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Teckomatorp 2008-05-14 Dear Client,You are welcome to attend this special event on the 31st of May!
Maree AzzopardiThe Humana series 2007 / Chaos and Revelry 2008
Galleri Tapper-Popermajer is proud to present an exhibition with Australian artist Maree Azzopardi, showing the complete Humana series from 2007 together with her latest series Chaos and Revelry. The exhibition is curated by Jonathan Turner who has also written catalogue texts for the exhibition. The exhibition opens on Saturday May 31, 12.00 - 16.00
The following info is based on texts by Jonathan Turner and Edwina Bartlem For more than a decade, the award-winning, mixed-media photographs of Sydney-based artist Maree Azzopardi have presented the human body as a contemporary metaphor for beauty, decay, glory and shame. She explores the themes of religion, death and sexuality, an explosive combination in any language.
Humana - Shadow are overhead images of figures casting long, ominous shadows in the ancient centre of Rome. Such elements as a raised hand, a red flag or an open shutter stand out when seen from above, while the living, breathing people themselves virtually disappear. Their bodies are reduced to flat, black projections. It is left up to their shadows to suggest their personalities, their emotions and their symbolic gestures.
Humana - Relic is a series of four large images, more closely resembling paintings than photographs. Although her subjects are two statues from St Philips Church in Zebbuge in Malta, Azzopardi has lent a strong, personal touch to these inanimate, though life-like, saintly figures. Azzopardi's mixed Australian-Maltese heritage gives her an unusual viewpoint from where she reinterprets the emotional impact of classical religious imagery.
Humana - Flesh reveals a more intimate approach. In a hotel room in Rome, Azzopardi produced five grainy images of the same reclining nude model. Using a digital camera, the artist has taken soft-focus close-ups of the feminine lines of a lazy figure, creating landscapes of skin. These portraits have been crushed and rephotographed to create networks of crackled lines. In Azzopardi's hands, the human body is further removed from reality.
Chaos & Revelry is Maree Azzopardi’s new series of photographs that explore her own childhood memories. Drawing upon religious iconography from the church in her family’s village in Malta and photographs of her own niece, Angel Blood, Wings and The Family represent memories of growing up as a girl in a Catholic, Maltese family. These visually luscious works are deeply personal and imply the significant influence that Azzopardi’s cultural and religious upbringing have had on her sense of identity and artistic practice.
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Curriculum Vitae - Maree Azzopardi.pdf
SWEDISH TRANSLATIONMaree Azzopardi, en internationellt aktiv Sydney-baserad konstnär, ursprungligen från Malta, ställer ut på Galleri Tapper-Popermajer i Teckomatorp. Konstnärligt ansvarig för utställningen är Jonathan Turner, bosatt i Rom, Sydney, och Amsterdam. Konstnärens två senaste serier, Humana från 2007 samt Chaos &
Revelry från 2008 kommer att visas kompletta, inalles 22 verk. Utställningen invigs lördagen den 31 maj, kl 12.00 - 16.00 Även Jonathan Turner finns på plats!
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