group exhibition

Problem Solving: Espress Yourself

14 May 2009 - 13 June 2009

including Kain Picken & Rob McKenzie, A Constructed World, Claire Fontaine, Ester Partegas, Jota Castro, Hany Armanious, Steve Carr, Koji Ryui, Raquel Ormella, Pat Foster & Jen Berean, Liv Barrett, Christopher LG Hill, James Deutsher, Matthew Griffin, Renee So, Poklong Anading, Tony Garifalakis, Huseyin Sami, Guy benfield, Jon Campbell, Ida Ekblad

 

This show has been inspired by a sculpture we exhibited in May 2008 by artists Kain Picken & Rob McKenzie called Espress Yourself (Briony). At the beginning I was considering the concept of espress[ing] yourself, in life and in the art world, and why they chose that title. Why they chose to put an espresso machine on a plinth on a rug on a coffee table, so I conceived a project show of artists who make sculpture in order for me to reveal the private side of curating. One aim of this project is for us to think about curating as a personal/private act rather than a didactic one, to remove the moral and intellectual instruction implicit in many group exhibitions. As a result I personally hope to learn more about all the pieces in the show. So you can see this project as my very own art dealer master-class where I arrange an invited group of artists in a room with one particular work in order to learn more about an object I represent, and in-turn what it means to represent something.
 
The idea of curating a show around one artwork in an attempt to learn more, or find a new context for that work is more appealing to me than putting together a show of sculpture in order to make a weak half-claim to what is 'happening' in art right now. Some of the works in the show I have selected from existing pieces, the rest will be new work made for the show.  
Jarrod

 

Problem Solving: Espress Yourself 2009

Installation View
Uplands Gallery, Prahran

Problem Solving: Espress Yourself 2009

Installation View
Uplands Gallery, Prahran

Problem Solving: Espress Yourself 2009

Installation View
Uplands Gallery, Prahran

Problem Solving: Espress Yourself 2009

Installation View
Uplands Gallery, Prahran

Kain Picken & Rob McKenzie, A History of Manners 2009

solid granite side table, otto stool and 2 face vase
114 x 50 x 50 cm

Koji Ryui, The Gift 3 2009

polystyrene, spray paint
200 x 38 x 19 cm

Christopher LG Hill, Fiscal Light 2009

various media
dimensions variable

Ida Ekblad 2009

Primative Sculpture 2008

Untitled 2009

glazed ceramic
31 x 29 x 20 cm

Huseyin Sami (Left) Paint Pile Paphos (Right) Golden Egg 2009

household paint acrylic paint, paint cans, plaint lid, plastic bucket
courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

Pokolong Anading, Anonymity no. 005 2005

film transparency, lightbox
20.32 x 25.4 cm

Tuttles in the Charter Club Key Chain, Keys to Orlando (Landy) Perez’s Office. (broken iphone) 2009

eys, broken first generation iphone, African fly swatter, carabiner, costume jewellery, musk incense, belts, chain, beads
110cm High

Ballistic Cliche (Jane Fonda) 2008

engraved 38 calibre bullets, timber shelf
dimensions variable

Ballistic Cliche (Freidrich Neitzsche) 2008

engraved 38 calibre bullets, timber shelf
dimensions variable

Antler 2008

hand-blown scientific glass, foam, stainless steel
41 x 6 x 14

Antler 2008

hand-blown scientific glass, foam, stainless steel
50 x 40 x 18 cm

Varied Noise Stamps 2009

rubber stamps
dimensions variable

Hany Armanious, Temple 2009

cast polyurethane, pigment
102 x 26 x 26 cm (courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney)

yeah 2009

paint stirrers, paint brushes, enamel and acrylic paint
61.5 x 109.5 cm irregular

Pat Foster & Jen berean, on public 2009

etched glass and aluminium frame

Captain No Beard 2007

bronze
43 x 33.5 cm

Esther Partegas, Less World 2006

acrylic paint on aluminium
dimensions variable

A Constructed World 2003

perspex, plastic, silver
10 x 8 x 9 cm

James Deutsher, Wireless in Bondage 2009

perspex, Apple Keyboard, rope
65 x 45 x 32 cm

Claire Fontaine, I 2009

high definition video, looped
4 minutes 20 seconds

Minor Threat 2007

magazine, sugar, desicated coconut, glucose syrup (sources include wheat), milk solids, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, invert sugar, vegetable fat, emulsifiers (417 soy lectin), humectant (glycerol), salt, flavour, milk chocolatecontains a minimum of 25% cocoa solids and 22% milk solids, may contain peanuts,tree nuts and egg products
dimensions variable

Liv Barrett, This is water I am a fish / The Invisible Fabric of the Universe 2009

cotton, nylon, polyester, digital prints, books, glass. registered post carbon copy, pins, paper, glue, double sided tape
dimensions variable

Seguro 2007

convex security mirrors, rubber dildo, handcuffs
dimensions variable

Untitled 2009

glazed ceramic
31 x 29 x 20 cm