Author results: Damien Worst
Very Butchered Christmas Show
If you walk down Bourke St Mall at this time of year, you could be forgiven for thinking that Christmas is ultimately a time for shopping. For buying a whole lot of stuff that no one really wants, and that they will return on December 26. Sometimes it’s nice to be reminded that Christmas is also a time for friends, for catching up with the people who have supported you during the year and giving them something they really appreciate – like a drink.
Supple
Bus Gallery's corridor space is about as wide as the email/website you're reading, but as Alice Lang's bulbous and grotesque Supple, you'll feel like you're communing with an alien god in an uneasy ceremony somewhere in deep space. Three portraits of the art-parasite in symbiosis with a willing participant sit on the left of the gallery space, while the thing itself sits ominously at the rear, pulsating and coruscating with equal parts sensuality and dread.
Skeleta 2006
From what we can work out, it’s kind of like an artist chain gang. Coming up at Westspace, Skeleta 2006 is a themeless mutating exhibition comprising over 30 artists, all three Westspace galleries and a three-round selection process.
The project starts with the work of 11 committee members, who in turn each choose an arty acquaintance, friend or stranger to exhibit with them.
The Guild: Second Edition ‘Outside Over Here’
What follows is something of a fable from design lore. In late 2005, 30 photographers, illustrators and designers from several different countries got together and each created an artwork as a gift to eachother. This same artwork was then compiled into a publication called The Guild, of which only 40 copies were ever printed, and only 10 ever sold to the public.
espresso < expressway
All architects don’t just wear square-framed glasses and black turtle-necks, and neither does their design just focus upon buildings. Exhibition espresso < expressway, by renowned architects Denton Corker Marshall, spans 20 years of their history from the creation of a silver coffee table for the National Gallery of Victoria to a coffee spoon for Italian design factory Alessi.
Picasso: Love & War 1935-1945
She cut herself, and he liked it. The great Spaniard Pablo Picasso is renown for his bright cubist masterpieces, but from 1935-1945 his world was steeped in the dark romance of a figure called Dora Maar.
A photographer, revered beauty and self-mutilator, Maar was Picasso’s lover in pre-war Paris.
F.F.F - Kostas Seremetis
Children around the world would probably cry if Mickey Mouse ever used a one finger salute, but at the hands of New York artist Kostas Seremetis the sweet rodent not only lifts his middle finger but throws in an ‘f’ word for good measure.
Renown for his abstract pop-art interpretations recalling battles of good vs evil, Kostas’s first Australian exhibition ‘F.
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