Patricia Piccinini: Boot Camp – Victoria’s Massive Construct

About the art work

Cowboy boots are certainly one of quite a lot of tropes that recur typically in my apply. They are sometimes seen within the physiognomies of my sculptures. Decorative particulars from cowboy boots seem on the backs of them or elements of their physiognomies grows out of cowboy boots. I’m notably fascinated about the way in which that these boots conflate utilitarian masculinity with unselfconscious decorativeness.

They are each extremely pure, in that they’re fabricated from the pores and skin of cows, and extremely contrived, with their elaborate ornamentation. ‘Boot Camp’ is my most direct celebration of cowboy boots, a glittering, fragile pile of them reconstituted in hand blown glass. There is an satisfying irony in these most utilitarian and durable of footwear rendered in a cloth that would so simply shatter.

About the artists

Patricia Piccinini is a up to date artist who’s fascinated about what it means to be alive within the current day. She creates a world someplace between the one we all know and one that’s nearly upon us. She focuses on the emotional lives of the brand new creatures which may emerge, together with {our relationships} with them and with nature.

She is very fascinated about issues that fall exterior of our conventional concepts of regular or stunning, or that step throughout the boundaries that we erect between issues. How does up to date know-how and tradition change our understanding of what it means to be human? What is our relationship with – and obligations in the direction of – that which we create. Her world is certainly one of questions somewhat than solutions. Instead of telling the viewer what to assume she asks them how they really feel when confronted by prospects.

Patricia has exhibited everywhere in the world, together with the Venice Biennale, and in 2013 created the Skywhale for the Centenary of Canberra. Her 2021 exhibition, “A Miracle Constantly Repeated” occurred within the deserted ballroom above Flinders Street Station in Melbourne.