Thukral and Tagra | e-invite and newsletter
Featuring in the upcoming 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, India’s emerging dynamic art duo Jiten Thukral & Sumir Tagra work collaboratively in a wide variety of media including painting, sculpture, installation, video, graphic and product design, websites, music and fashion.
Thukral & Tagra blur the lines between fine art and popular culture, product placement and exhibition design, artistic inspiration and media hype.
The work focuses on the dream-come-true burgeoning of consumer culture and a newly prevalent postmodern architectural style that can be found throughout India and is commonly referred to as “Punjabi Baroque.”
Vulgar and ostentatious, confused and desperately misguided, the style has been propagated by builders without the assistance of architects, reflecting the jumble of sensibilities that come together to create the new exploding middle-class of India.
T&T pump up the volume to turn these suburban homes into surrealist castles, sugar coated and floating on clouds of flowers. In paintings and sculptures, they explore this aesthetic of the proudly bastardized, the boisterous Mamma’s boys who pretend to be gangsters, the teenage farmers who dream of making it big in Bollywood.
In other news…
Art Investment 50% Tax Break for small businesses
The Australian Tax Office has announced that small businesses (up to $2M turnover) are eligible to receive an investment allowance of 50% on ne Australian artworks purchased before 31 December 2009. Please contact us if you’d like further information
Congratulations to …..
John Citizen has won the inaugural non-acquisitive $10,000.00 ROI Art Prize with a painting from the Coloured People series.
Deborah Kelly’s work Tank Man Tango, a dance memorial for the 20th anniversary of the demonstrations at Tiananmen Square has won the $20,000
Acquisitive 2009 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award at Campbelltown Art Centre.
Tank Man Tango has also been short listed for the international dance online short film festival (IDILL) Award, which you can vote for at http://www.idill.eu/nst/en/vote.html
A five minute compilation of Tank Man Tango around the world, compiled by Sumugan Sivanesan can be voted for
at http://www.babelgum.com/4006872/tank-man-tango-tiananmen-memorial.html
Deborah also features in the new book How to Make Trouble and Influence People by Iain McIntyre
International flights….
Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy’s new work PREMS will be on show La BF15, Lyon as part of the Biennale de Lyon from 20 November to January 30. More information on the project can be downloaded at http://www.labf15.org/expo.php?lang=en&pop=news
Jess MacNeil features in On the Border of Cinema and Painting : REDUX from 19 to 22 December at Uplink in Shibuya, Tokyo
Domestic flights…
Gordon Bennett features in Cubism & Australian Art at Heide Museum of Modern Art,
Melbourne from 24 November to 8 April.
One of John Citizen’s ‘Interior’ paintings has been included in Cache at Viscopy Gallery (Blackfriars off Broadway), Viscopy’s new exhibition space in Sydney until December 22.
Fiona Lowry is part of Wax On - From Cronulla to Palm Beach and Beyond, curated by Nell Schofield at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Sydney, from 5 December to 31 January.
Fiona is also part of Feminism Never Happened at Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane from 30 January to 27 March and The University of Queensland National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize at The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane from 28 November to 24 January.
Grant Stevens features in QUEENSLAND ART 2009, Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane from 5 December to 20 February.