#darrensylvester

[sujini123]

👀 . #c3 #exhibition112 🥰 #darrensylvester 나의최애공간, 역시 🤩 #tomnicholson 이제 새로운게 있을까 싶을때쯤 발견한 새로움 #kingsartistrun #juneexhibitions 노올랍게도 이번이 첫방문 #chiaoyenhsu #madeleinethorntonsmith 😃 (at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByuSS4NFxeW/?igshid=9qkthksh9r99

[nathaliemdavid]

Favs from the Darren Sylvester exhibition: - "Hard to say I'm sorry" (2014) - "Broken model" (2016) . #darrensylvester #art #contemporaryart #australianartists #photography #popculture #popmusic #stagedphotography #ngv #gallery #exhibition #branding #fashion #museum #melbourne #australia #visitaustralia #solotraveler #freelancelife #backpacker #ontheroad #travelaroundtheworld #travelbug #traveling #wanderer #instatravel #worldtravel (à National Gallery of Victoria) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu5WLWvFeKP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11zwi7zs6up6a

[nathaliemdavid]

Exhibition dedicated to Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist Darren Sylvester, "Carve a future, devour everything, become something": - "For you" (installation, 2013) - "Your first love is your last love" (2005) and "Our future was ours" (2006) - "Just death is true" (2006) - "Don't worry, I'm just temporary" (2005) and "Time has life's meaning" (2007) . #darrensylvester #art #contemporaryart #australianartists #photography #popculture #popmusic #stagedphotography #branding #ngv #gallery #exhibition #museum #melbourne #australia #visitaustralia #solotraveler #freelancelife #backpacker #ontheroad #travelaroundtheworld #travelbug #traveling #wanderer #instatravel #worldtravel (à National Gallery of Victoria) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu5VjvnFUPo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ivso9gwdpj0f

[atticusaurelius]

How disco are you feeling today? #ngv #melbournenow #darrensylvester

[infearofwant]

"Tears in the Shower'

Darren Sylvester – Monday May 20th 2013 – PSM Lecture Series

The penultimate lecture of this series featured Melbourne based artist, Darren Sylvester. It seemed that a lot of us knew a little bit about Darren but none of us had any clue just how many pies he had fingers in. He is – or at least was initially – a photographer. Using a method many lecturers might consider contradictory to standard practice (if there is such a thing), Sylvester starts with a title. To be more specific he starts with words, an idea, a sentence… reminiscent of song lyrics, and the rest evolves from there.

  (Sylvester 2007)

Though it was debated amongst our tutorial, I feel that Darren’s work has a cinematic aesthetic combined with an advertising feel. At first glance I would never have assumed the terrific amount of work that exists for him to create each shot. I joked that if Thomas Demand and Petrina Hicks had a love child with a great sense of humor… Voila! Darren Sylvester. Though there is certainly more to him than that. His career has seen him move from photography into video, to sculpture and publishing a book, to making music and touring – and back again. He wears one hat until it tires him and then swaps it out for another. After a massive construction for a video project that I can’t help but describe it as an homage to his beloved The Carpenter’s (I Was the Last in the Carpenters’ Garden 2008), he’d had enough video to last a lifetime. Along with the Carpenter’s, he cites Peter Savilles’ record covers and Steven Kleins photography as sources of inspiration.

(Sylvester 2008)

Though Sylvester’s photographic work didn’t immediately grip my attention, his personality sucked me right in. Like many of the artist’s that have kindly spoken to us, there is a slight insecurity in his nature. He speaks openly about his fear of death being the major catalyst to most of his work. Hi is the antithesis of lazy! He never shies away from working in any medium, no matter how unfamiliar, he just dives right in and figures it out along the way. Above anything I walked away from his lecture with a reality check. No one is born with the knowledge of how to do something, it is a process, and if we never try we will never learn. No risk, no reward!

Image References:

Sylvester 2007, Futureshipwreck.com, viewed Sunday May 26th 2013,

http://www.futureshipwreck.com/category/pop-culture/page/2/

Sylvester 2008, Sullivanstrumpf.com, viewed Sunday May 26th 2013,

http://sullivanstrumpf.com/exhibitions/60/art/4383/