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22/4/2004

Sicilian Chronicles

Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

Three exhibition on the theme of crime and corruption

Franco Zecchin
Curated by Pierre Chevalier

Dead finks don't talk
Gina Tornatore

Ulterior
Jay Younger

'WE TOLD OURSELVES that we could no longer go on being passive witnesses to these massacres: we had in our hands a tool that could be used to inform people and to combat the phenomenon by helping to forge a new awareness.' FRANCO ZECCHIN

The powerful documentary images of Franco Zecchin's Sicilian Chronicles are given a new context in relation to the contemporary works of two Brisbane artists, Jay Younger and Gina Tornatore in three interlocking exhibitions on the theme of crime and corruption. Franco Zecchin was one of the first photographers to methodically document the activities of the Mafia in Sicily. Now an internationally celebrated photographer, this exhibition brings together the work of the seventies and eighties that made him famous.

In contrast to Zecchin's classic black and white images, Jay Younger's lush prints in Ulterior set the scene for characters from the Brisvegas of Joh Bjelke-Petersen blending hot Hawaiian patterns with the images of individuals at the heart of the Fitzgerald Inquiry. The video work Dead Finks Don't Talk by rising Australian new-media artist Gina Tornatore currently based in London are ambiguous. Her cinematic narratives unfold the story to tell of a suicide . . . or is it murder?

Image: (c) Franco Zecchin Palermo, November 15 (detail) 1983

The Australian Centre for Photography is funded jointly by the Australia Council and the New South Wales Ministry for the Arts

For further information or pictures contact:
Robyn Johnston at the Australian Centre for Photography
on (02) 9332 1455 extension 203 at the voice prompt

23 April to 6 June 2004
Tuesday to Sunday 11.00am to 6.00pm FREE

Australian Centre for Photography
257 Oxford St, Paddington NSW 2021
tel: (02) 9332 1455 fax: (02) 9331 6887

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