ANTON PULVIRENTI - REDSEA Gallery

A N T O N P U LV I R E N T I

ANTON PULVIRENTI

6 SEPTEMBER - 1 OCTOBER 2017

Block 9 Dempsey Road, Singapore 247697 ­­ T. +65 6732 6711 11am-8pm Daily redseagallery.com

Anton Pulvirenti is an Australian artist who works in a representational vein, exploring issues of memory and narrative across the disciplines of drawing, painting and photography.

Pulvirenti’s work draws on his Italian heritage. Each image is a narrative telling part of a story from the artist’s emotionally charged perspective.

Anton’s familial view of the Italian Australian internments of World War Two calls upon the viewer to compare the Italian experience of the war to that of introduced species/pests such as the fox and the rabbit.

“These drawings explore the memory of my grandfather’s internment in World War Two and its intergenerational transmission to the present day. I have used human and animal forms in the landscape to depict psychological undercurrents of the Italian internment experience. The rabbit is an introduced species that the Australian government has periodically tried to control unsuccessfully which has become a metaphor for the Italian Australian experience of internment in my work. The placement of the rabbit’s head on the human body is telling, as it suggests a being led by animal desires. Indeed, the experience of detention occupies an existence between the animal and human: one governed by the absence of normal law in which one is not fully human. It is as if by drawing one can lay past experiences to rest, or at least lessen their destructive potential in the present.”

– Anton Pulvirenti

New Family, 2017 Charcoal on paper, 62 x 42cm REDSEA GALLERY

The Hunter, 2017 Charcoal on paper, 65 x 50cm

ANTON PULVIRENTI

The Lion (Majid), 2017 Charcoal on paper, 60 x 55cm

REDSEA GALLERY

The Sentinels I, 2017 Charcoal on paper, 56 x 76cm

ANTON PULVIRENTI

The Prodigal Son, 2017 Charcoal on paper, 76 x 57cm

REDSEA GALLERY

The Overseer, 2017 Charcoal on paper, 76 x 57cm

ANTON PULVIRENTI

The Sentinels II, 2017 Charcoal on paper, 57 x 76cm

REDSEA GALLERY

Lion II (Paul Garcia Jr.), 2017 Charcoal on paper, 76 x 56cm

ANTON PULVIRENTI

Lion III (Tam Cao), 2017 Charcoal on paper, 76 x 57cm

REDSEA GALLERY

Catherine (lagomorph), 2017 Charcoal on paper, 76 x 57cm

ANTON PULVIRENTI

The Archer (Majid), 2017 Charcoal on paper, 102 x 66cm REDSEA GALLERY

The Seer, 2017 Charcoal on paper, 122 x 88cm ANTON PULVIRENTI

The Guardians I, 2017 Charcoal on paper, 140 x 80cm

REDSEA GALLERY

The Guardians II, 2017 Charcoal on paper, 150 x 88cm

ANTON PULVIRENTI

Midnight Rider, 2017 Charcoal on paper, 195 x 150cm

REDSEA GALLERY

The Sentinels III, 2017 Charcoal on paper, 150 x 200cm

ANTON PULVIRENTI

ANTON PULVIRENTI b. 1973, Australia

EDUCATION 2014 Doctor of Philosophy, University of Sydney 2001 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Australian National University 1995 Julian Ashton Art School 1991-7 Private life drawing classes with David Paulson SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 Goomiland, DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY, Sydney 2012 Peregrine, Salerno Gallery, Sydney 2011 Lagomorpha, Salerno Gallery, Sydney 2008 Paintings, Sydney Antique Centre, Sydney 2007 Night thoughts, Gallery 482, Brisbane

Loveday, Mori Gallery, Sydney 2006 Less Dangerous than democracy, Mori Gallery, Sydney 2003 Ajumma, Sol Gallery, Daegu, Korea 2002 Close to our Hearts, Alliance Francaise, Canberra GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2009 Minding Animals, The lockup, Newcastle 2008 Callan Park, Mori Gallery, Sydney 2006 Exhibition of protest, Kurnell Peninsula, Sydney

Fundraiser for freedom, Mori Gallery, Sydney

Picture this, ANU Alumni, CSA Gallery, Canberra 2005 Artists on Norton Art Prize, Parliament House, Sydney 2004 1st Contemporary Art Exhibition, Trapani, Italia 2002 Snap, CSA Gallery, Canberra 2001 Hatched, PICA, Perth 2001 Lift Off, Graduating Show , CSA Gallery, Canberra 1998 Redlands Art Prize, Brisbane 1997 Churchie Art Show, Brisbane 1992 Rebels without a course, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS 2008 Scholarship to University of Sydney 2007 Chalk the Walk Champion Pavement Artist Chalk Award 2005 Artists on Norton Art Prize 2000 Canberra School of Art drawing prize 1995 Lexus art prize 1994 Scholarship at Julian Ashton Art school RESIDENCIES 2004 Residency in Trapani, Sicily, studying Sicilian Painting with

Felice Scire

For enquiries, please contact the gallery at info@redseagallery

Block 9 Dempsey Road, Singapore 247697­­ T. +65 6732 6711 11am-8pm Daily redseagallery.com