ACCA @ MIRKA
AT TOLARNO HOTEL
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Alex Pittendrigh
A little light relief
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4 March - 31 May 2008
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Melbourne artist Alex Pittendrigh has created sixteen sculptural reliefs out of Blu-Tack for a new exhibition at ACCA @ Mirka.
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Pittendrigh fashions Blu-Tack onto wooden panels, creating intricate filigree landscapes that grow, like vines or lily leaves, across the surface, weaving their way across the time and space of art history.
Pittendrigh was fascinated by the way office workers created small animals and other shapes out of Blu-Tack when he worked for a time as a city foot courier. “There was this microscopic world of tiny personal practices, on company time, going on all around, so that’s one thing that stuck in my mind a long time, long before I even thought about using Blu-Tack for this show,” he says.
Pittendrigh’s beautifully works are far removed from the mundane office doodles he saw continuously displayed on computer screens and pin-up boards around the city – his meandering, subconsciously rendered lines are an outgrowth of the psychological and the architectural.
Alex Pittendrigh is a Melbourne-based artist who has had works shown at various galleries including Gertrude St Contemporary Art Spaces, CLUBS and at ACCA. Most recently he has had a solo exhibition at the Murray White Room.
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Alex Pittendrigh at ACCA @ Mirka: 4 March to 31st May, 2008.
ACCA @ MIRKA is a collaboration between the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Mirka at Tolarno Hotel, presented by Sanpellegrino. ACCA will curate four projects by emerging Australian artists each year, continuing the tradition of bringing great contemporary art to this unique and historic restaurant space.
For further media information: Katrina Hall - 0421 153 046
kathall@ozemail.com.au
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Mirka at Tolarno Hotel
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With the opening of Mirka at Tolarno Hotel Guy Grossi returns to the original kitchen in which he first started cooking the ‘sofrito’ with his father and Mirka Mora restores the joyous murals she painted in the main dinning room during the 60s. An amazing piece of Melbourne’s cultural and culinary history has come full circle launching an exciting new chapter in the life of a Melbourne icon.
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ACCA
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The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art is Melbourne’s leading contemporary art gallery presenting the most challenging, innovative and creative visual art of our time. ACCA brings the latest and most significant artwork by living artists from around the world to Melbourne audiences, and commissions new artworks by local and international artists.
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