EXHIBITION FOOTNOTES

Action vs. Action. Gallery 4a Sydney

Jan 12th 2009
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Action vs. Action
Gallery 4a: Asia-Australia Art Centre
181-187 Hay Street Sydney
January 7- 17, 2009
Closing Party: 2 pm, Saturday January 17

Action speaks louder than words. Art in times of Global Recession.

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Photographs Courtesy of: Krzysztof Osinski

For the month of January Gallery 4a has turned its ground floor gallery into a public-private studio space and experimental laboratory. Rice paper meets spontaneous drips and improvised splatters from blood red to charcoal black – on the ground, off the wall, at street level in full view. As each work is born the world is born – leaving behind a spectrum of mark making vocabularies. Some have resulted in elegant well-turned phrases, others in the stilted grappling for form chasing elusive time.

Saturday drew a diverse group  - there was a visiting Indonesian artist currently studying at a local business college, a visiting Dutch artist who’s a full-time housepainter by trade, the local art-sibling duo  Leanne and Naomi Shedlezki from Match Box Projects and random passersby. We (that is all the participants) were given half an hour each, with painting materials supplied by the gallery for everyone to create works on the spot. Most however took longer than the allocated minutes, working and hanging out till closing time.

Upstairs suspended from the ceiling were works from the previous days - a portrait of a cowboy like figure by multimedia artist Gianni Wise, several Chinese characters burnt through with a lit incense by artist Shuxia Chen (reading “life & death” according to one of the staff). There were blots and blobs and feint lines over scrunched-up paper along with more academic traditional styles. The gallery’s director took a textual route by scrawling random words across the rice paper which funnily, for all its emotive resonances were apparently copied verbatim from received junk mail.
In these fraught times of a global economic downturn with the commercial art market taking a battering (as many other industries), some commentators have rightly or wrongly compared the boom times of the previous years with the Tulip Craze in mid-seventeenth century Holland. There is a potential sprit in these times of recession however, as the Asian-American artist/activist Paul Chan notes.

An additive community project, the opening exhibition at Gallery 4a for 2009 seems to reflect on the predicted coming difficult years by baring to all the detritus of contemporary artistic life. Building towards a collective statement saying - this is the process.

This is what we do.

Images courtesy of Krzysztof Osinski. Copyright 2009

Action vs. Action is currently ongoing. For more information on how to take part/participate please check Gallery 4a’s website.

Closing party: 2 pm Saturday 17 January 2009


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