Archive for June 2008
ISCP Australia Council Residency, New York
ISCP New York Australia Council residency September 2008- March 2009
ISCP is a residency tailored to suit the practical needs of the visiting artist/curator by providing space in which to produce as well as addressing the magnitude of the world’s art capital. The program prides itself on providing an infrastructure, which accelerates integration and interaction with the host culture and in the course of its development, has become a catalyst for introduction, presentation, connection, exposure and dissemination.
Danger of Authority is the new body of work created through this residency. The collage works developed were exhibited at Tolarno Galleries, 2010. See ‘Print Media’ and then ‘Danger of Authority’ in the website menu.
Three elements created the final work, this included woodblock print techniques. The woodblocks were created by Kitamura Shoichi in Melbourne, see ‘Artist Residencies’ ‘Danger of Authority’ for more details.
Legions of War Widows Face Dire Need in Iraq, 2009. Woodblock print on hand made kikuban hankusa kouzosi tansyoku Japanese paper 97x67cm (print size). Photo: Christian Capurro.
The Island and Gun-metal grey
The Islandand Gun-metal grey series Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Cambridge, UK.
24 June – 1 October 2008
Curator: Nicholas Thomas. Professor of Historical Anthropology, & Director Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology University of Cambridge, UK.
The inspiration behind The Island is the 1962 album by William Blandowski’s, Australien in 142 Photographischen.
See TEXT in the main Brook Andrew web site for essay by Nicholas Thomas and artist statements by Brook Andrew on The Island and Gun-metal grey series.
LIST OF WORKS
Historic display cabinet with William Blandowski’s 1862 album, Australien in 142 Photographischen, and a collection of copy-prints.
The Island I 2008
Mixed media on linen, 250 x 300 x 5 cm
The Island II 2008
Mixed media on linen, 250 x 300 x 5 cm
Gun-metal grey 2007, Galiyn (rain)
Mixed media, 170 x 110 x 5 cm
Gun-metal grey 2007, Muuruun (life)
Mixed media, 170 x 110 x 5 cm
H142: First female aboriginal seen and captured.
Camp XL, 2007. Yarruudang II (dream).
Mixed media, 170 x 110 x 5 cm
Making of ‘The Island’ series 2008
The Island I, 2008
250x300x5cm. Mixed media on Belgian Linen.
The following images document the making process of The Island series.
Brook made the series with Melbourne based master screen printer Stewart Russell, formally of the London Print Works, and Bonnie Ashley, with assistance by Trent Walter and Louise Patrick.
Stewart and Bonnie
Bonnie
Stewart, Bonnie and Trent
Stewart, Bonnie and Brook
Stewart and Trent
Brook
Brook
Brook Andrew : Eye to Eye
Asialink and MUMA have joined forces to tour this major survey of one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists through south and southeast Asia during 2008 and 2009: Starting with Yuchengco Museum, Manila on 24 July 2008, and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore on 7 November 2008.
Andrews, whose talents lie in his unique ability to marry aesthetics with complex conceptual and theoretical questions, addresses a range of subject matter, from the poetics of space, the spectacle of light and sight to the pressure of historical consciousness.
Brook Andrew: Eye to Eye is an exhibition that spans the artist’s practice over the past decade, encompassing a diverse range of disciplines, including photography, printmaking, sculpture and neon installations. This major survey of Andrew’s work interrogates the politics of difference and the implications of ‘the gaze’. Eye to eye and across land and cultures, Andrew explores the promising yet fractured grounds of our contemporary intercultural engagement. Reflecting equally on global mass media and traditional grass-roots aesthetics, the artist asks us to consider the construction of history and power, invisibility and identity — in its patina of black, white and shades of grey.
This exhibition has been developed by the Monash University Museum of Art and is supported the Australian Government through the Australian Visual Arts Touring Program of the Australia International Cultural Council, an initiative of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the Australia Council, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body and The Visual Arts and crafts strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Goverments.
CURATOR: Geraldine Barlow, curator/collection manager, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA)
BROOK ANDREW : THEME-PARK
BROOK ANDREW : THEME-PARK AAMU
Utrecht, Holland
16th October, 2008, to March 2009.
The exhibition combines new and recent work from The Island series, 2008, and video work Interviews, 2006, as well as creating site specific installation work incorporating Aboriginal objects from private and public museum collections including the Royal Museum of Central Africa (Musee Royal de l’Afrique Central), Brussels.
Installed over three levels, THEME-PARK will be the opposite of a conventional solo exhibition in a conventional museum. Brook Andrew intends to turn the museum itself into an exhibition object. Uncovering AAMU’s records and hidden objects, he will challenge the very notion of an ‘Aboriginal Art’ museum.
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- Exhibition entrance with ‘Theme Park’ neon ‘Clown I’ and ‘Clown II’
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- Clown II
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- ‘Lost’ installation detail
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- ‘Clown I’
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- ‘Old Memory’ installation view
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- ‘Interviews’, 2006
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- ‘Old Memory’ installation view
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- ‘Old Memory’ installation view
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- ‘Lost’, 2008
typical! Clichés of Jews and Others
typical! Clichés of Jews and Others The Jewish Museum
Jewish Museum Berlin – 20 March to 3 August 2008
Spertus Institute Chicago – 26 September 2008 to 18 January 2009
Jewish Museum Vienna – 7 February to 21 June 2009
»typical! Clichés of Jews and Others« is an exhibition about the stereotyped
seeing, perceiving, and compartmentalizing of images and objects.
Stereotypes and clichés are an integral part of our perception that shape
our image of ourselves and of “others” and our sense of belonging to a group
or a nation separate from other groups and nations. It’s impossible to
imagine pop culture without characterizations and classifications, which
through their simplification help us to overcome our fear of the unknown,
but at the same time can also provide us with a breeding ground for racist
ideologies.
