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By: Damien Worst
Date: 4th Oct 06
Medium: Installation
Drink: Anything, as long as you look good holding it
What:
Death and Preservation
When:
Wed-Fri 11.30-4.30, Sat 12-5
Where:
Viewing Space Gallery, Room 16, Level 6, Nicholas Building (cnr. Flinders Lane and Bourke), Melbourne
How much:
Free
The Nicholas Building is a work of art in itself, and if you go there to visit the Collected Works bookshop, or one of the many odd little shops hidden within, you've probably come across the Viewing Space atleast once.
Death and Preservation is an exhibit perfectly suited to the room and to the building. A scenario opens up as soon as you walk in; lysergic despair and cold stone on one hand, manic passion and wry whimsy on the other. The exhibit's collective use of colour is startling, perhaps more so than if exhibited in a more conventional ‘white cube’.
Group exhibit themes rarely reflect anything more than a postscript, but in Death and Preservation there is a sense of collective narrative. Intentional or not, it gives the sense that these artists aren't a crop of lo-fi experimenters, but instead something more daring, with a technical care that is so usually absent.