beyond our reach.   One is looking out and another is looking in.”  There will be a tri-fold catalogue available of the exhibition. A glimpse of the work and a complete CV for Michiko Itatani is available at www.michikoitatani.com.

FLATFILEgalleries also presents Deluge, new work by Chicago gallery artist Monika Wulfers, in Gallery B.  Wulfers was inspired by the DaVinci Deluge drawings to create these large scale photographs based on various bodies of rushing water.  Her process often involves reversing images to the negative, which gives them a surreal grace.  For more on Monika Wulfers, please go to www.monikawulfers.com.

Project Room 2 features work by guest artist Lina Espinosa.  Espinosa’s installation, created of “light drawings” and entitled A través del cuerpo/Through the Body, deals with “the pain that human beings are able to inflict onto others.”  Colombia, South America, where Espinosa lives and works is a country affected by unbridled violence, and the simplicity of these drawings, which are created by perforating the paper with the tiniest of points and allowing light to pass through to expose the images, is a way for Espinosa to express the emotional pain of sadness caused by physical and emotional abuse, oblivion and various feelings of impotence in a country where torture, kidnapping, displacements, and assassinations are becoming more common. To see more about Espinosa see www.linaespinosa.com.

And last, but certainly not least, in Debut, formerly known as The Library, Don Giovanni, etchings and paintings by gallery artist Adi Holzer, who lives and works in Denmark, although he is Austrian.  Holzer’s etchings, some uncolored, and some hand-tinted, are often amusing, and in this series, nearly all are erotic to some degree.  His subject is the Mozart Opera, Don Giovanni, which is itself a sensual romp, and the etchings are made in that spirit.  www.adiholzer.com.  Don Giovanni is being performed this spring in Chicago by COT.

FLATFILEgalleries is open from 11 to 6, Tuesday through Saturday and is a member of the Art Dealers Association of Chicago.  On April 22nd, FLATFILEgalleries will celebrates its 8th anniversary with an announcement regarding a series of portfolios of art by gallery artists – stay tuned!