PRESENTING NEW WORK BY:
Brent Harris, Brendan Huntley, Anastasia Klose, Patricia Piccinini, Ben Quilty and Caroline Rothwell
ANASTASIA KLOSE
One Stop Knock-Off Shop
ANASTASIA KLOSE’S Knock-Off Shop is the place to buy art inspired T-shirts.
For Art Basel Hong Kong, Anastasia Klose has designed a special limited editon Luxe range of T-shirts emblazoned with art world mega brands like Monet, Damien and Pearl Lam (PEARL GLAM).
She will sell these T-shirts from her shop within the Tolarno Galleries’ booth. This special project sees all the ethical, economic and artistic concerns raised by the knock-off, the copy and the rip-off up for discussion.
Anastasia Klose will be there, all day, every day, for the duration of the fair, running her shop and ready to talk about her work. ‘High art,’ she says, ‘meets low culture at the Knock-off Shop, where mega-artists, power-curators and super-galleries are sampled and detourned on a T-shirt’.
Klose has an interest in street fashion and has always paid attention to the trend of putting brand-names on T-shirts to give them status. "It was this really intelligent way of giving everyone the chance of living the dream of the brand," Klose says. At the same time, she says, this brand-fetish fills "the endless desire to consume, which seems to be increasing in terms of luxury brands". –Andrew Stephens, The Age, 2013
The Knock-Off Shop was a hit in the Melbourne Now exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria last year. Anastasia Klose is a fearless performer, known for drawing on her own ‘pathetic’ life to make work that is often embarrassing but at the same time humorous and full of emotion.
BRENDAN HUNTLEY
Tolarno Galleries will present an installation of new work by Brendan Huntley for the third consecutive year in Hong Kong.
“…one of the most singular artists to have emerged in Melbourne in recent years, Brendan Huntley's vessels rendered with human-like traits in enamel, oil stick, pastel on paper and ceramic sculpture have enormous character and individuality. He replicates familiar domestic forms in clay before inverting, joining and piercing them through with eyes and mouths. It is the faces in his pieces that make them so engaging, appealing to the human ability to see faces in almost anything. These expressive apertures capture Huntley’s own moods and emotions as he works – as well as the imaginations and hearts of those who view the finished works.
Working across painting and sculpture, Huntley will often make a ‘twin’ for each work in the other medium, but he does not always work in two dimensions before three as if using the former as a working drawing. The media are equal in his mind and bring different advantages to his work but it is also possible to see how he handles them similarly too, incising into the layers of oil stick as he does with the clay, for example, or applying slips and glazes in the same way that he has painted with enamel.
Huntley works in an intuitive and improvisational way, almost automatically, allowing the character of each piece to emerge as if by its own agency. Some are very strong characters and while he says that he likes them all, there are some that challenge him with their presence.” –Francis E. Parker, Artist Profile Magazine