“Standing Sticks” 3 – 31 May 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. Click for reviews on exhibition
“Tony Twigg: Encountering the Object”
A 94-page full colour book on Tony’s work is currently on the drawing board and will be released late this year. Published out of Malaysia with the assistance of a grant from the Australian-Malaysian Institute, the book takes a look at Tony’s engagement with the found object from the Philippines, to Malaysia to Singapore. With essays by Indesign editor and architecture / design writer Paul McGillick, Malaysian artist and writer Sharon Chin, a conversation with Filipina visual anthropologist Ana Labrador and an essay by Gina Fairley contextualising Tony’s work across these three locations and Malaysia’s response to the found object, it proves to be a stimulating look at Tony’s 15-year engagement with this region. It is a superb publication that oscillates between a conventional monograph and an artists’ book – using source images, sketches and Tony’s most recent work. For further information or to order your copy contact ginafairley@pacific.net.au Other projects on the horizon
During Tony’s prolonged visit to the Philippines in 2008 he will be continuing his research into Ian Fairweather’s time spent in Manila, Davao and Manicahan during the 1930’s. This trip will take him to Davao to corolate references in Fairwethers unpublished letters with what remains of the city he visited and perhaps, find a spider fight similar to the one depicted by Fairweather in his painting, “native Group” that he painted in Davao. Twigg showing with Ray Hughes Gallery, April 2009 The long awaited Australian exhibition of Tony’s work has at last been schedule for April 2009, for the main space at Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney. Tony’s last exhibition in Australia was “Incidental Placement” in 2004. While his absence on the commercial scene has been felt by his local audience, it has been an extremely productive time for Tony during which he completed a year-long residency in Malaysia, had 7 solo exhibitions in Manila, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, a two-man show in Singapore, completed three major private commissions in Singapore and will have had a major publication released on his work in Asia. In this case no show has meant he has been extremely busy! Tony’s return exhibition will offer Sydney’s audience a look at the shifts Asia has brought to his work in an old stomping ground prompting a consideration of what has not changed as well as what has changed. Twigg picks up gallery in Hong Kong We are delighted to announced that Tony Twigg will expand his oeuvre in Asia adding Hong Kong to the spread of his activities. In September 2009 he will have his first solo exhibition with Cat Street Gallery in Sheung Wan district. Steered by directors Mandy d’Abo and Kate Bryan, while operating for some year, the gallery has recently relocated into a superb street-fronted gallery. Twigg’s work will be previewed in a gallery group show this July. www.thecatstreetgallery.com Twigg at Art Singapore in October TAKSU Singapore will feature the work of Tony Twigg in its booth at 2008 Art Singapore. Be sure to swing by! 9 – 13 October 2008 at Suntec Singapore. www.taksu.com or www.artsingapore.net For more on Tony’s work you can read recent feature articles on his work in Jamini (Bangladesh), a review of his last show in Art Asia Pacific (New York) and a feature article in the September 2008 issue of Asian Art News (Hong Kong) all posted on Slot views, on this site. |
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