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DESCRIPTION:FIERCE comments on the horror of the AIDS pandemic by two important artists 
 whose lives were cut short by AIDS.\n\nVisual Aid is pleased to present 
 some of the last works made by John B. Davis (1964-1992) and Sylvain Klaus 
 (1959-1996). They each wanted to create something out of the tragedy. Both 
 artists works are self portraits and tell a horrific story- the end of 
 their own individual lives. Davis' work is more graceful, Klaus' work is 
 more raw.  We are left with the legacy of beauty and reality.\n\nDavis' 
 photographs are based on images of his own body, and yet they become 
 objects of transcendent beauty--abstracted, almost calligraphic. The work 
 is unsentimental and embodies a stark presence of being. These eight 
 C-prints are from his last show and body of work which he titled "Fearless 
 Gaze".\n\nSome of Davis' images are used in the new film, We Were Here: 
 Voices from the AIDS Years in San Francisco, directed by David Weissman 
 which previewed at the 2010 Frameline Film Festival at the Castro Theatre. 
 Davis's work was an inspiration to Visual Aid founder Daniel Goldstein, who 
 was interviewed at length in the film.\n\nKlaus' work is mixed media bas 
 relief. Materials include plywood, paint and human teeth, collected from 
 dentists, denturists and friends, and embedded in plaster. His work 
 expresses his anger and pain in a universal, primal and raw manifestation. 
 Klaus' assemblage paintings have strong connections to outsider or tramp 
 art, and German Expressionism. The two pieces shown in the gallery were 
 originally part of a row of screaming heads that made up "Mourning Wall". 
 It was shown as his final show in November 1995. At the end of his life, 
 Klaus lived in Seattle and was known for his melancholic, abstracted 
 seascapes and became recognized as one of the younger generation of 
 Northwest Mystic Painters.\n\n...it is my intent to impact the virus with a 
 soulful experience. \nAn emotional, not a cerebral, entrance into my world 
 - our world . . .    -Sylvain Klaus\n 
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LOCATION:Visual Aid Gallery\n57 Post Street, Suite 905\nSan Francisco, CA 
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