This year at Melbourne Art Fair, Ames Yavuz will showcase a selection of paintings and sculptures by artists from Australia including Abdul Abdullah, Cybele Cox, Julian Meagher and Stanislava Pinchuk.
Abdullah’s first presentation of 2024 is a new suite of paintings of anthropomorphised rocks within highly detailed natural idylls. These works are playful reflections on the notion of journeys that act as milestones for new beginnings, greeting and waving in a way that embraces seasonal change and implies a sense of reunion after a period of departure.
Cox will present a pantheon of totems and figures that fuse symbols from the mythic world with utopian feminist fantasies. From bawdy goddesses and serene-faced moons to seductive hags and mushrooming breasts, her recurring motifs come together to form a new belief system built on a reverence for hybrid bodies and a re-flowering of the spiritual and sensual.
Meagher’s recent paintings captures the fleeting, fractured light of a rainbow in glowing columns of paint that pulse like heartbeats, creating what he calls ‘a cathedral of nature’. To achieve this, he spends hours and hours patiently building up infinitesimal gradations of delicate oil paints, creating a sublime portrait of stillness that sits between abstraction and landscape.
Pinchuk continues her acclaimed body of work The Wine Dark Sea which weaves together near-identical phrases from the leaked condition reports of Australian offshore detention centres and Homer’s Odyssey. Showing pin-pricked works on paper, Pinchuk explores the mirrored experiences of exile, displacement and longing embedded in both sources.