AUTHOR latest

["lisa kelly alex gawronski" <blaugrau@bangkok.com>]

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showing this week at BLAUGRAU,





drawings/recordings



LUKE PARKER



In Luke Parker's exhibition at Blaugrau the artist traces the many trajectories leading to the finished work.  He presents a series of stitched 'text-drawings' referencing cut-and-paste techniques more common to music and film.  In fact Parker avoids the preciousness of traditional works on paper choosing instead a more wholistic interpretation of images and their origins.  In this instance at least three pieces in the exhibition are derived from the work of Felix Gonzales-Torres' series of 'paper piles'.  In these Gonzales-Torres presents stacks of identical, bland yet poetic photographic images which visitors may take away with them.  The artist has brought these together, some 'borrowed' from friends and others collected personally.  Each has been interpreted differently.  

One image in black and white of an empty stretch of ocean has been superimposed with the cover of a Joy Division album.  In this instance however the graphic is inverted and now reads as a reflection on the water's surface.  Indeed the image is a personal though equally critical reflection on certain types of images and their ability to move and affect us.  Another work originally from Gonzales-Torres is simply a silver square with a white line at one end.  Viewed in another way the silver becomes an ocean while the white line indicates a horizon.  The resolutely abstract and flat becomes representational and a means of suggesting future events.  

Overlaid in this work is a quote from a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini, 'the filmy crust of our world over the naked universe'.  The quote converts the silver square into a mirror of the filmmaker's words.  At the same time the reflectivity of Pasolini's favourite medium and of all representation is conjured.  In addition and coupled with these works at Blaugrau are a series of editions composed for compact disk. These portray the domestic terrain of the artist's living environment. Together these works subjectively unite in an entirely convincing way the aural and visual threads that weave meaning into the texture of our lives.



june 7-10 2001

**afternoon closing drinks sunday 10th 3-6pm**


BLAUGRAU
19 Meagher St Chippendale NSW 2008
hours. thursday to sunday 3-6:30pm
ph. 02 9518 4386 e. blaugrau@bangkok.com
w. http://up.to/blaugrau
directors. alex gawronski lisa kelly
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