The exhibition program for 2008 launches in February to coincide with
the Chinese New Year, an important time for celebration and renewal.
For the Chinese New Year Aaron Seeto has curated an exhibition
featuring three Chinese-Australian artists from Sydney, Brisbane and
Launceston. Including Suzan Liu, Pamela See and Greg Leong, these
artists will be in Sydney at the beginning of February to participate
in the celebrations. The exhibition is titled Heavenly Bodies, and
explores very personal experiences of being Chinese in Australia,
concepts of good luck and ideas of desire.
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My subject happy to be "I"
-- Sydney-based Korean artist Miya Hyunmi Roh sees her artwork as a
type of diary, she becomes her work's primary subject and central
theme. Roh uses a range of
media, from video to mixed media installation. Her exhibition will
include a series of kinetic sculptures that incorporate electric fans
to which are tied small-cutout pictures of the artist. They are made to
dance and move in its breeze. The work is both joyful and poignant, as
Roh's interest in the exploration of her self is tied to her belief
that she is also responsible for her own freedom.
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Vietnamese-Australian artist My Le Thi has had a long history with Gallery 4A. Trust, Betrayal, The Light is an exhibition of new video work, which the artist describes as a new chapter. Her
two new video works in this exhibition, draw heavily on very personal
experiences of loss, survival and renewal. The artist combines
animation, and filmic narrative structures to convey memories which are fraught with trauma and pain.
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Artist
Cecelia Huynh has worked as a teacher of English as a second language.
This experience as well as her background as a first generation
Vietnamese-Australian, has made Huynh sensitive to linguistic
aberrations in syntax and other rules that are used by immigrants and
foreigners. In Moving Fictions,
the artist has created an installation with text and photography
displayed in light boxes and cardboard boxes which captures the
struggle to articulate and express through language.
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Selling Out, by Sydney-based Taiwan-born artist Meng-shu You,
critically examines today's culture of mass consumption. The ground
floor gallery is transformed to look like a commercial shop. Shelves are
filled with hundreds of blue and white patterned china pieces and
candles shaped like characters from popular culture. You has lived in
Taiwan, America and Australia and her experiences of these cultures are
explored in her ceramic and mixed media pieces. Selling Out not only
comments on the impact of America on Taiwanese culture but also the
cultural challenges arising from living in an age of globalisation.
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Roy Ananda's work Permission Slip
is the most recent in a six-year-long series of sculptural
constructions. Each work in the project uses the same materials,
reinvented in response to the previous work and adapted to fit their
environment. The works combine formal elements of high art with a
humorous side of popular culture. Ananda's larger-than-life sculptures
are influenced by the exaggerated physicality of popular cartoons and
movie personalities. The artist lives and works in Adelaide but will be
in Sydney prior to the exhibition.
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Sydney-based artist Clara Chow's exhibition Silverhand includes two video works, Angelica and Deconstructive Princess. Silverhand
takes its name from a Cantonese phrase, which roughly translates to
"having an itching arse". This crude phrase is used to refer to someone
who meddles in other people's business. This pun sets the tone for the
exhibition. Angelica, Chow's newest work, depicts an interview with the
artist's sister and mother about finding a pornographic video on her
brother's mp3 player. Deconstructive Princess
is a seven-channel video of deconstructed scenes from a Peking Opera.
The artist uses popular culture images to explore translation problems
and language barriers. Subtitles act as a unifying visual theme in both
videos-critical in one and frustratingly useless in another.
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Gallery 4A, the Asia-Australia Arts Centre presents an exhibition of
work by Vienna Parreño, a young Filipina artist based in Sydney.
Parreño works in a variety of media, including performance,
installations and digital video. Her most recent project, Fears of a Jaded Descent, exhibition at Gallery 4A will be the first time this work will be presented to the public.
Fears of a Jaded Descent is a
floor-to-ceiling installation which will dramatically transform the
ground fl oor space of Gallery 4A. Parreño's installation will be
visible from the front window of the gallery to the multitudes of
passerbys enroute in Chinatown's Hay Street, where Gallery 4A is
located.
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On
the first day of 2007, a mysterious agent arrives in Hong Kong on an
unspecified mission. Without a map and relying solely on his intuition,
The Agent drifts...
Gallery 4A's ongoing Nightvision series continues with an interactive
video work by artist ROBERT IOLINI. This work, presented in partnership
with d/Lux/MediaArts, will use mobile technology to engage a large
range of audiences.
THE HONG KONG AGENT is an
intimate and poetic exploration of contemporary Hong Kong culture. It
is an edgy work which replicates the vitality and innovation of an
ultra future/retro megapolis.
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Michael Shaowanasai will be
curating an exhibition of 16 multimedia works which comment on the arts
scene in Thailand at present. The project, entitled LIFEBOAT #2551,
will feature the works of emerging and mid-career media artists who are
central and key names within the Thai contemporary arts scene. This
list includes ARAYA RADSJARMREARNSOOK (exhibitor at Venice Biennale
2005), PHUTTIPHONG AROONPHENG, and TIN TIN COOPER.
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Melbourne-based artist VIPOO SRIVILASA works mostly in ceramics,
exploring similarities between the cultures of his native Thailand and
Australia, his adoptive home. Using blue and white glazes, he creates
complex narratives through highly decorated images applied to the
surfaces of ceramic forms. His work requires an intimacy in which the
key elements of the drama are often found in unusual places within the
forms themselves.
