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13/7/2004

Two exhibitions

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts PICA, Perth

The BYOG Projects
Trevor Richards (WA)

2004 will mark the 5th year of Trevor Richards' BYOG project. Conceived as an exploration of four signature colours- blue , yellow, orange and green, this large body of work now comprises paintings, drawings, furniture, found objects, architectural interventions and photography. This long term project has in the vicinity of 300 individual components (and growing), and has the potential to be 'one massive, immense and almost limitless megawork enlivened by abundant variations'. As a way of defining this project the artist will show selected works from the BYOG collection at PICA. Over the last 5 years the general direction of his work has been related to connections between late modernist painting and popular/ mass culture. What interests Richards is the juxtaposition or merging of ideas connected with minimalism and popular culture. The repetitive and systematic, serial nature of the works in the show feeds off both tendencies, particularly as minimalism becomes integrated into contemporary mass culture and mass culture becomes conditioned to the industrial aesthetic. Thus the works can be simultaneously significant and trite, serious and playful, and accessible and inpenetrable.

Trevor Richards, 2004
(quote John Stringer, catalogue essay, 2003)

opening: Wednesday July 14, 6pm
exhibiting: July 15 - August 15, 2004
free admission

exhibiting: July 15 - August 15

Image: a work by Trevor Richards
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Fear of Falling
Merrick Belyea (WA)

Merrick paints the underside of the city, choosing the streets, the suburbs and the city at night to reveal an inky deep, subterranean landscape inhabited by solitary and anonymous figures who emerge from and retreat into the darkness. These images are sombre reflection of urban life and portray a mysterious vision of Perth. In this new series we are confronted with falling, screaming, tortured victims of this urban paranoia; paranoia born out of local and global concerns and images that offer us no resolution.

exhibiting: July 15 - August 15
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studio exhibitions

Seeing and Not Seeing - Gao Xu Yong (WA)
Gao's paintings on canvas are a response to his recognition of the changes that have taken place within the visual arts over thousands of years and more broadly, art's capacity to effect change.
In recognising that art has moved beyond the old dichototomies of the traditional versus the contemporary, Gao seeks to explore his growing recognition of the common humanity that exists beyond the narrow frontiers of nations, races, religions and cultures. Gao's conceptual approach is concerned with spirituality, understood as embracing both nature and culture as a means of bringing the individual into a deeper relationship with the whole.

Bodies / Commodities - Ruth Parker (WA)
This exhibition - an inter-play of junk mail advertising, self-referential photography and sculpture - explores concepts of fragmentation, embodiment and commodification.
Inspired by Dadaist notions of collage, junk mail is liberated from its relationship with the letterbox. It is cut, distorted, re-contextualised and juxtaposed with other mediums, to create a space to reflect on the relationship between our bodies and the commodities, which people our lives. Focusing on an inter-weaving of fragmented images of women's bodies and household gadgets, entertainment systems and tools, the installation raises questions about the way in which, women's bodies continue to be utilised as sites for the exchange of meaning and information.

The Golden Apple - Helen Smith (WA)
This exhibition of photographs, investigates ways in which elaborate constructs of pleasure are defined through differing social and cultural conditions ultimately as commodities.
This new series progresses the thematic structure of earlier work, and concentrates on constructed notions of desirability. It signifies a complex web of hopes and needs that may be satisfied or left wanting, by those establishments that commercialise and commodify human sexuality. Correlations are also drawn between the brothel interior and commercial interiors, focussing on the minute details that combine to tantalise, entice, seduce and finally, sell.

exhibiting: July 15 - August 15

Free Admission, Tue - Sun, 11am - 7pm

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
51 James St, Perth Cultural Centre

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