Posted On: 2nd of June, 2015
Posted In: Out and About
EXHIBITION LISTING
The second solo exhibition by local artist, Jarrad Martyn
Opening: Friday June 12th, 6.30-8.30
Runs from: June 13th- June 27th
Location: PS Art Space, 22 Pakenham Street, Fremantle
It is considered natural to use free time to develop the mind and to gain a greater understanding of the world. Often when traveling this desire for knowledge is experienced through sightseeing tours, a method of spatial engagement characterised by a sense of routine and distance. Tyrant Lizard King explores how ones engagement with the abandoned theme park, Spree Park in Berlin is more lasting, because its consumed function is no longer accessible and therefore ones navigation of the space is no longer dictated by a controlling system of rules and regulations.
By collapsing the distinctions between figuration and expressionism, Martyn creates landscapes that operate between the real and the imagined and the past and the present. Aided by the use of collage to rearrange and reorganise the meaning of imagery from his own personal experiences within the park, the Ebola crisis and tourist brochures, Martyn creates a sequence of events that question how we experience leisure to attain knowledge while encouraging associations to the surreal nature of Spree Park
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