Vipoo Srivilasa's upcoming project Roop - Rote - Ruang (Taste - Touch - Tell) will
take the form of both an exhibition at Gallery 4A and a series of
dinner parties, hosted by the artist, at various private residences in
Sydney.
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JUMAADI's work retells stories based on personal memory and the
folkloric tradition in the form of drawings, paintings, performance,
weaving and installation. His exhibition, Home Sweet Home, Home is not Sweet Home, is based on the human-induced mud-flow disaster in the Sidoarjo region of the artist's native East Java.
In Home Sweet Home, Home is not Sweet Home,
the artist uses a mix of sculpture, photographs as well as multi-panel
drawings and paintings to present a poetic encounter with the
individual tragedies resulting from the mudflow disaster. The artist is
known for his multi-panel work, which bring together micro-stories and
events to form a larger narrative.
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SOO-JOO YOO's work negotiates tension and chaos through the use of tangible lines and colour, space and lighting. Born in Korea, YOO currently works and resides in Sydney. The artist
works mainly with installation, using everyday materials which attract
her emotionally.
So this is fxxking, beautiful our future..? will
consist of an installation located on the Ground Floor of Gallery 4A.
Visible 24-hours a day to Gallery 4A passerbys, the installation will
fill the gallery with the reflective light and colours which bounce off
industrial materials such as vinyl, foil, plastic tubes, wire, alumium
pipes and rubber mats. The work exploits sensations of rapid movement
and spatial confusion to present an optical dance of chaotic nature in
contemporary life.
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Paperbark Leaflets at
Gallery
4A is Jason Wing's first solo exhibition. The artist will be employing a
paper-cutting technique on old advertising posters gleaned from
telegraph poles to create a three-dimen-sional installation -
transforming the Ground Floor of Gallery 4A into a forest of falling
leaves and dancing cherubs.
The image of the cherub is based on a photograph of the artist as a boy
and represents a child's perspective on life before adulthood.
Previously appearing in Wing's other works such as A.B.C Aboriginal
Born Chinese (2007), G.M.O Genetically Modified Organism (2007) and Year
of the Snake (2006) , in Paperbark Leaflets, it will adopt a half-animal form with long and elaborate tails.
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JAMIL YAMANI is at the forefront of Australian artists dealing with
themes relevant to migration, postcolonialism and political identity.
YAMANI's solo exhibition at Gallery 4A, Family/Familiar
will contrast Muslim representation in media by presenting a familiar
and firsthand encounter of the lives of his family members at home. As
an Australian born in England to East African migrants, the artist and
his family are well-acquainted with experiences of resettlement.
Family/Familiar involves videos and photographs centering around a
large industrial sculpture in which a video projector is embedded.
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Gallery 4A is pleased to present Same, Same, the first solo exhibition by emerging artist Garry Trinh. Trinh highlights life's peculiarities through his photography. Same, Same
is an installation derived from a project which Trinh recently
undertook - dressed in a black polyester sweater, Trinh went around
Sydney with his camera and photo-graphed himself with strangers who
happened to be wearing the same outfit as him.
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Gallery 4A is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Thai-Australian
artist Viruch Pikhuntod. Born in North-Eastern rural Thailand,
Pikhuntod's exhibition Prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet,
takes its title from a line in a TS Eliot poem, The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock.
Prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet brings together two
related streams of Pikhuntod's practice - painting and papier-mâché
sculpture. In this exhibition of new work, Pikhuntod works with the
concept of "masking", based on his observations of people's behaviour
in contemporary society, who increasingly wear masks to play out their
various roles. Pikhuntod's papier-mâché masks are modelled after
animals. These animal-like roles which we "wear" result in the "law of
the jungle" - where the powerful can often be found bullying the weak.
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Once again Gallery 4A holds its annual members exhibition - come and support other members and artists.
Participating
artists include Annette Wiguna, Aaron Seeto, Biron Valier, Bonita Ely,
Carolyn Whan, Catherine Cloran, Craig John Loxley, Dominic Golding,
FOTOMODA, Garry Trinh, Gary Smith, Gemma Cuneo, Genevieve McCrea,
Graeme David Endean, Heesco, Helen Mak, Helen Yip, Hogi Tsai, Hong
Tong, Ioana Anagnos, Iris Siyi Shen, Jason Wing, Jayanto Damanik, John
Lee, Juliana O'Dean, Julie Petersen, Jumaadi, Karl Logge & Tessa
Rapaport, Kasane Low, Kevin Hegarty, Koji Ryui, Kristine McCarrolll,
Lainie Cann, Liping Chiang, Louise Cox, Manfred Lai, Megan Won,
Michelle Cox, Mini Graff, Monica Epstein, Muzi Li, Natasha Allen, Ngoc
Nguyen, Nidan Cao, Pamela See, Pauline Plumb, Phaptawan Smwannakudt,
Sally Shuk Mann Poon, Sarah Mufford, Shen Wednesday, Shuxia Chen, Sue
Pedley, Tianli Zu, Tuyet Huynh, Vienna Parreno, Vladmir Ivanov, Yee
Hwan Yeoh, Yiwon Park and others...
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