New photographic works by CJ Taylor
December 2nd 2008 21:46
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9 December 08 to 25 January 09
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Opening: 6-8pm Thursday 11 December?
Guest Speaker: Rolf de Heer, Film Director and AFI winner
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Gallery 139 139 Magill Road, Stepney
Gallery Hours 11am‐5pm Tuesday to Saturday. The gallery is closed 24 December to 20 January, artwork can be viewed throughout January by appointment: 0402 095 355.
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. Albert Camus
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The beauty in nature and death unite in new photographic works by CJ Taylor for his first solo exhibition, flight, light.
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The large-scale photographs are concerned with the nature of beauty through the beauty of nature. They touch on the inherent beauty contained within familiar forms.
Strong yet fragile, the colourful wings of discarded birds are suspended on black backgrounds, drawing the viewer in and reminding them of the objects’ unyielding natural beauty.
The images are unique yet detached from their original purpose, at once beautiful in their natural repose yet grotesque in their deposed state.
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“In life there is beauty, but there is also a beauty in death,” says CJ Taylor. “Equally, in everything beautiful there is grotesqueness, a death not far away that defines a beautiful life.”
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Captured using a large-format camera the works are hand printed using the traditional Cibachrome process to present finished images that are finely detailed, technically accomplished and saturated with colour.
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In 2007 CJ Taylor was the stills photographer and project manager for the multimedia project 12 Canoes. Directed by Rolf de Heer and Molly Reynolds, the project of 12 short films follows on from the movie Ten Canoes to present the culture of the Yolngu peoples of the Arafura Swamp. A portrait by Taylor from this project was shortlisted for the 2008 Moran Photographic Portrait Prize.
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CJ Taylor is a currently studying a Bachelor of Visual Art (Photography) at the South Australian School of Art, UniSA. flight, light exhibition is supported by a grant from the Helpmann Academy.
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