[spectre] ANDREW BEST AND ALEX GAWRONSKI

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From: "eaf at eaf.asn.au" <eaf at eaf.asn.au>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:16:58 +0930

ANDREW BEST AND  ALEX GAWRONSKI
Experimental Art Foundation
Exhibition runs to 22 November Tues-Fri 11-5 Sat 2-5
Lion Arts Centre, North Terrace at Morphett Street, Adelaide
Exhibition runs to 22 November Tues-Fri 11-5 Sat 2-5

ANDREW BEST : Paradise
Andrew Best is an Adelaide-based emerging artist, curator and writer,
and co-founder of Downtown artist run space in Hindley Street,
Adelaide. In February this year he exhibited in 'Mirage', an
exhibition of artists under thirty-five at the Perth Institute of
Contemporary Arts, and in July created a large scale version of the
Donkey Kong video game in Adelaide's Artspace. His work fuses
personal and pop-cultural references within reconstructed elements
from the contemporary urban landscape.
For this exhibition, Andrew is creating a large-scale installation
that draws from the various narratives that have been built around
the notion of 'paradise', from Light's utopian Adelaide plan, to
notions of paradise from books and film.
Andrew Best is assisted by the South Australian School of Art,
University of South Australia, where he is currently undertaking a
Masters Degree in Visual Art. In 2004 he will exhibit in Perth,
Melbourne and Darwin.

ALEX GAWRONSKI : Abstrakt Attack Kabinett
Sydney-based artist and writer, Alex Gawronski, has over the past
decade, created a substantial body of work exploring notions of
representation, social and cultural power, and mass production. This
work explores the covert relationship between art and war. Inspired
(infuriated) by recent world events, in this installation the artist
attempts to address the conundrum of representing politics in art.
"Roland Barthes claimed that to represent politics was impossible
because politics resists all mimetic copying; 'politics begins where
imitation ceases'. Yet what is curious about the way aggressive
international acts are pictured in the media, is their regular
dependence on diagrams and other assorted means of formally
distancing the event from the reality.... This installation, through
various references to formalist traditions, heightens the tensions
subliminally underlying the 'art world' as a micro-political field."
In 1999, Alex was awarded an Australia Council Studio Residency at
the British School at Rome 1999-2000, and was represented in
'Primavera' 2001 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Alex has
been involved with the artist run spaces 'First Draft', Sydney,
(Co-Director 1996-1998) and 'Blaugrau' (founding member and
Co-Director) and is a regular contributor to 'Broadsheet' and
'Eyeline' magazines amongst others, as well as the Sydney visual arts
editor of 'RealTime' magazine 1998-2002. He is currently undertaking
a PhD at Sydney College of the Arts on the contemporary relationship
between critical art and global culture.
This exhibition is assisted by the Commonwealth Government through
the Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council, its arts
funding and advisory body.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION RING JULIE LAWTON 82117505 or EMAIL
admin at eaf.asn.au

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