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Brook Andrew, NO N. N., 2005-06, DVD projection; mixed media installation
Venue: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, de la Facultad de Artes, de la Universidad de Chile (MAC).
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b.1970, Melbourne, Australia.
Brook Andrew is a conceptual artist who works in a variety of media including photography, screen print, video, neon, sound and installation. Reflections on identity, politics, language and consumerism play-out as a complex world-view for Brook Andrew, one that relies on multi-faceted positioning rather than conventional polarities. As he says ‘Our obsession/anxiety with artificial and popular constructs of Australian Indigenous and other cultures, celebrity, personality, war, supremacy, revolution and spiritual fulfilment are manifest through mass media/cultural activity, lighting up our lives with popular, mostly singular illusions and extrusions of something that is not always us/me’.
Andrew's work clearly evidences a disgust for the social inertia of a culture obsessed with consumption. His works challenge the ethics of indifference in the face of images (rather than experiences) of extreme inequality, racism, violence and the like. (B. French. 1999)
Brook Andrew is represented in Australian national and international collections. He is currently exhibiting in Alfred Metraux : From fieldwork to Human Rights. Smithsonian Institute. National Museum of Natural History. USA; TRANS VERSA. Museum of Contemporary Art, Galeria Metropolitana and Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile; HIGH TIDE: currents in contemporary Australasian art. National Gallery of Art, Warszawa, Poland, and Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania. Brook Andrew is represented by Gabriella Pizzi Gallery, Melbourne and Stills gallery, Sydney.
