What:
Nick Mangan, The Colony
Where:
Main Gallery, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, 200 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
When:
2nd September Until 1st of October
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.
Medium: Installation
Drink: Long neck in a paper bag
Keywords: Nick Mangan, Gertrude Contempory Art Spaces, Gertrude Street, Art
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