GOMA’s largest-ever survey of the prize-winning Brisbane artist’s work includes a Mercedes-Benz filled with water and an enormous painting of the Parthenon.
, completed in 1999 and 2000, respectively – carefully detailed miniatures inspired by fashion photography in men’s magazines. Ask Zavros how he reflects on these works he created when aged just 24, he jokes: “If I get close to one of those things, I need to grab a pair of glasses. That’s what’s changed.”
“And the more time I spent with those artists and their work, the more I started to feel like this thing I’d been doing was a little anaemic and just wasn’t quite doing what I wanted, physically. The Favourite exhibition at GOMA is the largest-ever survey of Zavros’ work – a summation of his 25-year artistic trajectory., for which Zavros is taking a classic Mercedes-Benz SL-class drop-top and filling it with water.“But small-scale sculpture and drawing, and then photography and film, in a very natural way, crept into what I was showing because I was already utilising those things. So just showing the photograph, and not painting it, was something I started doing.
It’s why he can be a polarising artist, with some viewers reacting negatively to the apparent materialism.
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