Sarah Keighery and Billy Gruner
What is Post-Formalism?
August – September 2011
Articulate project space, Sydney
Opening 6-8pm Friday 26 August till Sunday 4 September
497 Parramatta Rd Leichhardt NSW 2040.
Articulate project space is proud to be hosting the Sydney presentation of What is Post-Formalism? a collaborative social project that Sydney-based artists Sarah Keighery and Billy Gruner began in Paris in 2008.
What is Post-Formalism? is an ongoing project of painting performance in which audiences are invited to participate in the construction of paintings in the project spaces around the world in which the paintings are made.
Recent works in this project are Billy Gruner’s Collective Monochrome No.24 and Sarah Keighery’s Line Drawing project 2011, images of which are shown below. These works investigate alternative vernaculars for contemporary painting practice. Collective Monochrome No.24 (including a side event called The Punk Painting sound installation) explores sociallyoriented contemporary painting practice by inviting audience participation in the gradual collective construction of the work, and by enabling them to experience the work as both participant and audience.
Gruner and Keighery’s ‘projectwork’ has long mapped out a conversation which extends beyond a purely art historical conversation of reductive art practices and regional non-objective concerns. This work does this by developing new methodologies that rethink these practices at a specific local and related international level of discourse that has made them well known abroad. For example, similar projects have been conducted in 24 different cities around the world since 2004 with the newer freeform and radical ‘red series’ beginning in a museum project in Northern France earlier in 2011, later in an architect’s firm in Nashville Tennessee, and as shown more recently at Enjoy Projects Wellington NZ.
Articulate project space is looking forward to hosting the local presentation of this ongoing, international project. Contact: 0431434904; http://articulate497.blogspot.com
