SIM - too contraversial to be shown, NOT TRUE
By sim
Art Monthly Australia, August 2006, no 192
Lost in Translation by Ashley Crawford, pg 23 - 26
I bought the Art monthly australia journal mainly because of the pretty colours on the front with the toy army man, not realising how BORING this journal really was. The articles didnt seem to focus on any real interesting artists, or ones that i would think are interesting. So it was a waste of money, kind of, because i did find one article which caught my attention. The reason it caught my attention is because it talked about 2 Australian artists exhibiting their work overseas and it being censored/not shown.
Tony Garifalakis was meant to exhibit his work in the Venice Biennale, for a show called 'Silenzi', but at the very last moment the priests and another artist complained about its content.
Because Garifalakis was given a church to produce his work in, in Venice, he thought that the church was deconsecrated, in fact it wasnt and this is what caused the contraversy. His work in my opinion wasnt that bad, i didnt think it was nearly as contraversial as some of the work ive seen by artists like Damien Hirst with his animal halves preserved in formaldihyde. Maybe his work was a little satanic, and went against the catholic ideals, but art should be about causing a stir.
The other artist was Pat Brassington who was to exhibit in a Vietnamese Art exhibition called 'Supernatural Artificial: Australian Photography Today', but again at the last minute some of the officials agreed that her work was not to be shown. "This photo makes me feel very bad inside." One of the officials actually said this after viewing her print. I guess this really frustrates me because this one little comment caused enough grief to have the work out of the exhibition. Also the work by Brassington to me doesnt really come anywhere close to being horrible or "makes me feel very bad inside". I think its just ignorance on the officials part, because the artist may not have intended the work to be viewed in that context, but then again this does show how sometimes the artist isnt really considered much anymore, and that the statement the work purveys overpowers them. In the end it could also be a clash of cultures, because these two artists work would have no problem being shown here in Australia, but for Venice and Vietnam they obvioulsy do.
(ps i just realised someone else did the same article, but i dont think that matters, oh and logging on to this blog took me about 3 hours for it to work, no exaggeration at all there. that is my rant. thankyou. sim)
http://www.ccp.org.au/data/images/exhibit/tony_garifalakis03.jpg
http://www.threethousand.com.au/archive/2005/november/issue031/pics/goods.jpg
http://www.enfocarte.com/4.23/brassington/brassington_mini.jpg
Art Monthly Australia, August 2006, no 192
Lost in Translation by Ashley Crawford, pg 23 - 26
I bought the Art monthly australia journal mainly because of the pretty colours on the front with the toy army man, not realising how BORING this journal really was. The articles didnt seem to focus on any real interesting artists, or ones that i would think are interesting. So it was a waste of money, kind of, because i did find one article which caught my attention. The reason it caught my attention is because it talked about 2 Australian artists exhibiting their work overseas and it being censored/not shown.
Tony Garifalakis was meant to exhibit his work in the Venice Biennale, for a show called 'Silenzi', but at the very last moment the priests and another artist complained about its content.
Because Garifalakis was given a church to produce his work in, in Venice, he thought that the church was deconsecrated, in fact it wasnt and this is what caused the contraversy. His work in my opinion wasnt that bad, i didnt think it was nearly as contraversial as some of the work ive seen by artists like Damien Hirst with his animal halves preserved in formaldihyde. Maybe his work was a little satanic, and went against the catholic ideals, but art should be about causing a stir. 
The other artist was Pat Brassington who was to exhibit in a Vietnamese Art exhibition called 'Supernatural Artificial: Australian Photography Today', but again at the last minute some of the officials agreed that her work was not to be shown. "This photo makes me feel very bad inside." One of the officials actually said this after viewing her print. I guess this really frustrates me because this one little comment caused enough grief to have the work out of the exhibition. Also the work by Brassington to me doesnt really come anywhere close to being horrible or "makes me feel very bad inside". I think its just ignorance on the officials part, because the artist may not have intended the work to be viewed in that context, but then again this does show how sometimes the artist isnt really considered much anymore, and that the statement the work purveys overpowers them. In the end it could also be a clash of cultures, because these two artists work would have no problem being shown here in Australia, but for Venice and Vietnam they obvioulsy do.
(ps i just realised someone else did the same article, but i dont think that matters, oh and logging on to this blog took me about 3 hours for it to work, no exaggeration at all there. that is my rant. thankyou. sim)
http://www.ccp.org.au/data/images/exhibit/tony_garifalakis03.jpg
http://www.threethousand.com.au/archive/2005/november/issue031/pics/goods.jpg
http://www.enfocarte.com/4.23/brassington/brassington_mini.jpg
posted by Polly Dance at 11:27 PM
1 Comments:
gee: Yeah art monthly drives me battshit as well. I couldnt find much there either
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