TED MCKINLAY The Library Artspace
The Last Picture Show
The landscapes of Ted McKinlay straddle a precarious zone between fact and fiction. Occupying both the space of dreams and an almost psychotropic reality, the works recombine elements of traditional and picturesque vistas into a series of flat and fractured amalgams of lysergic line and colour.
Art Exhibition
previously on
at
The Library Artspace
in
Fitzroy-Collingwood
precinct,
Victoria,
Australia.
From
Wednesday 11 April 2012 to Saturday 28 April 2012
Launch Friday 13 April 2012, 6-9pm
Published by anonymous on Sunday 25 March 2012.
Contact the publisher.
By continually encircling these somewhat contradictory themes (utopia and dystopia, concealment and disclosure, abstraction and figuration, beauty and violence) without advocating any form of permanent closure, the works thus allude to the perpetually-reconfigured and ultimately unresolved manner through which contemporary media(tised) culture construct and constitute our lives. By combining both images sourced from the media with those that have emerged from dreams and casual observations, McKinlay’s works are both mysterious, yet also strangely familiar; revealing the startling uniformity of our increasing tendency to synthesise all of our desires down to something that can be ‘googled’, along with the manner in which we then ‘crop’ our own organic thoughts so as to accord with the wishes and desires displayed across the surface of the screen.
(extract from The Last Picture Show- Dr. Damien Lentini 2012)
Location
The Library Artspace
100 Barkly Street
Fitzroy North Vic 3068
Wed-Sat 12-5pm
