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Darren Knight Gallery is pleased to announce that
Ricky Swallow, will represent Australia at the 2005 Venice Biennale.
The exhibition in the Australian Pavilion will include a number
of carved wooden pieces in a continuation of Swallow's
investigation of mutability and the passage of time; life and
death; evolution and survival; monuments and memories.
Ricky Swallow has recently had work included in Getting
Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston USA (2005); The Ten Commandments, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum,
Dresden, Germany (2004); Living Together is Easy, Art
Tower Mito, Japan and the National Gallery of Victoria,
Australia (2004); The fourth sex- the extreme territory
of adolescence, (2003) at Pitti Uomo, Florence, Italy;
and Remix:Contemporary Art & Pop, Tate Liverpool,
UK (2002). A monograph has recently been published
by Thames & Hudson.
Ricky Swallow
This Time Another Year
Australian Pavilion
Venice Biennale 2005
Giardini della Biennale
Verrnissage 9-11 June 2005
12 June-6 November 2005
Curator Charlotte Day
Commissioner John Kaldor
http://www.ozco.gov.au/venice2005
venice2005@ozco.gov.au
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