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Brad Haylock 2011 Australia
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Brad Haylock - Without Time
Anna Pappas Gallery
Thursday 13 October 2011 to Sunday 13 November 2011
Opening Wednesday 12 October 2011 6pm
Without Time continues Brad Haylock's ongoing questioning of the commodification of critical practices, in particular the intersection of artistic avant-gardes and luxury capitalism. The exhibition's title is derived with irony from a literal mistranslation of the Italian phrase 'senza tempo', accurately translated as 'timeless', the name of the 2010 collection by Italian furniture maker Minotti.
Certain works in the exhibition evoke suprematist inquiries into an essentialism of form, but take as their content the graphic tropes of fashion magazines and perfume packaging. In contrast, other works evoke the symbolism of oppositional subcultures or the historic political left. In this exhibition, just as in today’s designer home, divergent motifs and materials come together in pursuit of a seamless whole.
About Brad Haylock
Brad Haylock is a Melbourne based artist whose practice also spans writing, curating and publishing. He holds a PhD from RMIT University and an honours degree in Visual Communication from Monash University where he is currently a lecturer. Haylock’s recent solo exhibitions include Dead Nature (a monument to exactitude) at mzin in Germany in 2011, Inquiry after Jeopardy (with Kieran Stewart) at Rear View and Everyone is Equal (but some are more equal than others) at Kings ARI in 2010. He has participated in a number of group exhibitions in Melbourne including project11: paradise… a hell of a place at Anna Pappas Gallery and Things I wish I’d known at West Space in 2011, Endgame: Late-capitalist Realism at VCA Gallery in 2006, ArtArt at MUMA (Monash Univerity Museum of Art) and Insert Image Here at CCP (Centre for Contemporary Photography) as part of the Next Wave Festival in 2002.
