Location
Exhibition: Antony di Mase Gallery, 342 St Georges Road, Fitzroy North VICStart date
2019-04-11End date
2019-05-03Language
EnglishNotes
Terrazzo is an exhibition of original visual works incorporating elements of 3D works, drawings, prints, collage, models.Research statement
Terrazzo is a study of the visual power and presence of migrant houses in the Australian landscape. Looking at the migrant houses, again and again, and reorganising their visual representation, experimenting with how visual strategies may affect our perception.
Most Australians are able to identify what are sometimes called ‘Mediterranean Palaces,” houses built between 1950s and mid 1970s by first generation migrants from southern Europe. Smooth wire-cut brick facades, large and clean steel/aluminium windows, and spacious terraces - double fronted, triple fronted – cascading along the side of the house, along with materials used in new ways – concrete, terrazzo, pebble mix. Or adaptations of single fronted workers cottages aspiring to this.
These houses are mostly ignored and in the sixty years since they were built it has seemed embarrassing for the aesthetic elite to talk about the houses. And yet names erupted and their ugliness and detriment to Victorian heritage was cemented.
Terrazzo explores their visibility and our gaze. Do they become beautiful? Viewers are invited to review this architecture and the parameters of each of our aesthetic borders.Publication classification
J1 Major original creative workExtent
Visual Material including: solo works - 3D visual devices (9 x print image folded paper); collage (2x A1); + collaborative works with architecture students: Vanessa Napiza, Samantha Jackson, Chayakan Siamphukdee, Jacqui Jeavons, and Victoria Gantala - disparate visuals (3x perspex structures); street symmetry (4X prints); house section (1 x 1.5x10m drawings); habitus model (1X perspex model); Habitus A (3XA4 prints); Habitus B (1x folded print)Event
TERRAZZO ExhibitionPublisher
Antony di Mase GalleryPlace of publication
Melbourne, Vic.
