the art life

The Heat is. . .On!

Chalkhorse Gallery 56 Cooper St Surry Hills, Sydney.
November 29th 2007 at
6pm



In The Heat is…On! Renny Kodgers will perform in a fully operational sauna installed in Chalkhorse Gallery. In this environment Renny will exchange his most intimate bodily fluids in one of the most generous artistic displays in the history of Australian performance. Each pore will be completely dilated releasing a torrent of unfettered visceral information. This is an opportunity for any person, animal or thing to engage with Renny on a visceral level previously unheard of. Bodies will be obliterated in a swell of sweat, building new relationships and creating new levels of interpersonal engagement.

Renny Kodgers is a renegade performer on the Sydney burlesque and performance art scene known for his camp send up of the country singer Kenny Rogers and his broad range of performance stunts. These have included his performative opus, “One Love” an event that turned Jensen’s Tennis Centre, Surry Hills into a celebration of artist’s egos, failed dreams and ball girls in hot pants.


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PAUL WORSTEAD

WHOOPERS

you invited to the opening of the exhibition
this Tuesday night November 13 2007 from
6 to 8pm


Insufficient superannuation syndrome.
Oil on board, 320mm x 260mm


Paul Worstead was once selected in the Archibald Prize for his self portrait as a bunny and in 2006 was a finalist in the Sulman Prize.

His posters and screen prints were recently acknowledged at a survey show in 2005 at the Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney.

After regularly exhibiting at Gleebooks, Sydney, this is the second exhibition of new work at the Damien Minton Gallery.

In 2008 the Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery will present a survey of his art practice curated by fellow artist Reg Lynch.

EXHIBITION DATES 14 NOV TO 1 DEC, 2007 SECOND GALLERY ROOM WED TO SAT 11 TO 6

DAMIEN MINTON GALLERY
61-63 GREAT BUCKINGHAM STREET REDFERN 2016
T: 02 9699 7551
E: art@damienmintongallery.com.au
www.damienmintongallery.com.au


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2. International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennale 2007
10.06.07 > 21.11.07

Pensa con i sensi—Senti con la mente. L’arte al presente/
Think with the senses—Feel with the mind. Art in the present tense
Curator – Robert Storr



Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette
Christian Capurro et al.


To complete his 2007 Venice Biennale of Art project in Think with the Senses-Feel with the mind. Art in the present tense, Christian Capurro will be staging 3 more events, complimenting the 3 that were staged in June, in the last week of the show. These events are dialogues with, or generated from, the Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette work that is currently installed in the Corderie (Arsenale) exhibition space.

There will be a concert or ‘sonorous occupancy’ in the installation space by the Treviso-based ensemble l’arsenale, plus 2 talks at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa; one by the Englishman, Dr. Roger Cook (ex-artist, -actor, - Vogue Hommes model and current Research Fellow in the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of London) and one by the Islamic scholar Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti from ‘La Sapienza’ University in Rome.

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