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mike parr prints - MCA

Volte Face
Mike Parr Prints & Pre-Prints 1970 - 2005
2 March - 21 May 2006

Mike Parr’s solo exhibition forms part of a wider season of exhibitions at the MCA exploring self-portraiture by selected Australian and international artists. This exhibition focuses on Parr’s works on paper from the 1990s to the present, as well as early contextual pieces of the 1970s. It includes a selection of key print works drawn from the artist’s studio as well as institutional and private loans, the MCA collection work Black Box of word situations, variation #3, and the artist’s Black Box of 100 Self Portrait Etchings, comprising 100 boxed portrait prints with individually hand-treated surfaces. Also featured is the artist’s performative video 100 Breaths, featuring Parr ‘inhaling’ the individual prints, one by one, to his face in the form of temporary masks.

This exhibition explores the artist’s ongoing self portrait project, sustained through the print medium for two decades, and proposes that self portraiture is an ambivalent, inherently unstable project, like identity itself. It depicts the self through distortional processes including anamorphism, mirroring and reversal, and literal physical disjuncture between body and head/mind. In these works repetition and reinvention are central, and a range of mark-making techniques are employed.

Mike Parr is well known for his work across diverse media including performance, photography, sculpture, video, drawing and printmaking. Active as an artist in Australia since the late 1960s, with an extensive exhibitions history both locally and internationally, he has examined a range of philosophical and political concerns that embrace both the self and the wider world over time.

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on drawing at cofa





'100 breaths'
I started drawing in 1981 because around that time I stopped doing the body art performances that I'd done throughout the 1970's. There was something deathly about all the photographic residues. I began by gridding up the photographs and meticulously trying to turn all the photographic tone into line. I also re-drew drawings by mathematically extending the axii of the grid so that drawings became vertically elongated or squashed. This was the beginning of the Self Portrait Project which was my way of analyzing mechanical distortion as psychological content. It was also my way of learning to draw. The presentation will include a videotape of the performance "100 Breaths" in which I hold etchings of self portraits to my face by inhaling my breath. As the performance proceeds I hyperventilate so that my portrait emerges as a strange expression between the prints. All my work seems to entail a tension between representation and physical processes close to performance art

polish prints

IconData – PolishPrints 2004
gathers here in one place hundreds of prints
presents the expanded field of graphic art:
prints, 3-D composition, multimedia, creative photography
new works are added every year

International Print Triennial Society

www.triennial.cracow

IconData – WorldPrints 2005
gathers here in one place hundreds of prints presents the expanded field of graphic art: prints, 3-D composition, multimedia, creative photography
new works are added every year

If you want to participate in this program, send us 2 images of your works to icondata@triennial.cracow.pl
and we will send you information and entry forms.

TRIENNIAL KRAKÓW 2006 PRINT COMPETITION
Send your contact information together with 2 digital images of your work with description to smtg@triennial.cracow.pl.
We will send you entry form and regulations.

tom nicholson

Tom Nicholson completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drawing at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1998 and has since presented individual exhibitions at
West Space, Melbourne 2003;
Gertrude contemporary art spaces, Melbourne 2003;
Kapelle der Versöhnung, Berlin 2002;
and West Space, Melbourne 2000.

Recent group exhibitions include ‘Feedback: Art, Social Consciousness and Resistance’, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne 2003; ‘The Office of Utopic Procedures’, West Space, Melbourne 2001; ‘Critical Response’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney 2000; ‘Action/Recollection: Here the body is’, West Space, Melbourne 2000; and ‘Drawing in the 90s’, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne 1997.

In 2000 he was the recipient of the Queens Trust for Young Australians award and an Australia Council New Work grant. In 2002 he received an Australia Council grant to live and work in Berlin, where he developed new work for exhibition in Berlin and Melbourne.

Tom is an active writer of reviews and criticism, and has been published in journals such as Art/Text, Art and Australia and Like, Art Magazine, as well as in exhibition catalogues published by the National Gallery of Victoria, Auckland Art Gallery, Wilhelm Fabry Museum (Germany), Artspace Visual Arts Centre, and West Space.

from gertrude


at the australian centre for moving image
with Raafat Ishak (2004)
at the australian centre for contemporary art (2004)
at iaska
at empyre
age review
in art/text