Brook Andrew
dal 11/4/2014 al 31/5/2014
Segnalato da
11/4/2014
Brook Andrew
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
'De Anima' is a major new video installation comprising newly filmed, found ethnographic and other archival film footage that visually and physically interacts with the other sculptural and painterly elements.
CATALYST: Katherine Hannay Visual Arts Commission
A NETS Victoria exhibition curated by Bridget Crone for The Cinemas Project
Brook Andrew’s De Anima is a major new artwork enabled by a philanthropic grant -CATALYST: Katherine Hannay Visual Arts Commission. A feast of the moving image, performance and sculpture, De Anima immerses the viewer in a world of seeing and being that tests truth and history to the very questioning of our soul.
CATALYST: Katherine Hannay Visual Arts Commission is a unique charitable grant that supports Australian visual artists to work in partnership with a cultural not-for- profit organisation to realise a major new work at a pivotal moment in their career.
Brook Andrew’s commission De Anima will be a major new video installation comprising newly filmed, found ethnographic and other archival film footage that will visually and physically interact with the other sculptural and painterly elements – including a trompe l’oeil wall, soft sculptures, sound and costume.
When the viewer enters the installation of De Anima, as with the classic trompe l'oeil, it is envisaged that the viewer will become lost in between the worlds of deceit (or fiction) and truth. The mural (painted by the artist) and the costumes (replete with Wiradjuri text and pattern) will provide a lively interaction with the film. The project aims to question the way in which representations – or pictures of those around us – are produced. By manipulating the footage Andrew aims to address the politics of representation – and the ever-present confusion of who can represent whom – in order to encourage the exploration of how we view history.
De Anima is presented by Bendigo Art Gallery as a part of The Cinemas Project - a statewide presentation of five ambitious new contemporary artworks by Brook Andrew, Bianca Hester, Lily Hibberd, Mikala Dwyer and Tom Nicholson.
Brook Andrew is represented by Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris/Bruxelles.
Opening: 3 - 4 pm, Saturday 12 April 2014
Bendigo Art Gallery, copyright 2014
42 View Street, Bendigo, VIC 3550
Open daily 10am - 5pm (except Christmas Day)
Entry is by donation