![]() He is represented by STATION gallery, Sydney/Melbourne.Ī commitment to personal heritage and community also informs the work of Alvaro Barrington, who was born in Venezuela to Grenadian and Haitian parents and raised between the Caribbean and Brooklyn, New York, by a network of relatives. Most recently his work has been presented at Primavera, MCA, Sydney (2021), the 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, and in solo exhibitions at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery (2021) and Carriageworks (2021–2022). He describes himself as a paratactical artist and enacts First Nations sovereignty through expanded contemporary art methodologies. Ocula Feature Adelaide Biennial Challenges the Myth of the Free State Read Moreĭean Cross is a Worimi man, born and raised on Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country in the Canberra region of the Australian Capital Territory. Skinner notes that the artists use non-traditional materials such as weed matting and the ubiquitous plastic checked shopping bag, alongside motifs, ideas, cultural references, and personal, social, and art histories to layer meaning and to question ideas of traditional, often western, ways of making. Orange waves of light also vibrate through Cross' I tried to tell you how i feel but you didn't listen (2023) and the untitled 'Landscape Painting in the 21st Century' painting. Several individual works by Cross and Barrington also speak to each other through this mode of assemblage and in the motif of a wave form that repeats across Barrington's mark making for the Postcard works and two large striking paintings on burlap, his Sea to C: Sydney june (2023) and Sydney june victoria sunset (2023), which Barrington painted on his arrival in Sydney several days before the opening of the exhibition. Josephine Skinner, co-founding director and lead curator of Cement Fondu, says 'this pairing has taken form less as a collaboration and more as a layering and assemblage of two artists' practices-a relationship and exchange that, I would suggest, mirrors the methodology of assemblage often utilised within their individual practices.' For another cooperative series of six works, each titled after the depicted plant, Cross uses oil stick on paper to illustrate the invasive species of plants growing near his studio in regional New South Wales, including agapanthus, blackberry, and wild mustard, with Barrington adding painted blue borders on his arrival. Cross' addition of personal snapshots and drawn and painted elements lends these works a nostalgic, ephemeral dimension, evoking the disruption of distance but also reinforcing human connections. Photo: Jessica Maurer.įor the series 'Postcards 1-9' (2023), presented in an upstairs atrium, Barrington sent drawings on banana-leaf paper to Cross for him to layer his contributions over. Exhibition view: Alvaro Barrington X Dean Cross, Things that are real, Cement Fondu, Sydney (3 June–23 July 2023).
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