CORNUCOPIA - Melbourne
August 26th, 2008 by admin
CORNUCOPIA An Installation and New Works by Trent Whitehead
Melbourne
OPENING NIGHT THURSDAY 28th AUGUST 6.00 till 9.00PM
Show continues 29th August 25th September 2008
‘Cornucopia’, a solo art show by Sydney artist Trent Whitehead features a highly entertaining “broke down vaudeville” installation. The show title refers to the ever-giving ‘horn of plenty’. Based around the symbolic imagery of ‘magical horns’, the exhibition is undeniably generous in humor and beauty. Highly detailed handcrafted painted masks and wood panel paintings depicting horned-beasts locked in human-like battles balance an enviably dynamic body of work. The intensity of the masks and otherworldly characters capture the effervescence of the artist himself by pooling the experiences of his existence to breathe life into inanimate wood. “like a vagabond Giuseppi to a bad-ass Pinocchio”.
As narratively intense as they are beautiful, Trent’s exquisitely patterned works explore the effects of extinction in a fantastical world of horned creatures and bearded villains. Trent’s characters seem about to burst with some intense expression of anger, frustration or joie de vivre. The unique symbolism paintings portray scenes of hope, desperation and loss in a deceptively light-hearted way. The overall impression is of a do-or-die mystical journey conveyed through a very human emotional landscape.
OPENING NIGHT THURSDAY 28th AUGUST 6.00 till 9.00PM
Show continues 29th August 25th September 2008
‘Cornucopia’, a solo art show by Sydney artist Trent Whitehead features a highly entertaining “broke down vaudeville” installation. The show title refers to the ever-giving ‘horn of plenty’. Based around the symbolic imagery of ‘magical horns’, the exhibition is undeniably generous in humor and beauty. Highly detailed handcrafted painted masks and wood panel paintings depicting horned-beasts locked in human-like battles balance an enviably dynamic body of work. The intensity of the masks and otherworldly characters capture the effervescence of the artist himself by pooling the experiences of his existence to breathe life into inanimate wood. “like a vagabond Giuseppi to a bad-ass Pinocchio”.
As narratively intense as they are beautiful, Trent’s exquisitely patterned works explore the effects of extinction in a fantastical world of horned creatures and bearded villains. Trent’s characters seem about to burst with some intense expression of anger, frustration or joie de vivre. The unique symbolism paintings portray scenes of hope, desperation and loss in a deceptively light-hearted way. The overall impression is of a do-or-die mystical journey conveyed through a very human emotional landscape.
Posted in Exhibitions, Exhibitions Melbourne
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