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By: Chris Barton
Date: 14th Feb 07
Medium: Photography
Drink: Anything, as long as you look good holding it
What:
Cock Fight – photographic exhibition by Amanda De Simone
Where:
McCulloch Gallery, 8 Rankins Lane Melbourne (off Lt Bourke Street, near Exhibition Street)
When:
Dates: 14 February – 7 March 2007
Opening: Opening 6:30pm Friday 16 February 2007
Times: Wed - Sat 12pm – 5pm
Related Links:
Crying Boy Fanclub feature on ThreeThousand
You don’t have to walk down King St too often to realise that humans (particularly men) behave like animals and in an Attenborough-esque analogy Cock Fight by local photographer Amanda De Simone draws a comparison between men’s club members and fighting cocks. Avoiding the broad-brush (or lens) the exhibition delves into ideas of masculine functionality in artificial environments and explores male personality and also purpose within a group. Basing portraits within the framework of the cockfight the work looks at perceptions of ‘strongest’, ‘proudest’, ‘maddest’, ‘fiercest’ and questions how these elements impact upon our social notions of a ‘pecking order’. Sometimes feathers are better when they’re ruffled.