This exhibition by the then Glasgow based Argentinean artist included a series of small scale prints made over the previous 3 years which related through subject matter the cities of Glasgow and Buenos Aires. Images of the urban landscape are interrupted by the insertion of symbols which takes the form of a humanoid figure that appears clone like throughout many of the works. For the artist these represent those entities that rule our lives - Time, Destiny, Oblivion. The figures are made with PVC modelling material and were then photographed and digitally merged with the images of the urban landscape taken on standard reflex camera’s. The title of the show reflects the themes.

“Time is a thief and, at the same time, is a severe communist. He takes away and distributes equally to all of us. Destiny, instead, is an arbitrary emperor who decides and undoes according to his mood. They rule the world between them under a frame of awful relationships and few agreements.”

Whilst ‘reflecting’ on the human condition, the work avoids the burden of drama through the popular appeal of the city-scape on the one hand, and on the other, creating these comic like characters that tend to drop into our midst, in the strangest of places, at odd times of the day. The ‘entities’ reappear again, but this time in a more dreamlike state in the second set of works in the show which took the form of vibrant mandala’s. In these larger lambda prints, colour and pattern temporarily conceal the sequence of the small figures once again marching on our consciousness. Overall, the work can be looked at and ‘read’ at a number of levels or entry points: it is surreal and complex, ironic and playful.

Ral Veroni studied multidisciplinary printmaking in Bristol; has exhibited his artists books at the Fruitmarket in Edinburgh, and Glasgow School of Art; has been included in a number of group shows including Street Level Open, Digital Mastered at Glasgow Print Studio, the London Artists Book Fair, as well as a number of venues in South America. The exhibition at Street Level was his first major one-person exhibition. A specially produced brochure with a commissioned article by Moira Jeffrey accompanied the show. The artists web-site and a number of his artists books were also on display as part of the show.