STROBED
a calendar for emerging artist exhibition openings in sydney + a few exhibition reviews
Eat Your Art – Sensation Series: Taste [PolyMorph Art Gallery]
when: Opening night Tuesday 3 August 2010, from 7:30 – 9pm. Exhibition continues until Sunday August 29 2010.
cost: Free.
where: PolyMorph Art Gallery, 7/82 Enmore Road, Newtown.
From PolyMorph Art Gallery:
Our sense of Taste can be interpreted in many different ways- it relates not only to what we sense with our tongue but also to our aesthetic tastes in art, decorating, music and people. In this way taste is really about what we consume on many different levels, the clothes we wear and the art we buy.
We as a people, a culture and a community constantly consume, whether it be food, natural resources, land or last weeks Das Superpaper. Our world and community is based around contentions to do with consumption as it is the key to both our survival and our destruction. Debates rage on our use of earth’s resources and the fundamental pace of our consumption; consuming is an issue all of humanity has an opinion about.
Of course, our art reflects this. Postmodern Art has been defined as “pastiche” – blank parody, appropriation and conflation between high and low cultures is the logos for what art has supposedly “become”. Thus art is now an issue of consumption, as Brener’s graffiti of Malevich’s work and Damien Hirst’s For the Love of God so clearly express. We equate Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup with advertising, we buy copious cheap prints of Van Gogh and Mondrian; art celebrated for it “originality”. The endless consumption of old imagery to create new meaning has become a kind of cultural cannabalism- something that instead of drawing deeper understanding is concerned with pointing out a lack of meaning to begin with.
As the finale of Polymorph Art Gallery’s ‘Sensation Series’, ‘Eat Your Art’ will be a night of consumptive hedonistic excess. Work concerning the notion of appropriation and pastiche, that deals with rehashing images or logos, art as a consumable commodity, humanities consumption in general, and even art that is in fact edible will all be on display!
Artists Include:
Grace Kingston
Beth Dillon
Troy Hammerton
Caryn Griffin
Isaac Graves
Lleah Smith
Joseph Angert-Quilter
and many more…
