Sympathy for the Devil
Shane Haseman
Exhibition Dates
24 April - 23 May 2009
PUBLIC PROGRAM
Artist Discussion | The Rules of the Game
Where | Friday 24 April, 3pm
Location | Artspace, Level 2, Seminar Room
Shane Haseman's work is at base a process of remembering the historical avant-garde, enacted as means of coming to terms with the avant-garde's recuperation and attendant accounts of the end of art, but also as an exploration of the ways in which it continues and might continue to be contemporary.
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Shane Haseman's work is at base a process of remembering the historical avant-garde, enacted as means of coming to terms with the avant-garde's recuperation and attendant accounts of the end of art, but also as an exploration of the ways in which it continues and might continue to be contemporary. This has precipitated an interest in the parasitical relationship between art and theory through which each serves to distort the other, and, perhaps inevitably, an ambivalence toward painting in a psychoanalytical sense, a sense that Haseman maintains is not personal, but specific to the conditions of painting and its critique.
His work is thus both situated, that is to say tactically responsive to its discursive frameworks, and interdisciplinary, exploiting the space between painting and craft, painting and sculpture, painting and performance, or rather, painting by other means.
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Shane Haseman, 'Sympathy for the Devil', installation view, Artspace, Sydney, 2009
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Shane Haseman, 'Sympathy for the Devil', installation view, Artspace, Sydney, 2009
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Shane Haseman, 'Sympathy for the Devil', installation view, Artspace, Sydney, 2009
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Shane Haseman, 'Sympathy for the Devil', installation view, Artspace, Sydney, 2009
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