Reverse Archaeologies & Replica Autoprogettazione Exhibition Opening

Reverse Archaeologies and Replica Autoprogettazione

Join us for the opening of Tin Sheds Gallery's exhibition 'Reverse Archaeologies and Replica Autoprogettazione'!

Opening Night: 6 - 8 pm, Thursday, August 1
Location: Tin Sheds Gallery, 148 City Rd, Darlington NSW
Exhibition period: August 1 - September 20, 2024 
Gallery Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday: 10 am — 4 pm

Reverse Archaeologies

Signalling a natural extension of a long tradition of mutual spatial and material influence between art and architecture, an exhibition of new works by practitioners between these disciplines investigate the history and teleology of casting forms, architectural fragmentation and site-specific sculptures.

The act of casting site specific material, historic plaques, monuments, and architectural surfaces in clay, plaster, silicon, glass, metal, bronze & brick carries significant social and cultural meaning. By replicating structures in tangible materials, we preserve their memory and history for future generations.

Here in reverse, a narrative is concealed, transferred into a coded surface or becomes a sculptural object. The process of casting itself represents a form of homage and reverence to the original structure or object, paying tribute to its cultural and historical memory.

Replica Autoprogettazione

In our current era of rampant low quality mass production, connection with craft & clarity of authorship has been lost across a range of fields, exemplified by replica furniture. 

50 Years ago Enzo Mari presented instructions for a series of furniture pieces to be assembled by the user, allowing them to more critically view the increasingly ubiquitous mass produced objects around them.

In our current era of rampant low quality mass production, connection with craft & clarity of authorship has been lost across a range of fields, exemplified by replica furniture.

Similarly the encumbering of architectural processes through pressure from heightened external factors often forces practice into the realm of standardised systems, with complexities concealed behind a surface veneer, opaque to the end user.

Replica Autoprogettazione sees these systems brought into the light - to be seen, felt and understood.

Tucked away behind veils of undulating screens, a small-scaled room becomes a gallery within a gallery. Unveiled Conversations is a transformational promise, inviting you to uncover layers of truth, myth, place, identity—a world beneath the skin. 

A spatial celebration for the theme of Veneer, CIRCA Journal’s second issue, this exhibition invites you to explore a veneer’s material poetics—how you move, where you sit and what you touch are as much on exhibit as the body of work by the authors. Drawing together threads of parallel but overlapping stories, these Unveiled Conversations will, in time, stratify into a discourse entirely unknown, shaped solely by consequence.

Credits

Image credits:
Reverse Archaeologies, Hogan & Bourke, 2023. Tin Sheds view from City Road
Replica Bidenbum Chair - HVAC, created by Stephen Clement & Michelle Dunas of Complete Thought Studio, 2023

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