Stephen Haley - Mesh: Paintings, Virtual Photographs & Projected Spaces
What:
Stephen Haley - Mesh: Paintings, Virtual Photographs & Projected Spaces
When:
Everyday 12-5pm until this Sunday
Where:
Nellie Castan Gallery, L1 12 River Street, South Yarra
How much:
Free
Contact:
03 9804 7366
This small exhibition in South Yarra is only on for a few more days, but is a compelling enough concept to make the journey. Stephen Haley's Mesh is a series of virtual landscapes, and just how they are produced is half the art; a complex series of computer manipulations that abstract the idea of a photograph to the absolute degree; they are everything but photos. A wire-framed model, or mesh, takes on the prime position in Haley's work, resulting in some fantastically bizarre results.
There's a compelling noir element to these cityscapes and murmuring worlds; eschewing the cold brutality of a good deal of computer generated art and opting for those old familiar feelings; isolation against the world, beauty with a capital B, and paranoia. The sensations invited by a simple wire-frame grid are mesmerising (as anybody navigating the grid of the CBD drunk can attest) and Haley's images and installations force the intellectual to cave in to more physical responses.
Medium: Mixed
Drink: Bottle of red
Keywords: Nellie Castan Gallery, Art, Eclectic
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