Abbra Kotlarczyk

Heterotopia’s Project No.1
2011
oil on linen
122cm x 183cm
exhibited as part of Painting 11 therewillbenoskullsinthisexhibition
Lindberg Galleries, Melbourne, Australia

IGNEOUS FAUX PAS [ROCK WORLD]

- THE RESIDENCE OF 150 JOHNSTON STREET, FITZROY, VIC -
THURSDAY 1ST JULY 2010

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http://mixedtapeproject.blogspot.com/

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sweet love for planet earth
oil on linen | 56 x 56cm

…reflecting on evolution and our relationship to the earth,
an aerial view of shifting sands in the Sahara Desert is
transformed into an imaginative other space. A heterotopia*
where cosmic colours and rhythms become impetus for
creative consciousness…

* Heterotopia is a concept in human geography…
spaces…
that are simultaneously physical and mental…

sands dancing like a hand standing
graphite on paper | 50 x 70cm

igneous faux pas (rock world)
graphite on paper | 25 x 35cm

flames dancing like a lion roaring (Terkezi Oasis)
oil on linen | 66 x 97.5cm

a caldera for ideology (Mount Oyama)
oil on linen

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Stills for a project on cell life

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Digital Fringe 09
http://digitalfringe.com.au/?tags=&creator=abbra&title=&mediaType=-1&filtered=go

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Open Studio | Level 1, Guildford Lane Gallery
24th September – 11th October 2009

http://www.guildfordlanegallery.org/programs/index.html

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Melbourne Fringe Festival 2009
Into the Red - curated group exhibition

Into the Red is a curated exhibition that reacts to current global threats – financial crises, climate change, war and pandemics. Into the Red traverses the external and internal landscape of an anxious world through the work of selected artists.

Melissajay Egan | Kerry Herrmann | Wina Jie | Leni Kae
Abbra Kotlarczyk | Pamela Kouwenhoven | Vesna Maksimovic
Alison Orton | Frank Prskalo | Lauren Simmonds
Michal Teague | Emma Waheed

curated by Emily Kocaj

23rd September – 4th October 2009

Guildford Lane Gallery
20-24 Guildford Lane, Melbourne

http://www.melbournefringe.com.au/fringe-festival/show/into-the-red

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City Nights | pool.org – Screening at Federation Square, Melbourne
7.30-8pm nightly in September

http://www.pool.org.au/video/john_jacobs/city_nights

http://www.pool.org.au/users/abbra

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Primers I – IV

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Concrete [Con]caves: Future Modes of [Co]operation

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City Nights [Pool]: The Midnight Marauder suit

http://www.pool.org.au/users/abbra

A PRIMER TO THE WORKS

Picture this

city streets and concrete [con]caves

a meditation on mindlessness

until grit and grind learn to behave

Blank emotions mask

as we walk through the motion

as graffiti graftings

and pages of history push past them

Intonations of times’ signature defeated

as hands fall to wall

and the whiting out

of natures’ vast sense of personality

cripples us all

Weighed down by local insomnia

the unbearable roundness of being

striated serendipity

at the concentric corpus seeing

Odic light upon the night

as midnight marauders

loot to induce a sense

of defiance to take flight

Human intervention collapses

like the curl at the end of space

where the movement against force

falls into a heav[enl]y sense of place

[Meta]physical matter matters for none

until the signifiers are done

reunite with the marks

of a modern [wo]man

whose [neo]tribal instincts have yet to come

[15th June 2009, part of City Nights project, an ABC Radio National initiative www.pool.org.au/users/abbra ]