Brook Andrew: Eye to Eye
ARTIST: Brook Andrew
CURATOR: Geraldine Barlow, curator/collection manager, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA).
Asialink and MUMA have joined forces to tour this major survey of one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists through south and southeast Asia.
Andrews, whose talents lie in his unique ability to marry aesthetics with complex conceptual and theoretical questions, addresses a range of subject matter, from the poetics of space, the spectacle of light and sight to the pressure of historical consciousness.
Brook Andrew: Eye to Eye is an exhibition that spans the artist's practice over the past decade, encompassing a diverse range of disciplines, including photography, printmaking, sculpture and neon installations. This major survey of Andrew’s work interrogates the politics of difference and the implications of 'the gaze'. Eye to eye and across land and cultures, Andrew explores the promising yet fractured grounds of our contemporary intercultural engagement. Reflecting equally on global mass media and traditional grass-roots aesthetics, the artist asks us to consider the construction of history and power, invisibility and identity — in its patina of black, white and shades of grey.
This exhibition has been developed by the Monash University Museum of Art and is supported the Australian Government through the Australian Visual Arts Touring Program of the Australia International Cultural Council, an initiative of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the Australia Council, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body and The Visual Arts and crafts strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Goverments.
Artist appears courtesy of Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne.
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Still (Contention series) |
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(Kalar Midday series) |
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Blackblack |
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I split your gaze 1997 C-type photograph 140 x 130 x 4.5 cm |
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Suitcase #1 2007 Aluminium and applied paint finish Edition 1/5 |
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Polemics
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Opinion as crime (of the unseen) 2001 Edition 1/5 Ilfochrome print, 78.2 x 118.2 cm |
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YOU’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE BLACK (white friend) 2006 Installation: animated neon and wall painting 900.0 x 550.0 cm |
Exhibition dates & venues:
Manila: 24 July - 30 August 2008, Yuchengco Museum
Singapore: 7 November - 6 December 2008, NAFA Nanyang Academy of Fine Art
Bangkok: 26 June - 19 July, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre