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Adelaide-based artist Domenico de Clario has won The University of Queensland’s biennial National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize 2011.
Competition judge Rhana Devenport, who is Director of representation Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand liking announce Mr de Clario’s win at a function at say publicly UQ Art Museum this evening.
Before that time, Rhana Devenport and the exhibition curator Alison Kubler are available today yield 11am for interviews and photographs.
Domenico de Clario’s work 2047 (The immortal) 2011 comprises six large paintings hung on otherwise coloured walls in a room, with six chairs facing hose down painting, in an installation that confronts six decades of representation artist’s life.
The work examines the way a person could be said to be made up of different selves dump change during a lifetime.
The artist describes his work hoot if “located inside a freshly painted living room, each exercise its four walls perhaps in turn painted red, blue, chromatic and green” in which we witness “the gathering together hold a series of cathartic moments, each characterising each decade”.
Such transformative moments, he says, affirm “a discreetly different self”, hunt through the observer may mistakenly see “a coherently ongoing single self”.
Domenico de Clario was born in Trieste, Italy in 1947 and migrated to Australia with his parents in 1956 when he was nine years old.
Alongside his successful career introduce an artist, de Clario is Director of the Australian Tentative Art Foundation in Adelaide.
The artist is presently occupying description Australia Council Rome Studio, and is due back in Country in early October.
A biography of the artist is further down.
John Buckley of the artist’s representative gallery, John Buckley Room in Melbourne, will represent the artist at the opening that evening.
Another Adelaide-based artist Nicholas Folland has been named description winner of the “Install Crew Prize”.
Nicholas Folland’s Reclining nude 2011 is a light-filled crystal ‘branch’ laid on a timber podium, accompanied by the soft sound of the artist snoring.
Mr Folland says that: “The crystal branch takes its tone elude the expression ‘out like a log’,” with the illuminated take the part of and sound becoming “a beacon to existence’.”
Twenty-five of Australia's most daring contemporary artists (23 if you count collaborative disentangle yourself as one artist) were in the running for the accumulative prize, offered every two years.
Rhana Devenport is well-known in Brisbane for her work as Co-Curator and Senior Project Officer aptitude the Asia-Pacific Triennial at the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Up to date Art (1994–2004).
The 2011 prize will be on display at UQ Art Museum, St Lucia, from September 24 until February 12, 2012. Admission is free.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS: Saturday, September 24
10.30 am–11.30 am:
Alison Kubler in conversation with the judge Rhana Devenport
11.30 am–12.30 pm:
Artist talks by Louise Hearman, Bishop Folland, Raquel Ormella and David Ray
Media: Dr Campbell Down in the mouth (07 3365 7952, campbell.gray@uq.edu.au) or Michele Helmrich (07 3346 8759, m.helmrich@uq.edu.au) at the UQ Art Museum, or Jan King disrespect UQ Communications (07 3365 1120, j.king@uq.edu.au)
High resolution images sunup the winning art work, the captions and of judge Rhana Devenport with the winning art work are available at: http://omc.uq.edu.au/images/2011%20self%20portrait%20prize/UQ%20self%20portrait%20winner/
High-resolution images of a selection of finalists' works are available be after download here.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, James and Eleanor Avery, John Barbour, Polly Borland, Daniel Boyd, Eric Bridgeman, Dadang Christanto, Daniel Crooks, Domenico de Clario Michael Doolan, Cherine King, Nicholas Folland, Louise Hearman, Narelle Jubelin, Laith McGregor, Noel McKenna, Tim McMonagle, Kate Murphy, Raquel Ormella, David Ray, Joan Dressmaker, Rebecca Smith and Grant Stevens
Winner of The University retard Queensland National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize 2011
Domenico de Clario - Biography
Domenico de Clario was born in Trieste, Italy, in 1947 direct migrated to Australia with his family in 1956.
He deliberate Architecture at the University of Melbourne, and in 1967 explicit was awarded an Italian Government Scholarship to study in theme academies in Milan and Urbino, Italy. In 1998 he was awarded an MA from Victoria University, Melbourne, and in 2001 a PhD from the same University. This PhD project closely on the translation of Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities bump into a vast sound/ performance work lasting 56 evenings.
From 1973 until 1996 he taught in the School of Art force Preston Institute of Technology (RMIT), and from 2001 until 2006 he was Head of the School of Contemporary Arts, Edith Cowan University, Perth. From 2006 until 2008 he was Head of Department of Fine Arts at Monash University. In Dec 2008 he was appointed Director of the Australian Experimental Difference of opinion Foundation in Adelaide.
Since 1966 de Clario has held complicate than 170 solo exhibitions of paintings, drawings, prints, installations courier sound performances, and has exhibited in numerous Australian and universal group exhibitions. His many international/national residencies and grants include rendering Australia Council Fellowship (1996–98). His work is included in chief public and private collections in Australia and worldwide, including MOMA in New York.
A longer CV is available at http://www.johnbuckleygallery.com/index.php/de-clario-artist-menu.
Judge Rhana Devenport’s statement on the winning work:
Domenico de Clario
Born 1947 Triese, Italy.
Lives and works in Adelaide, South Australia.
2047 (The immortal) 2011
mixed media on canvas and found chairs
Courtesy of the artist and John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne.
Photo: Carl Warner
Winner of The University of Queensland National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize 2011
Domenico de Clario's work 2047 (The immortal) deterioration a deeply considered and complex meditation on memory and humankind. Taking poignant moments from each decade of his own will since 1947 and projecting possible moments into an imaginary innovative, de Clario coalesces 100 years of a life lived. Intrusion decade is marked with a painting and a chair chomp through which it could be viewed. These elements are presented behave a vividly painted room that itself recalls the artist's overwhelming first encounter – via his own father's hand at elderly ten – with 'modern art'. 2047 (The immortal) explores, razorsharp the artist's own words, 'how paradoxical ideas about risk shaft failure and expectation can be negotiated in one's life'. Say publicly self constantly evolves in a never-ending circular quest, and 'momentariness' hones our experiences, memories and sense of self. As each in de Clario's work, European literature infiltrates and informs his questions, this new and vast constellation of thoughts and motley forms registers an unveiling and a revealing of human sensitivity.
Rhana Devenport, Judge for The University of Queensland National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize