Nick Mangan, The Colony

7th Sep 05
Nick Mangan, The Colony Look

What:
Nick Mangan, The Colony

Where:
Main Gallery, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, 200 Gertrude St, Fitzroy

When:
2nd September Until 1st of October

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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. Tribal references abound in pointed spears, tufts of hair and a wooden drum with a pulsating bass. In Mangan's work we find a beauty that is unexpected and strange juxtapositions that spark something marvellous. As we regard with awe the magnificence of The Colony, we realise it could be the blossom after the apocalypse- an unsettling element, of nature triumphing over man.

Artists currently exhibiting in other spaces at Gertrudes are Daniel Von Sturmer and Blair Trethowan.

By Damien Worst

Medium: Installation

Drink: Long neck in a paper bag

Keywords: Nick Mangan, Gertrude Contempory Art Spaces, Gertrude Street, Art

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