“Tyger! Tyger! Project 4”
Constanze Zikos and Juan Davila
1 June → 23 June 2012
For the fourth iteration of Tyger! Tyger!, Constanze Zikos invited Juan Davila to work with him on a new collaborative project.
The Tyger! Tyger! project comprises six projects mounted across 2011 and 2012. Ian Haig, Philip Brophy, Constanze Zikos, Maria Kozic, Lyndal Walker and David Chesworth were invited to nominate a collaborator and to present a work at West Space. Each resulting project interrogates models for collaboration and challenges notions of ‘established’ and ‘emerging’ practice.
Supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
Constanze Zikos
Juan Davila’s paintings interrogate cultural, sexual and social identities, resulting in a rich, complex and provocative body of work. Davila’s work has been shaped by the political upheaval during the Pinochet dictatorship of Chile in the 1970s, conveying the violence and psychological turmoil its citizens experienced. A distrust of nationalism and state control has formed a strong thread in Davila’s work ever since, extending to stinging and often hilarious critiques of the Australian political system, aspects of government policy, and public figures in Australia and Latin America.
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“Tyger! Tyger! Project 5”
Philip Brophy, Cassandra Tytler, Emile Zile and Johann Rashid
16 Nov → 8 Dec 2012
“Tyger! Tyger! Project 3”
David Chesworth and Katie Lee
20 Apr → 12 May 2012
“Tyger! Tyger! Project 2”
Danielle Hakim and Lyndal Walker
20 Apr → 12 May 2012
