“Standing Sticks” 3 – 31 May 2008 at Galleria Duemila, Manila Tony returns to the Philippines with a new body of work constructed in the Sydney studio. Filling both spaces in this Manila power-house gallery, this exhibit of nine wall based constructions made from casurina pine and plywood will be shown with two 3 dimensional compositions and a suite of seven small paintings offers a few new twists. Tony has taken his successful solo exhibition with TAKSU Singapore last September, “Expanding Discs” as the starting point to examin the potency of the space between forms. Most recently, Tony has been looking at the illusion that space creates when a circle is sliced into vertical fragments. How do the parts speak to each other and the vibrating shadows between positive and negative space? This organic dance in space takes on a ‘personality’, one that Tony plays up in this exhibition through free-standing sculptures that permit his totemic forms to engage at a human scale. Standing at over 7 feet tall, Twigg’s sticks are personified. They broaden our preconceptions of what painting and sculpture can be, and how we view found objects.
Tony returns to the Philippines with a new body of work constructed in the Sydney studio. Filling both spaces in this Manila power-house gallery, this exhibit of nine wall based constructions made from casurina pine and plywood will be shown with two 3 dimensional compositions and a suite of seven small paintings offers a few new twists. Tony has taken his successful solo exhibition with TAKSU Singapore last September, “Expanding Discs” as the starting point to examin the potency of the space between forms. Most recently, Tony has been looking at the illusion that space creates when a circle is sliced into vertical fragments. How do the parts speak to each other and the vibrating shadows between positive and negative space? This organic dance in space takes on a ‘personality’, one that Tony plays up in this exhibition through free-standing sculptures that permit his totemic forms to engage at a human scale. Standing at over 7 feet tall, Twigg’s sticks are personified. They broaden our preconceptions of what painting and sculpture can be, and how we view found objects. Click for reviews on exhibition
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