Keyword results: Gertrude Contempory Art Spaces
The Garden of Interior Delights
Some people see genitals in everything. The vegetable aisle, certain 'art' sculptures in Port Melbourne or simply their boss's face; the world is funnier for its phallic objects. Kate Just is one who can spot a sexual organ from miles away. When examining Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights she looked past the nudes with multiple legs and people stroking giant fish in the foreground and went straight for the pink fountain in the left panel.
21:100:100
Never sure how to tell your Merzbow from your Masona, your Jandek from your Scott Walker, or understood why John Zorn is a big deal? Don't have a clue who any of these people are?
Sound art, drone, noise, improvisation, avant-garde: confusing terms that can baffle us regular folk and leave us asking, ‘Will it be one of those wrist-slitty gigs again?'
As with any conundrum, it's best to turn to a professional.
Octopus 8 launch - The Softness in the Rock: Hope in Disappointing Times
What:
Octopus 8 launch - The Softness in the Rock: Hope in Disappointing Times
Where:
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, 200 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
When:
Fri July 4, 6-8pm
How much:
Free!
Description:
Gertrude's annual Octopus show always exceeds anyone's expectations of an art launch. It is Plato's idea of an opening. This year's exhibition is curated by the incredible Emily Cormack. It's about the cute patheticness (is that a word?) of hope and optimism in a generally f*cked world.
Event: Launch
Stimulus: A
Octopus 7: don't show me your poetry
As I write this there's only four sleeps to go 'til Australian Idol. Yay! I'm a big fan. What I like is not the talent or the public shaming of clownish contestants. No sir. Because I'm a "sophisticated adult", what I dig is this far more subtle thing. It's that no matter how far the singers get in the competition, right up until making their album even, they seem to carry the clammy stench of the bedroom with them.
Nick Mangan, The Colony
Nick Mangan's sculptural works are molecular, elemental and intricate. They are created from natural and man-made materials such as wood, bone, crystal and hair, which are fused together in a curious fashion.
The Colony has taken over the main gallery at Gertrude St with wooden monuments of crystallised growths and strange mutations.
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