Lexier, Zafiriou
dal 20/11/2001 al 15/12/2001
Segnalato da
20/11/2001
Lexier, Zafiriou
Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
Two exhibitions at Gitte Weise Gallery. A coin is given away every hour for the duration of the exhibition. A print is made by inking an etching plate only once and pulling as many prints until the ink runs out. A sign displays a 5-word phrase that is changed everyday. These are just three of the new works that Micah Lexier has produced for his second solo exhibition. 'Invalid Format' at Room 35 is an exhibition of the traces of a performance project where the artist Yiorgos Zafiriou carried and used crutches for an entire year.
Two exhibitions at Gitte Weise Gallery.
MICAH LEXIER
A coin is given away every hour for the duration of the exhibition.
A print is made by inking an etching plate only once and pulling as many prints until the ink runs out.
A sign displays a 5-word phrase that is changed everyday.
These are just three of the new works that Micah Lexier has produced for his second solo
exhibition at Gitte Weise Gallery.
Micah Lexier is a Canadian artist living in New York City.
Presently he is in residence at the Gunnery Studios in Woolloomooloo and almost all of the
sculptures in this exhibition were produced while in Sydney.
Lexier's surprisingly simple artworks are meditations on measurement, both existing and invented.
His eclectic use of materials, from neon to custom-minted coins to printed cards often mix strict conceptual
structures with random decisions.
The resulting works vary from the severely minimal to the playfully participatory.
Long fascinated with the theme of the passage of time and with issues of uniqueness, Lexier has created new work which continues to pursue these interests while exploring a variety of time-based processes.
Tuesday - Saturday 11-6pm, or by appointment.
ROOM 35
YIORGOS ZAFIRIOU
Invalid Format
Invalid Format is one of those troubling digital decal instructions or commands that
can signal an imminent failure or disconnection to the sources of power and knowledge.
Invalid Format is an exhibition of the
traces of a performance project where the artist carried and used crutches for an entire year.
Zafiriou did not actually need the
crutches.
He employed them as a gesture of both taking up and relinquishing control of his body
and its wider reception in
society.
In many ways this performance is the manifestation and acting out of an engrossing but aggressive fantasy.
There is the
air of childhood whimsy and wilfulness- what would happen if I put our puppy into the microwave?
The carnival grotesque is an
important element in Zafiriou's project.
The exaggerated and often distorting embrace of generally degraded forms and images is
an aesthetic antidote to what Andre Breton called the life of dogs.
Rather than be defeated by the monsters of the everyday,
Zafiriou's Invalid Format confronts the particular realities of the abled and disabled body
often to comic and pointed political
effect.
Opening Wednesday 21 November 6 - 8pm
Tuesday - Saturday 11 - 6 or by appointment.
For further information please contact
Gitte Weise Gallery
tel/fax + 61 2 9360 2659 56
Sutherland Street - Paddington NSW 2021