SYLVIA SCHWENK / GOING GAGA WITH DADA

Sylvia Schwenk is directing a new work of performance art called 'Dada- When Up Is Down'. In the work, a group of everyday people will perform a Dadaist inspired piece during the opening of the 'Going Gaga with Dada' exhibition on Saturday 25th August at Brenda May Gallery.

Going Gaga with Dada: A Dedication to Spontaneity, Chaos, Innovation and Nonsense, is an exhibition that will seek to define the undefinable - with prints, collages, artists' books, zines, posters, typography and more. The exhibition will run from Tuesday 21st August to Saturday 8th September.

KEN + JULIA YONETANI @ 4A CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ASIAN ART

Ken + Julia Yonetani, What the Birds Knew, 2012, Uranium glass beads, aluminium wire, and UV lights.

Ken + Julia Yonetani, What the Birds Knew, 2012, Uranium glass beads, aluminium wire, and UV lights

Ken + Julia Yonetani are opening their solo exhibition What the Birds Knew at 4a Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 181-187 Hay St, Haymarket, on Thursday 9th August from 6-8pm. The artists will also be speaking as part of 4a's Lunchtime Talks at 12:30pm on Friday 17th August.

What the Birds Knew includes new large scale sculptural works made from radioactive uranium glass. A 6-metre long green ant will threateningly loom over visitors to the gallery, and a large scale chandelier will be visible 24 hours a day. The use of UV lights will make the uranium glow green, giving the works an ominous energy.

These new visually stunning and highly provocative works arise out of the artists’ concerns over the recent nuclear tragedy in Fukushima. The title of the exhibition refers to the alternative title for Akira Kurosawa’s 1955 post-war film I Live in Fear, in which the central character declares that the birds would flee if they knew of the impending environmental threats.

What the Birds Knew reflects shared cultural expressions of environmental anxieties within Indigenous Australian and Japanese culture, and whether these function as either warnings or premonitions.

Following on from this exhibition, Ken + Julia Yonetani will have a solo exhibition at Artereal Gallery this October. Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nuclear Nations is a response to the recent Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident and the phenomenon of radiation. This exhibition will feature a new, never before exhibited installation of Uranium chandeliers.

Ken + Julia Yonetani, Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nuclear Nations (Japan), 2012, metal, UV lighting, Uranium Glass

KEN + JULIA YONETANI @ 4A CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ASIAN ART

Ken + Julia Yonetani will soon open their solo exhibition What the Birds Knew at 4a Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. 

What the Birds Knew includes new large scale sculptural works made from radioactive uranium glass. A 6-metre long green ant will threateningly loom over visitors to the gallery, and a large scale chandelier will be visible 24 hours a day. The use of UV lights will make the uranium glow green, giving the works an ominous energy.

These new visually stunning and highly provocative works arise out of the artists’ concerns over the recent nuclear tragedy in Fukushima. The title of the exhibition refers to the alternative title for Akira Kurosawa’s 1955 post-war film I Live in Fear, in which the central character declares that the birds would flee if they knew of the impending environmental threats.

What the Birds Knew reflects shared cultural expressions of environmental anxieties within Indigenous Australian and Japanese culture, and whether these function as either warnings or premonitions.

The exhibition opening is 6-8pm, Thursday 9 August at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 181-187 Hay St, Haymarket. The artists will be speaking as part of 4A’s Lunchtime talks at 12.30pm Friday 17 August 2012.

Following on from this exhibition, Ken + Julia Yonetani will have a solo exhibition at Artereal Gallery this October. Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nuclear Nations is a response to the recent Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident and the phenomenon of radiation. This exhibition will feature a new, never before exhibited installation of Uranium chandeliers.

HYUN-HEE LEE A FINALIST IN THE WAVERLY ART PRIZE

 Remnants #1_2011

Remnants #2_2011

Congratulations to Hyun-Hee Lee, who is a finalist in the 2012 Waverly Art Prize. The Waverley Art Prize, now in its 26th year, is an acquisitive prize and a Waverley initiative to support and increase the profile of visual artists in Australia.

For anyone interested in viewing the Hyun-Hee's painting, new works can currently be seen in the Artereal Stockroom.

SYLVIA SCHWENK: BIRDS AND CLOUDS FROM ONE LIFE TO ANOTHER...

Sylvia Schwenk, birds and clouds from one life to another, 2011

Sylvia Schwenk is currently exhibiting work from her recent series birds and clouds from one life to another at Dyname Expo Gallery in Enschede, Holland and at Perron 1 / Het Loket Gallery in Delden, Holland until 25 May, 2012. 

