The Sexy And The Sumptuous
To Adorn The Walls At ACCA
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Swoon to Turn Up the Heat on Melbourne's Winter
The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) will turn up the heat in Melbourne this winter with its latest exhibition Swoon, which will expose a world of saucy, hot, lush art when it opens on Friday, May 28.
Featuring works by seven artists, Swoon will present a sizzling alternative to cool minimalism that embraces the groovy and the gorgeous. Works will range from video installations and works on paper to painting and sculpture.
Swoon will explore the hedonistic delights of pop in paintings by Christopher Langton and Jan Nelson, and grubby up the pristine surfaces of minimalism with sexy, saturated paintings by Dale Frank. Swoon addresses the liminal slide of space and self. In installations by David Rosetzky, Leslie Eastman, George Tillianakis and Sean Meilak, Swoon will highlight sex, sexuality, and persona in an exploration of artistic identity.
Swoon will entice the viewer to leave behind the mundane, and indulge in a world of over-sized lollies, mirrored architectural configurations, smooth skin and sun tan lotion.
In addition, the Swoon catalogue will feature works by the Cardigan Collective, five new fiction writings by Melbourne's most exciting new authors. Extending its collaboration with the Cardigan Collective, ACCA will present fast, loose fiction by George Dunford, Jennifer Lee, Rose Mulready, Kate Reeves and Sean M. Whelan.
"In many ways Swoon is the decadent underbelly of minimalism. Mannerist and opulent, it moves around the worlds of cultural reflection to offer us views that are heightened, exaggerated and accelerated,” says ACCA Artistic Director, Juliana Engberg. “The taut surface of the minimal canvas becomes the stretched, sexed up contrapposto body of present day pop. This sense of the elastic and ecstatic body is explored in both the art works on display and in the fictional mythologies created by some of Melbourne's newest and most interesting crop of writers."
Swoon will be presented alongside the exhibition John Nixon EPW: 2004.
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 111 Sturt Street, Southbank. Swoon and John Nixon EPW:2004 are open from Friday, May 28 until Sunday, July 25.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11am-6pm. By appointment Mondays ACCA is open on public holidays with the exception of Christmas Day and Good Friday
Admission: Free
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