NYAB Event - Peter Daverington “Lacuna”

Peter Daverington “Lacuna”

CHASM Gallery

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By extending his gaze across time from Hellenistic art to Modernism, Peter Daverington presents us with a collection of works that recall the ruins of a ubiquitously imaginary dynasty, in the realm of a museum display devoted to ancient art. In these works the artist removes fragments, lacuna, missing pieces that intuit a sense of loss, of incompletion, of the already happened. Both the sculptures and the paintings depict figures in three dimensional pictorial space and adhere to compositional formalism, yet each are in various states of decay, revealing the processes of their making and the materials from which they are forged, such as exposing raw canvas in the painting and the foam substrate under the plaster in the sculptures. Together these imaginings come to assemble an aesthetic aligned with Greek antiquity rooms, oscillating between artifact and artifice. Daverington here establishes himself as an artist who can seamlessly integrate various historic periods of art into illusions that are a byproduct of our eclectic epoch.

Art Critic Dan Rule recently described Daverington’s oeuvre as: ‘A cacophony of intermeshed ideas, genres, symbology, styles and techniques. An orgy of classical figuration, religious motifs and creation myths interlock amid wild futurist fantasies and surrealist conjurings…The spectacle of these works is one of both the hand and the happily crazed mind that controls it.’

Daverington was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1974 and completed an MFA at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne in 2006. His personal iconography expressed in painting, moving image, sound and sculpture is deeply informed by art history and twelve years of continuous travel throughout the Middle East, Turkey, India, Central America and Africa.Since 2004, Daverington has held 14 solo exhibitions and has been included in group exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Bendigo Art Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery, Geelong Art Gallery and Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts. He has been commissioned to paint public murals in Ahrweiler, Germany (1996 and 2010); Buenos Aires (2006); Istanbul (1997); Melbourne (1991- 2004); New York (2013); San Pedro, Guatemala (1994); Shanghai (2013); Sinai Peninsula, Egypt (1997) and Sydney (1991 and 2011).Daverington has been the winner of a John Coburn Emerging Artist Award (2008), Rupert Bunny Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship (2011), Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grants (2005 and 2010) and has been a finalist in the Archibald, Sulman and Fleurieu Prizes (2013). His work is held in numerous public collections including Artbank Australia, the KPMG Art Collection, the Macquarie Bank Collection, Gippsland Gallery and the Geelong Art Gallery. The artist lives and works in Beacon, New York.

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