A book of the same title celebrating the project, published by Euregio-Programm Grenswerte, was also  recently launched at the opening. The book includes an essay by Florian Waldvogel, the Director of the Hamburg Kunstverein, Germany. This project was commissioned by the European Union.

LIAM BENSON: NEW VIDEO WORKS

As part of his new body of work and current exhibition, Motherland, Liam Benson presents three new video works...

Motherland is performance artist Liam Benson’s social and political commentary on identity and nationhood and the alliances of monarchy, motherhood and masculinity.

 Liam Benson uses queer identity to gently subvert social perceptions of gender, race, culture, sexuality and national identity. He mines the visual language and communication formats of advertising and popular media to document his performances as both still photographs and video for a form of contemporary myth making.

Visit the gallery during May to see the full exhibition.

AZIX + CUCHER AT THE INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART

Aziz + Cucher_In Some Country Under a Sun and Some Clouds

A solo exhibition by Artereal artists Aziz + Cucher has recently opened at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Entitled Some People the exhibition features a new body of work by the New York-based collaborative of Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher. Working together since 1992, Aziz + Cucher are widely recognized as pioneers in the field of digital imaging. 

Through the use of digital animation, performance, video, and sound, Some People situates recent and current conflicts into a never-ending narrative that exists outside of a specific place and time. The outbreak of war between Israel and Lebanon in 2006 profoundly affected the artists, who have cultural and familial ties to the area. This conflict, in addition to witnessing firsthand the catastrophic events of 9/11, inspired Aziz + Cucher to embark on a new body of work exploring a cycle of tragic and absurd inevitability begun in antiquity that continues today. Some People was inspired in part by the late Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska's poem by the same name first published in 2001.

To hear Aziz + Cucher talk about their new work see the below video. The exhibition runs until 21 October 2012.

KEN + JULIA YONETANI FEATURED IN THE ART NEWSPAPER...

Ken + Julia Yonetani_Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works Industry of all Nuclear Nations (Germany, Japan)_2012

Ken + Julia Yonetani were recently interviewed by Elizabeth Fortescue about their new series of work, Crystal Palace: the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nuclear Nations, which features installation based sculptures made from Uranium glass exploring the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster in Japan and contemporary issues surrounding nuclear power.

To read their interview in The Art Newspaper click here. And keep an eye out for more sneak peaks at this work which will be exhibited at Artereal Gallery in October this year.

Ken + Julia are also included in a group show entitled Keeping Up Appearances at Nassauischer Kunstverein Gallery in Wiesbaden, Germany where they will exhibit a number of new Uranium works. The exhibition runs from 18 March - 6 May, 2012 and  addresses the issues which surround deception in all its different facets; from the question of originality and plagiarism in art, to the manner in which illusion has become an accepted part of everyday life...

Exhibiting artists include: Erik Blinderman & Lisa Rave / Matt Golden / Jeremy Hutchison / I. Helen Jilavu / Oliver Laric / Lech Majewski / Jenny Michel / Adrian Paci / Wilfredo Prieto / Susa Templin / Robert Voit  and Katrin Wegemann.

NEW WORK: ANNA SABADINI

Anna Sabadini_Copy of Pieros Discipline and Pierres Feeling_2011

Anna Sabadini_Moment, Glow_2011

Anna Sabadini_Piero's Light on Pierre's Pleasure_2011

Anna Sabadini_Moment, Shimmer_2011

For more information on Anna Sabadini click here or contact the gallery...

Sneak peak: Claude Jones

 Claude Jones, Rabbit Monkey Combat, preliminary sketch, 2010

Claude Jones, Catfight, preliminary sketch, 2010

Artereal Artist Claude Jones provides a sneak peak at some of the preliminary sketches which she is working on as part of her current artist residency at  The Vermont Studio Centre in America.

These sketches will become the basis for collages and paintings for her upcoming solo exhibition at Artereal in 2011...



New Works by Claude Jones...

Claude Jones, Cat and Mouse Games, 2010, watercolour, collage,

pencil and screenprint on paper, 100 x 95.5 cm

Claude Jones, Top Cats, 2010, watercolour, collage,

pencil and screenprint on paper, 115 x 110 cm

Recently arrived in the gallery...

Recently arrived new work by Claude Jones...

Claude Jones, Monkey Magic, 2010, screenprint,
watercolour and pencil, 95.5 x 100cm