Tag: Irresistible: eX de Medici & Michael Zavros

eX de Medici: Hollywood, the patriarchy & political power

Posted by Samantha Littley   ●   29 Aug 2023

eX de Medici’s The System 2023 (dressmaker: Michael Marendy) is based on her three-panel watercolour System (This is the Place Where the Martyrs Grow) 2023 (illustrated). It is the second garment the artist has collaborated on, the first being Shotgun Wedding Dress/Cleave 2015 (dressmaker: Gloria Grady Design (illustrated). Julie Andrews in the wedding gown from…

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eX de Medici: Technology & surveillance

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   28 Aug 2023

eX de Medici has been a strident and consistent critic of humanity’s relentless quest to dominate the natural world, and the technologies that have enabled this behaviour. Her unremitting and ‘forensic’ exploration of the weapon has developed alongside her morbid fascination with the long reach of digital technology. For instance, her watercolours The Theory of…

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Drowned Mercedes

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   26 Aug 2023

The exhibition ‘Michael Zavros: The Favourite’ featured the ambitious new sculpture Drowned Mercedes 2023 (illustrated), for which Michael Zavros has filled the cabin of a classic 1990s Mercedes-Benz SL convertible with water. Michael Zavros ‘Drowned Mercedes’ 2023 The most immediate interpretation might be that the car has been ruined through neglect, vandalism or an unusual…

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eX de Medici: Human skulls & helmets, signs of mortality

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   22 Aug 2023

Exploring the 40-year career of leading Australian artist eX de Medici, ‘Beautiful Wickedness’ focused on her meticulous, panoramic watercolours and traces the genesis of her practice through formative artworks. Throughout her practice, de Medici has remained true to her early Punk principles — a suspicion of authority, an ethos of political agitation and a disrespect…

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Michael Zavros: Horses, centaurs & the mystique of the cowboy

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   11 Aug 2023

Michael Zavros was an Australian national showjumper as a teenager, so thoroughbreads are in his blood. During the Royal Queensland Show — which locals have affectionately shortened the name to ‘Ekka’ — we look at a range of works that delve into the artist’s interest in horses, including centaurs and the mystique of the cowboy.…

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Michael Zavros: The symbolic subject

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   8 Aug 2023

In recent years, still life has been a pillar of Michael Zavros’s painting practice. Before you peek at the artwork titles below, look closely at these opulent arrangements of fruits, flowers, and vases on pristine white canvases as they conjure all kinds of animals. These works recall the fantastical proto-surrealist portraits of sixteenth-century Italian painter…

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