REALITY CHEQUE
ATVPs Winter '09 Show of the Season
19 June - 5 July 2009
Opening Launch Friday 19 June 6-9pm
Reality Cheque artists:
Aaron Matheson, Bec Young, Charles Dennington, Catherine Cloran, Danielle
Bluff, Gilbert Grace, Jack Breukelaar, Jeffrey Hamilton, Jemima
Aitchison, Jesse Rasmussen, Kurt Sorensen, Maiara Rocha
Skarheim & Benny B Sutton, Mark Dahl (CAN), The Unknown Artist's Collective, Pamela Lee Brenner & Johannes Muljana, Paula Perugini,
Peter Fyfe, Shane Brazier, Stephanie Bray, Tom Loveday.
Join
ATVP for its Winter '09 Show of the Season -
Reality Cheque - a timely
exhibition featuring 25 artists who have all been asked to respond to
the theme in this current economic climate known simply as GFC, or the
Global Financial Crisis.
As a global community, we face a vast
array of challenges. Now more than ever we need to consider what really
makes the world go round. Our actions and choices and their related
impact on our environments, economies and cultures must all be placed
firmly under the microscope. ATVP invited artists to consider that it
may not be money, but a different kind of currency that needs to be
established to allow the world to revolve.
The
Reality Cheque
artistic responses are diverse in mediums and disciplines, from
photography to painting, installation to video, sculpture to print
making, promising to challenge and encourage thought and dialogue
around issues pertaining to capitalism, environment, culture, politics,
society and our global economies.
Some sneak peeks...
Pamela
Lee Brenner & Johannes Muljana, hot off the heels of their
Fraser's
Studio Project residency team up with a light and text work that
continuously calculates a
No Ordinaries Index of job losses throughout
the 'developed' world, whilst
Shane Brazier's
Camo-skulls - cast and
hand painted human skulls - highlight the economy of war while also
hinting at the wider human toll of capitalistic economic depressions.
Danielle
Bluff's interactive paper origami game
Fortune Teller, made from a
twenty-year personal collection of pulped bank statements, mixes
capital cliche with value added gifts, as she invites the audience to
not only take part, but to also take the art!
Kurt Sorensen's
medium format photography juxtaposes stark and barren landscapes with
the sole indicators of human presence being a dilapidated empty
billboard and a ghostly deserted shop. Meanwhile
Catherine Cloran
provides a triptych of mysterious digital prints of floating empty
plastic shopping bags.
Bec Young dishes out an interrogation of
the contemporary psyche through her recording of banal chitchat in
Conversation Observation, a selection of random text pieces. Adjoining
this is
Jeffrey Hamilton's series of collage works using severed pesky
everyday junk mail.
Gilbert Grace unveils
Presumption of
Regularity, a sculptural vehicle constructed from found timber and
fallen tree limbs seemingly powered by plaster casted human feet and
hands - a
Flintstone-like creation inspired by the aftermath of the
collapse of the New York world trade centre towers.
Stephanie Bray's
running a rat's race sees a mouse running on a treadmill under the
watchful eye of a rat in an empty crafted filing cabinet (no real
animals used in the making and exhibiting of this artwork).
The
humble Aussie 50 dollar note is the inspiration and subject for
Jemima
Aitchison's video installation which features a large screen printed
bill intended to keep the user warm in dark and cold financial times,
while
Jack Breukelaar fashions a suit for a businessman designed solely
with motifs from the spectrum of our plastic national currency.
Concurrently,
Tom Loveday's video,
The Real World utilises every known
sign of economic currency throughout the planet to distil the essence
of the equation of money and freedom in relationship to a real world.
PLUS: Special Opening Night Performances by singer songwriters Jon Jackson and Mark (Eli) Wolfe.
ATVP showcases two contemporary Sydney ceramicists.
Coinciding
with the Australian Ceramics Triennale ATVP showcase Clarissa Regan and
Joy Bye who present Post hoc ... ergo, a whole gallery installation of
ceramic objects and sculpture exploring narrative and archetypal forms.
Post
hoc ... ergo is a culmination of two years studio and research practice
grounded in their respective Masters degrees at Sydney College of the
Arts, which Regan and Bye will both in July.
Clarissa Regan will
also be presenting Pots, Puns & Wordplay: Humour As A Subversive
Device In Ceramics for the Australian Ceramics Triennale at the
National Art School, Darlinghurst, on Sunday the 19thJuly.
Clarissa
Regan's work uses devices of humour and textual wordplay to provoke,
confront or ridicule, posing the question "What If?" in relation to
classic European fairy tales, transposing them into the 21st century by
finding parallel themes of entrapment, seduction and secrets in
contemporary life. Her work varies in form from the utilitarian to the
art-object using such diverse techniques as silk screening, decal,
print transfers and photoshop techniques to create textual complexity.
Clarissa
Regan has been exhibiting since 2005 and completed her degree with
Honours at the National Art School in 2006, winning the Ceramic Art and
Perception Prize.
Joy Bye adopts a collage-like approach to
assembling her archetypal figures, disrupting the usual forms connected
with figurative sculpture. By utilising recycled and ready- made
objects Bye's work is concerned with ideas of chance and harnessing
unconscious forces.
Bye is an award winning artist who has been a practising ceramics and painting full time since 1994.Calling all innovative creative types...
Performance Artists, Sound Artists, Installation and Visual Artists, Musicians, Bands, DJs, MCs and Entertainers
for ....
At The Vanishing Point's Events & Festivals Program
At
The Vanishing Point - Contemporary Art (ATVP) is looking for
performers, musicians, and artists of all kinds to get involved in the
great opportunities for exposure and artistic development that the
gallery is creating.
ATVP is currently organising several events outside of its Newtown gallery including seasonal curated multidisciplinary arts showcases at the Oxford Art Factory.
Register your interest now to have the chance to participate in these and other unique opportunities.
For a registration form or further information contact;
ATVP
0430 083 364
info@atthevanishingpoint.c
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