Past
SEVEN TRUMPETS
Curated by David-Ashley Kerr
Peter Booth
Dominic Kavanagh
David Mutch
Izabela Pluta
Michael Schlitz
Sam Shmith
Anne Scott Wilson
October 10th, 2014 – November 1st, 2014
Curated by David-Ashley Kerr
Seven Trumpets brings together seven artists whose work circles around ideas of finitude, death and propositions for the end of the world.
The artworks in this exhibition depict images of dystopian futures, present catastrophes, while others hint at some failed utopian past. Exploring landscapes in ruin, prophesised retribution and a reduction of the world into visceral signs of civilisation in decline, there remains a sense of the rise of the natural, but ultimately, failure of humanity.
Amidst chaos, fear and beautiful apocalypse, a sublime silence pervades over everything.
Peter Booth, 'Vivesected Man' 1995, compressed charcoal and casein on paper, 13.8 x 7.0 cm © Peter Booth/Licensed by Viscopy, 2014
Izabela Pluta, 'Lifted bitumen' 2011, C-type print, 100 x 123cm. Courtesy the artist and This Is No Fantasy, Melbourne
Michael Schlitz, 'Saints of the apocalypse' 2012, mixed media, twigs, three ply wood, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Bett Gallery, Hobart
Sam Shmith, 'Untitled (In Spates 1)' (From In Spates series), 2011, pigment print on archival rag, 89 x 138 cm. Courtesy the artist and ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
Anne Scott Wilson, 'There will be no more night' 2014, single channel HD video, 12m 50sec looped. Courtesy the artist and ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
Dominic Kavanagh, 'Monument to the last drop' 2014, mixed media, dimensions variable
David Mutch, 'Shelter 2' 2014, concrete, industrial shelving, dimensions variable
'Seven Trumpets' Installation view, 2014
'Seven Trumpets' Installation view, 2014
'Seven Trumpets' Installation view, 2014
'Seven Trumpets' Installation view, 2014
'Seven Trumpets' Installation view, 2014
'Seven Trumpets' Installation view, 2014