SHAUN GLADWELL - University of Queensland Art Museum
24 May 2008
The exhibition Shaun Gladwell opens at The University of Queensland (UQ) Art Museum on Saturday 24 May at 4.00 pm, with the artist presenting a free Artist Talk at 3.00 pm.
www.artmuseum.uq.edu
‘Shaun Gladwell is one of the most exciting young artists working in Australia today and we are thrilled to be showing his work at this time,’ said the Director of the UQ Art Museum Mr Nick Mitzevich.
‘We invite people to take this opportunity to hear Shaun Gladwell talk about his work,’ he said.
The UQ Art Museum exhibition includes one of the MADDESTMAXIMVS videos, Maximus as Narcissus: Broken Field of Reflection (2007), and works from his photographic series of 2007, Apology to Roadkill , in which a bike rider in full leather cradles a dead kangaroo on a lonely outback highway.
‘Shaun Gladwell takes the world we are familiar with – the street culture of BMX riders, skateboarders and breakdancers and familiar places such as a petrol station, train or fast food outlet – and punctuates it, slows it down, and gives us time to think about it in a new way,’ Mr Mitzevich said.
‘Shaun Gladwell trained as a painter, and you can see this in the way he executes his work, not only in terms of its seductive power, but also in the way it engages with the history of art and cinema, be it German Romanticism or the Mad Max films.’
‘Add to that such unexpected – even surreal – scenarios as a capoeirista performing manoeuvres between petrol bowsers, and you have an artist with the capacity to engage and intrigue the viewer,’ he said.
Other video works included in the UQ Art Museum exhibition are Busan Triptych (2006); Pataphysical Man (2005); and Woolloomooloo Night (2004).
Gladwell’s work is much sought after: his work was selected by Venice Biennale artistic director Robert Storr for his curated section in the 2007 Venice Biennale, and he is included in the forthcoming Biennale of Sydney, which opens in June 2008.
Shaun Gladwell’s Artist Talk and Exhibition Opening are featured Museums Alight! events.
The Shaun Gladwell exhibition will continue at The UQ Art Museum until 13 July.
www.artmuseum.uq.edu
‘Shaun Gladwell is one of the most exciting young artists working in Australia today and we are thrilled to be showing his work at this time,’ said the Director of the UQ Art Museum Mr Nick Mitzevich.
‘We invite people to take this opportunity to hear Shaun Gladwell talk about his work,’ he said.
The UQ Art Museum exhibition includes one of the MADDESTMAXIMVS videos, Maximus as Narcissus: Broken Field of Reflection (2007), and works from his photographic series of 2007, Apology to Roadkill , in which a bike rider in full leather cradles a dead kangaroo on a lonely outback highway.
‘Shaun Gladwell takes the world we are familiar with – the street culture of BMX riders, skateboarders and breakdancers and familiar places such as a petrol station, train or fast food outlet – and punctuates it, slows it down, and gives us time to think about it in a new way,’ Mr Mitzevich said.
‘Shaun Gladwell trained as a painter, and you can see this in the way he executes his work, not only in terms of its seductive power, but also in the way it engages with the history of art and cinema, be it German Romanticism or the Mad Max films.’
‘Add to that such unexpected – even surreal – scenarios as a capoeirista performing manoeuvres between petrol bowsers, and you have an artist with the capacity to engage and intrigue the viewer,’ he said.
Other video works included in the UQ Art Museum exhibition are Busan Triptych (2006); Pataphysical Man (2005); and Woolloomooloo Night (2004).
Gladwell’s work is much sought after: his work was selected by Venice Biennale artistic director Robert Storr for his curated section in the 2007 Venice Biennale, and he is included in the forthcoming Biennale of Sydney, which opens in June 2008.
Shaun Gladwell’s Artist Talk and Exhibition Opening are featured Museums Alight! events.
The Shaun Gladwell exhibition will continue at The UQ Art Museum until 13 July.
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