Victory Over The Sun – Utopian Slumps Friday

Posted by Melissa Loughnan

Image: Diena Georgetti, ‘If I let you interior, I’d have to make other things to hide’ (detail) 2007, acrylic on board, 62.5 x 57 cm, Courtesy of Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney

Victory Over the Sun reflects the limitations of language as it is reduced by tradition and singular definition, and considers its futuristic possibilities across pictorial and linguistic fields. The exhibition brings together a diverse range of artists working across a number of different mediums, considering the way in which the construction of language relates to ideas of progression, evolution, revolution and visions of the future.

Curated by Melissa Loughnan & Helen Hughes

Starlie Geikie, Diena Georgetti, Richard Giblett, Richard Grigg, Michelle Hanlin, Newell Harry, Christopher L.G. Hill, Ben Quilty, Nick Selenitsch, Kate Smith and Alex Vivian

Exhibition opens Friday 10 July, 6-9pm
25 Easey St Collingwood, Victoria
Show runs from Saturday July 11 until Sat July 25

We see the liberation of language and the celebration of the ‘Self-sufficient Word’ as a passage for aesthetic progression: one that reverberates throughout modern manifestoes, postmodern fiction and contemporary art, and one that is entwined with the future. So, in reference to the Futurist manifestoes, To the readers of our New Second Unexpected:

Leave reason to rust – let reason rust!
red (reds, rrrrreds, the rrrrrreddest rrrrrrreds that shouuuuuuut) brown, orange, magenta, crimson, vermilion, RUST!

Let orthography be ruled by shouts yells screams cries shrieks. Gestures: wave punch kick karate chops and skipping, smiles shudders shimmies. Let letters leave. Let this new alphabet, new system of primal symbols, guide a new aesthetic direction: the work as such.

See diacritical marks for what they really are. Voids! Bullet hole umlauts and Oedipal smiley faces.

We alone are the face of our Time.

The work of art and the art of the future is the art of the (free) word.