ARTIST VICTOR GORDON IN SIGNIFICANT ART EXHIBITION FROM SOUTH AFRICA
HOME AND AWAY: A Return To The South

painting -Azikwele Fare Raize
D R I L L  H A L L  G A L L E R Y.
An exhibition of South African Struggle Era art repatriated by the Ifa Lethu Foundation together with the international solidarity collection, Art Against Apartheid,works donated to the South African government post-democracy.

Official opening by
 The Right Honourable Malcolm Fraser AC CH, Former Prime Minister of Australia
Thursday 26 May 2011 at 6 pm

Friday 27 May 2011 at 12 noon: Floortalk by the exhibition Curator, Carol Brown, with an introduction by Dr Narissa Ramdhani, CEO, Ifa Lethu Foundation.

Exhibition runs to 3 July 2011.
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 12 - 5 pm.
Kingsley Street (off Barry Dr), Acton, Canberra. Tel: 6125 5832. Director: Nancy Sever.
This travelling exhibition has been shown at Constitution Hill, Johannesburg South Africa, June - July 2010. The Old Town House. Greenmarket Square Cape Town late 2010 and Durban regional Art Gallery early 2011 After Canberra the collection will travel to the UK.

The IFA LETHU collection includes five large scale major works selected from Gordon's installation " Behold the Land where Satan reigns". (read more....Media release)
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Home and Away : A return to the South
An exhibition of the IFA LETHU and ART AGAINST APARTHEID COLLECTIONS

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Victor Gordon - Social Works image gallery

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Commentaries, asides and responses to various national and global issues.

Current post -Berlin wall political imbalances, American imperialism and global lack of "official" compassion.

Victor Gordon - Activist Works image gallery

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Large project devoted to the nature of power in apartheid South Africa (1983 -1990)

Subsequent political commentaries on a variety of topics are essentially aphoristic

 

 

Victor Gordon - Gender Works image gallery

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Works encompass stereotyping of the human form, mythical referents and current parallels, incest (PRETEXT), politics of desire, voyeurism and ageing.

 

Victor Gordon - Verisimilitude Works image gallery

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Gordon's unique focus on landscape invites audiences to review their own relationship to the deepening worldwide crisis in natural resources. His central message is the urgent need for environmental and resource conservation.

 

Victor Gordon - Taxi Works image gallery

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Sydney's nightlife playfully figured reflects the darker side of human interaction.

 

 

Victor Gordon - Zoomorphic Works image gallery

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Inventively investigates aspects of natural camouflage. A nostalgic reference to Gordon's African heritage.

The camouflaged leopard operates as a metaphor of hidden [mal]intent in humans and other humanly subterfuges.

Victor Gordon Dimensional Works image gallery

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Mostly capricious and comestible smaller works. Welded metal, wood and found or readymade objects. Underpinning aesthetic appeal often contradicted by repellent sharp projections and protuberances

 

Victor Gordon - Early Works image gallery

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Form: Ranging experimentation with techniques, materials and media.

Content: Classical genres and historical referencing.

Victor Gordon - Drawing Works image gallery

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A Collection of drawings now online for viewing

 

Victor Gordon b.1953 Visual artist.

South African born artist has exhibited, practised and taught art in Australia since 1987. Constructs paintings, sculpture, assemblage, collage, drawing, photography and installation. His wide ranging concerns and techniques offer uncompromising, refreshingly unique and often quirky and challenging artistic statements.

When not [subversively] exploiting the endless possibilities and per-mutations of Realism, Gordon’s work embodies a matured awareness of the diametric opposition between nineteenth century painterly realism and twentieth century modernist devices. Recognisable symbols and quotations are manipulated to offer fresh multi-layered interpretations and readings. Humour is often deployed to make hard-to-digest ideas in his work palatable.

Gordon’s art acknowledges the past whilst simultaneously addressing the contemporary.

Holds a Master's degree from Sydney College of the Arts - University of Sydney.