Regarding Retro: Reanimations of the Preloved |
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18 August - 24 September 2006
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| Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
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Regarding Retro is an exhibition with a present-day social history emphasis examining a barely acknowledged second-hand economy common to Australia’s regions and marginalised suburban locales. It celebrates creative makers who transform the passé, the retro, the kitsch and the re-usable into works of art and collections of distinction.
Through a selection of NSW and Queensland artists, Regarding Retro aims to uncover the links between economic survival and artistic invention, promoting artists who reanimate the discarded. It also explores the psychology of collecting by presenting a series of photographic portraits of opportunists – Bower Birds of providence and provenance – who have amassed quirky collections outside the mainstream antique market.
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Artists:
Danny Abood, Tierry Auriac, Slim Barrie, Elaine Campaner, Clinton Cross, Elvis Di Fazio, Peter fay, Elizabeth Gower, Ed Koumans, Claudine Marzik, martin Mischkulnig, Milena Quanash, Luke Roberts, Joan Ross, Mona Ryder, Glen Skien, Trevor Spohr, Christine Turner
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