ELEVEN + 1 FACES OF FRIDA KAHLO Group Art Exhibition
OPENING
22 July
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Metcalfe Gallery
Brisbane Institute of Art
41 Grafton St
Windsor QLD
Art Exhibition dates:
from July 22nd - August 3rd, 2016
OPENING NIGHT - Special PERFORMANCES .... LIVE ART PERFORMANCE & INSTALLATION
by Sharmila Nezovic & Gemma Garcia
(7:00 pm to 7:15 pm)
AND, MEXICAN SINGER - Sandra Primo (7:15 pm to 7.30 pm)
Bar (gold coin) & nibbles ALL WELCOME!
LIVE ART PERFORMANCE & INSTALLATION
Sharmila
Nezovic and Gemma Garcia
22 July
7:00 pm to 7:15 pm
22 July
7:00 pm to 7:15 pm
Frida
Kahlo stands for many things – a sensual artist, from a deeply religious
society, a person with great passion herself who managed to evoke poetic
expression through paint, and one who especially lived and worked in the world
of polarities. She was a Mexican artist known for her unflinching self-portraits.
In
this Performance Art event, two contemporary
female artists explore some of these as externalised imaginings – such as, the
expressive urge, the perfume of life (‘sweetness & stench’), the coloured
‘ground’ versus the blank canvas - encompassing the undercurrents that made up Frida’s life….
Here
then, the gallery is overrun by an endless red ribbon walk, temporarily
scattered with small paint pots. On Opening night, Gallery goers, are interrupted
in their mingling & viewing, and invited to freeze where they are, no
matter which side of the central wall they remain…
A
brief performance (approx. 10 mins long) manifests quickly, along the red
ribbon ‘catwalk’ journey, & where
the audience’s experience will need to flip alternately between seeing and
hearing, between noticing & feeling.
Sharmila
& Gemma’s premise will explore layers of meaning around ‘the artist as
transformer, as well as provocateur’.
This
post-performance Installation
invites contemplation of the concept of presence – yours the viewer’s
attendance and attention, as well as that of the artist-producers.
It
may bring up questions such as, what actions must the artists have undergone to
produce this installation? What might be the layers of meaning that relate to
Frida/ to all the artists in this exhibition/ to myself as visitor? Might this
detritus from the performance evoke not only Frida the artist –but a suggestive
vacancy as well? What aspects of Fida’s story
moves us personally - yet do we not also possibly bring our own experiences and
meanings into the mix from our own lives, as well?
Brisbane, July 2016
MEXICAN SINGER
Sandra Primo - Colbourne
22 July
7:15 pm to 7:30 pm
Sandra Primo, the wonderful Mexican chanteuse of the group – will entertain us with several songs, in Spanish, from the evocative sound track of the biographical movie, Frida (starring Salma Hayek)
All the pictures have copyright
