SHADOWED marks Ben Quilty's eighth solo show with Tolarno Galleries.
Inspired by the traditions of silhouette portraiture, which became popular in 18th-century Europe, Quilty has created a rogue's gallery of psycho-surreal and post-cubist heads that are by turns monstrous, mesmerising and magnificent.
A portraits show like no other, Shadowed includes likenesses of Rodin and a Taliban fighter (Quilty spent time in Afghanistan in 2011) as well as portraits of himself and his daughter.
These are interspersed with grotesque composites birthed in the artist's shapeshifting imagination that present as tragicomic embodiments of the conflicts and paradoxes plaguing the present moment.
Press release courtesy Tolarno Galleries.
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