Mike Parr
The Hal­lelu­jah Chorus

24th June – 24th July 2010
Anna Schwartz Gallery

For the exhi­bi­tion The Hal­lelu­jah Cho­rus, Mike Parr has devel­oped a num­ber of large-scale prints and draw­ings, con­tin­u­ing the ​“Self-Por­trait Project”. Through the repet­i­tive nature of prints, as well as through the con­stant return to his own image, the self por­trait refus­es to be lim­it­ed by rep­re­sen­ta­tion and ref­er­ence. They posi­tion the view­er, as well as the artist, at a point described by Parr as ​“priv­i­leged anonymi­ty” – for Parr, the self-por­trait becomes a place of empti­ness. Parr’s inves­ti­ga­tions into the lim­its of both the body and the mind, played out across per­for­mance, print, draw­ing and sculp­ture, have been a major influ­ence on con­tem­po­rary art in Aus­tralia since the ear­ly 1970s. One of Australia’s pre-emi­nent and most chal­leng­ing con­tem­po­rary artists, his rig­or­ous prac­tice con­tin­ues to be for­mal­ly, phys­i­cal­ly and intel­lec­tu­al­ly engaging.

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Mike Parr