FAUSTAS SADAUSKAS Requisition of Matter
& gallery Australia
25 November - 20 December 2021 Opening Event Saturday 27 Nov 2 - 4pm
Requisition of Matter Requisition of Matter is an expose of selected works articulating the use of Australian marble to remake found objects into abstract sculptures. As works of contemporary art, they seek to address the process by which geometric volumes are recomposed. Originating as simple constructs, they are transfigured into recognisable abstract forms - the cylinder becomes a ring, the cone twists into a knot, the cube loops around itself, the sphere is divided into variegated hues, ovals interweave within their own space... The use of marble sees various structural elements within each work become fastened to create an equilibrium of pivoting shapes. Other forms are braced together or buttressed against one another, seemingly defying their own material shortcomings having been moulded and flexed into various contortions. In so, they redefine their own material properties, that sees uninhibited gestures of movement and fluidity. & marble - Buchan Vic 42 x 40 x 18 cm $5,500
What may be an industrial discard to some, can be reimagined to a new scale. The utilitarian hand held and purpose built becomes construed into a sculpture object. Fabricated offcuts, seemingly jettisoned from everyday use, are differentiated to find new meaning.
# marble - Buchan Vic 84 x 54 x 20 cm 12,000
D Schackle marble - Buchan Vic 45 x 37 x 23 cm $5,500
These works recollect a design function. However, unlike the detached fabricating processes and digital make believe of todays visual kaleidoscope, they are steadfast concrete objects requiring human touch – art made in reverence of real matter. Having delved into various genres in the past, the reoccurring theme of fashioning stone into sculpture continues to oscillate between the notions of the abstract and representational. As hard and as difficult a material may be, marble itself, when polished, takes on an entirely different hue as though contradicting its own density as a metamorphic crystalline calcium carbonate composite. The stone quarried from the East Gippsland region of Victoria is a rare commodity that few artists dare to challenge. Though spontaneity may be an uncommon trait amongst sculptors working in such a material, the patience required and the delayed gratification of the working process, add to the potency of each individual work. Inevitably, stone as sculptural matter, cannot be completely mastered or yielded to bare the artist’s will. At best, it may be requisitioned to serve a higher purpose and be granted the respect it deserves. F.S
Upshot marble - Buchan Vic 65 x 24 x 24 cm Sold
Omega marble - Buchan Vic 60 x 38 x 27 cm $5,500
Plait marble - Buchan Vic 95 x 44 x 20 cm $12,000
FAUSTAS SADAUSKAS Born, living and working in Melbourne EDUCATION
1989
Diploma of Education, University of Melbourne
1987
Vilnius Academy of Art, Lithuania (post graduate)
1986 – 1987 University of Vilnius, Lithuania (post graduate) 1984 - 1985 Studied for a Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne
Ring Grip 2016 Marble (Carrara, Italy and Buchan, Victoria) 30 X 26 X 15 cm Sold
1978 -1980 Diploma of Art and Design, Prahran College of Advanced Education, Melbourne
EXHIBITIONS
2021
& Gallery Australia “Requisition of Matter”, Sorrento, Victoria
2017
& Gallery Melbourne “Intersecting Parallels”, Melbourne
2009
Karazi Collector “Embodiment”, Melbourne
2004
Span Galleries “Skulptura”, Melbourne
2003
Bayside Corporate Centre “Ten Years On”, Melbourne
2002
Span Galleries, Melbourne
2000
Span Galleries, Melbourne
1998
Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne
1996
Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne
1995
Yume Ya Gallery, Melbourne
1993
Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne
1991
Blackwood Street Gallery, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITION SINCE 2011
2021
Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibition and Prize, Melbourne
2020
Montalto Sculpture Prize, Red Hill, Victoria
2018
World Lithuania: Horizons and Creativity, Vilnius, Lithuania
2018
Lorne Sculpture Biennale
2017
Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition and Award
2016
Lorne Sculpture Biennale
2015
Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award
2014
McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award, Melbourne
2013
Melbourne Antiques Fair, Melbourne
2012
McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award, Melbourne
2011
Montalto Sculpture Prize, Victoria
Threshold marble - Buchan Vic 137 x 33 x 33 cm $12,000
PRIZES
2005
Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture, Melbourne
2000
Association of sculptures of Victoria, Melbourne
1997
Hugh Ramsay Religious Art Prize, Melbourne
1996
J. Kazokas Lithuanian Art Prize, Melbourne
1994
J. Kazokas Lithuanian Art Prize, Adelaide
COMMISSIONS
2010
‘Arka’ Jalir Pty Ltd & City of Darebin, Northcote, Melbourne
2007
‘Segmentas’ SMA Projects Australia Pty Ltd & City of Port Phillip, Elwood, Melbpourne
2005
‘Tor’ City of Casey: Statement of Acknowledgement Artwork for the Bunarong and Wurundgeri People, Narree Warren, Melbourne
2004
’Beacon’ City of Bayside Public Art Commission, Black Rock, Melbourne
2001
‘Trilithons’ City of Moonee Valley Public Sculpture Commission, Moonee Ponds Junction, Melbourne
1998
‘Untitled’ Julian Burnside, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS National Australia Bank, Melbourne
Shield 2019 Marble (Buchan VIC) 65 x 63 x 40 cm $8,500
M.A.B. Stanthorpe Art Gallery, Stanthorpe, Qld. Telsiai Museum of Art, Telsiai, Lithuania Myer Foundation Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania Other private collections
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Split Ring marble - Buchan Vic 46 x 42 x 18 cm sold