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"Is Reko Rennie Australia’s equivalent of Keith Haring? Both Rennie, a
Melbourne-based Aboriginal artist who celebrates the heritage the Kamilaroi
people of northern New South Wales, and Haring, the American pop art great,
emerged out of an urban graffiti culture.
Both create a widely recognisable visual language that has a striking vitality,
sense of authenticity and a pulsating vibrancy. Both are deeply
autobiographical artists who created a visual code through which to share their
personal histories.
Rennie is an interdisciplinary artist who seamlessly moves between video,
printmaking, sculpture, painting and neon art. With more than a hundred works
on display, drawn from the artist’s two-decade-long career, this is the first
significant retrospective of his art.
Rennie possesses the gift of creating memorable images that are simultaneously
puzzling, intriguing and entertaining. On entering the gallery, you encounter a
1973 Rolls-Royce Corniche decorated with the strange camouflage colours that
reoccur throughout Rennie’s art. The physical car is accompanied by a
three-channel video work with a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds soundtrack."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
