Faustas Sadauskas

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