This exhibition is on view until 12 August at at Dominik Mersch Gallery in Rushcutters Bay, NSW.
Lottie Consalvo is a Newcastle based artist working across painting, performance, video and photography.
Consalvo’s work explores altered states of consciousness. Her abstract paintings all have a performative element and capture a physical presence for imagination, memory and psychological transition.
Since her return from living and working in Germany in 2012, where she developed her performance practice, her work has gained increasing recognition and prestige.
This current exhibition presents the dark side of human desire and examines the relentless nature of the human condition. IN SILENCE questions if our nourishing of endless desire is healthy for our souls and foregrounds the probability that desire can push us to self destruct.
“This next exhibition is about the opposite of desire. It is about stillness. When making this work I was thinking about the concept of leaving paradise to find something better. I did a performance called ‘Desires’ where I lived out my desires for a year in an attempt to find ultimate happiness and though I have not documented that work, I am now looking at perpetual idealism. These paintings are like moments when we do stop, when we are moved to silence and stillness, whether it be in the presence of something great or something simple in our everyday that moves us emotionally, taking us to that sublime state,” Lottie Consalvo says.
Balancing negative black space against bold white and mustard greens, Consalvo’s large acrylic on board works delve deep into the underside of desire. Dominik Mersch who has just signed Consalvo to his stable of outstanding artists says he was drawn to her work because of its sheer capacity for dynamism.
“I first came across Lottie Consalvo’s performance practice when she was part of John Kaldor’s Marina Abramovic project in 2015. At the time I didn’t knew that her practice was comprised of both performance and painting. I was pleasantly surprised when an invited curator included her in a group show at the gallery earlier this year. Lottie had three paintings in the exhibition and when I first saw them in the flesh I was mesmerised by their presence and power,”
Dominik Mersch said.
Dominik Mersch Gallery
Upstairs 75 McLachlan Ave,
RUSHCUTTERS BAY, NSW, 2011, Australia
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For more about ‘in silence’ by Lottie Consalvo, visit http://www.dominikmerschgallery.com
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