Opening 21 October, 6-8pm
Alex Selenitsch returns to Craft Victoria to explore theme and variation, creative use of found material and sentimental tribute.
Using a stack of found die-cut cardboard sheets, Alex Selenitsch has created a series of ‘unintended’ boxes, containers and objects. The original stack of cardboard was found in the garage of the artist’s deceased father-in-law. This work is a tribute to his father-in-law’s independent, nonconforming personality.
Selenitsch has creatively approached the source material by constructing 94 unique forms, each of which is a variation on the expected, standardised assemblage of the cardboard template. Although there are many more variations which could have been formed, Selenitsch stopped at 94 because his father-in-law did. Out of the Box: 94 Variations continues Selenitsch’s interest in making the stereotype nervous.
Alex Selenitsch is a Melbourne-based poet and architect. He has taught architectural design, theory and history at Deakin University, RMIT and the University of Melbourne and is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, the University of Melbourne. He is represented by grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane, and Place Gallery, Melbourne.
Out of the Box: 94 Variations will be opened by John Jenkins, poet and arts writer
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Resources
The Printing of a Masterpiece – speech by Alex Selenitsch
Theme and Variation: A Special Case of the Set – extract of thesis by Alex Selenitsch
Bits in Pieces: the half life of Data – catalogue essay by Kathi Holt-Damant
Opening remarks by John Jenkins
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Photography: Richard Brockett
Photography: Robert Colvin
