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By: Damien Worst
Date: 16th Aug 06
Medium: Installation
Drink: Bottle of red
What:
Worlds Apart
Where:
Sutton Gallery, 254 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
When:
Until August 23
Tues - Sat, 11-5
How much:
Free
Contact:
9416 0727 or online
Image by:
David Rosetsky
Sticks and Stones, 2006
Rosetzky works across a number of art genres and materials that have always allowed his figures a certain amount of distance, but Worlds Apart takes another tack, creating enough room in front of the images for you to pick apart the settings and faces put together.
A blank description of the work would describe it as a deconstruction of advertising imagery, but what really goes on in Worlds Apart is that you're watching figures from another zone of reality go through vast internal shifts. Then, if you are so inclined, the images and footage act as a critique of the world of oiled chests and prefigured poses.
What you notice first is that the figures we watch are engaged in their own contemplations; the task ahead, measuring a gaze or looking aside the camera. The result is almost unexpected, a deeply relaxed but instantly engaged experience. On two separate visits, the gallery was busy with a similar argument about the relative meaning of lighting in one of the DVD projection pieces. Being that silence is art's worst critic, this speaks volumes about the warmth of Rosetzky's new work.