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Posted by: The Blackmail
This weeks Cheeky Freak Of The Week is the Brisbane launch of Le Cercle this weekend at Le Cercle at The Outpost. While you’re at it, check out our interview between Joe Allen and Benjamin Deberdt here…
Text: Tristan Ceddia Images: © Warwick Baker
I decided I wanted to interview Warwick Baker after seeing his self portrait, ‘Mongolo River,’ in the 2009 National Youth Self Portrait Prize. I don’t know exactly what it was about this image, but I felt compelled to understand more about this character. I caught Warwick, quite a discerning individual, for a brief chat about his obsession with Belanglo State Forrest. Continue reading…
Text: Tristan Ceddia Images: Benjamin Lichtenstein
Benjamin has been-jammin’ out in Berlin for months now. These images, the first to surface of their kind, tell tales of his daily intake, moving in and out of time and snow. Continue reading…
Text: Joseph Allen Shea Images: Benjamin Deberdt & Mark Gonzales
Le Cercle is the book I have always wanted to make but never knew it. It is the perfect conjoining of ideas and artistic practice, the works bridging time and space (the boards made in California, photographs taken in Paris and printed in Sydney then shipped to and from New York City for Mark to add his drawings. Finally the book was designed and printed in Sydney), marrying relationships young and old as well ideas that would not been conceived by one individual. It is the spin of a successful collaboration across several mediums. The unbroken ring that unites several ideas but only one conclusion.
I have been working with Mark Gonzales for four years but only last week shared coffee for the very first time. I met Benjamin Deberdt seven years ago and we became great friends but only last week realised our first art project together. After my return from Paris for the European launch of Le Cercle and the artworks inclusion in new Paris museum La Gaîté Lyrique, Benjamin and I spent some time over email trying to sum up what had happened. Continue reading…
Posted by: Millie Stein
My aunt is having a solo show opening this Wednesday at Gallery 9. Jane Campion says: “Sally (Bongers) is a marvel. Her photographs are raw, tender and brutally original. Sally is an artist who has a pure vision.” She was also the first woman to shoot a 35mm feature film in Australia (Sweetie, 1988) and has seen and done a lot. Just sayin’.
Bongers
Opening Wed 13 July, 6-8pm
Until 6 August
Gallery 9
9 Darley St, Darlinghurst
Posted by: The Blackmail
P.A.M. STORE, IZROCK PRESSINGS & THE BLACKMAIL INVITE YOU TO THE SYDNEY LAUNCH OF
LE CERCLE
BENJAMIN DEBERDT / MARK GONZALES
With a display of prints and projected works from the book.
Thursday, 14th July 2011
6pm – 8pm
P.A.M. Store
20 Burton Street
Darlinghurst, Sydney
Supported by Grolsch
Read an interview between Joseph Allen Shea and Benjamin Deberdt here.
Text: Amelia Stein Images: James Nelson
There is a pattern to life and a pattern to nature, but it takes a solid sense of humour to see the pattern in inanimate objects and frame it amongst these more robust concerns.
Looking at James Nelson’s work, it seems to me that repetitions and disruptions, the banal and the sublime, are of equal importance. Quite unimportant, or at least unspecified, are place and time. These are reduced to the supporting conditions that may have allowed stacks of tires to lean symmetrically against each other in the heat, or bras and knickers to be hung at complimentary angles, or flowers in a planter to cast a certain shadow.
These photographs speak of the way things are insistently never-quite-symmetrical and the happenstance beauty this can create. And if that’s not a profound observation, I don’t know what is. Continue reading…
Posted by: Tristan Ceddia
Corey White AKA Mr. Blanc shoots and interviews Mr. Ray Pedersen here.
Text & Images: Yimmy Yayo
Two months ago I, along with three young ladies, set out across the western states of the United States. Adventure, enjoyment and SXSW our goals, respectively. I’d always wanted to drive across America. From the earliest I can remember, Route 66 was the one. The glorified path for any traveler wishing to see the ‘real’ United States of America. What I wasn’t prepared for was the ‘real’ USA. Continue reading…
