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MARK SIEBERT Forever 27
Opening 6pm Thursday 14 May. 15 – 13 June Artists Talk 3pm 15 May
Curated by Melentie Pandilovski
image: ‘The 27 Club (Joplin)’ C-type print, 100 x 70 cm, 2008. Courtesy the artist
Mark Siebert’s work has a kind of morbid fascination with slacker music culture, laconic, and laid wa-a-ay back. In 2007 he exhibited Fan Letters (Downtown Art Space), a series of poorly-typed letters to rock stars that had a definite conceptual art feel about them. Amusing and sometimes deliberately dumb, the letters touch on belonging, identity, and celebrity. His 2008 show Apples (at Greenaway Art Gallery) consisted of a life-size cast of the artist laid out in a glass vitrine, forever attuned to an iPod.
Forever 27 is a series of photographs and watercolours that explores the cult of the rock star and the ill fated age of 27 years. The photographs emulate the deaths of the rock stars Siebert considers the ‘most famous’ – Janis Joplin, Samuel Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones and Jim Morrison. Mark Siebert is currently 27.
“I didn’t get my first album until 1995, when I was 15 years old. It was Miles Davis’s Kind Of Blue. It is such a beautiful record and the perfect way to break the musical silence in my family home. Since then I’ve been an avid collector of music and music related objects. I like to listen attentively to the changes and progressions; I’ve never been brilliant at picking up lyrics. I listen to records constantly while I’m in the studio, I find it helps me concentrate if I can get up and flip the record” (Artist’s notes).
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Mark Siebert is represented by Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. |
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