David Eastwood: The Posthumous Studio
- When 29 Sep - 3 Nov 2018
- Where
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Address
CNR OXFORD ST & GREENS RD PADDINGTON NSW 2021
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Hours
TUES TO SAT, 10AM–5PM
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Phone
+61 2 8936 0888
David Eastwood creatively re-imagines the London-based studio of late painter Francis Bacon, now on permanent display in Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane.
Through firsthand analysis and the reconstruction of selected elements from the site, Eastwood interprets the posthumous studio as an open source for contemporary art practice. The exhibition features a video installation constructed at 1:1 scale to match Bacon’s workspace, accompanied by a series of paintings.
The modernist studio — typically mythologised as the private domain of a solitary genius — is re-examined, opening the site to alternative views and prioritising the agency of the studio’s abundant materiality.
David Eastwood Studio 2016, Exit 2016 and Imposture 2017. Installation veiw, 'The Posthumous Studio', UNSW Galleries, 2018. Photograph: Silversalt Photography
Public Program
Closing Weekend Artist Talks & Performance
11am Saturday 3 November, UNSW Galleries
Exhibiting artists David Eastwood, James Nguyen, Georgia Saxelby, and Rochelle Haley engage in a series of artist talks, and a performance by Angela Goh activates the work of Rochelle Haley.