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Aleks Danko : my fellow Aus-tra-aliens / Glenn Barkley and Lesley Harding.

Aleks Danko : my fellow Aus-tra-aliens / Glenn Barkley and Lesley Harding.
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ISBN 9781921330445 (paperback)
Name Barkley, Glenn author.
Harding, Lesley author.
Title Aleks Danko : my fellow Aus-tra-aliens / Glenn Barkley and Lesley Harding.
Portion of title My fellow Aus-tra-aliens.
Published Bulleen, Victoria : Heide Museum of Modern Art ; Sydney, NSW : Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, [2015]
c2015.
Description 176 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 26 cm.
Contents Director's foreword / Kirsty Grant and Elizabeth Ann Macgregor -- MY FELLOW AUS-TRA-ALIENS: An introduction / Glenn Barkley and Lesley Harding -- On a sunny Sunday afternoon...living art in the '70s / Robyn Ravlich -- Colour plates -- List of works -- Biography -- Selected biography -- Acknowledgements -- Image credits and permissions
Summary This book presents artworks spanning nearly five decades by Victorian-based artist Aleks Danko - from his earliest exhibitions in the late 1960s through to his recent large-scale installations. Born in Adelaide in 1950 to Ukrainian émigré parents, Danko career began in his parents suburban garage. In 1971, after studying at the South Australian School of Art, he moved to Sydney where he became a central figure in city s conceptual art movement. The artist has consistently drawn upon his personal history in his artworks. The suburbia of his youth with its banal, architectural forms and seemingly anti-intellectual ethos remains a consistent presence in his work, as is his family's dark humour. He has also worked with a series of repetitive motifs, the most notable being a simple house structure, in order to re-orientate ideas from his own creative history into the present. Although Danko is versed in a range of disciplines, his practice remains firmly grounded within the world of objects. Using language as his starting point, he transforms sound, speech, rhymes, puns and repetitions into something more concrete. Akin to poetry, these text-based pieces are short and sharp, designed to be read aloud, vocalised and performed. In addition to many objects sourced from public collections, this major survey features significant works remade or reconfigured by the artist specifically for the exhibition.
Subjects Danko, Aleksander
Danko, Aleksander -- Exhibitions
Installations (Art) -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Exhibitions.
Installations (Art) -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Exhibitions
Added Names Harding, Lesley author editor
Added Corporate Names Heide Museum of Modern Art host institution.
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (Sydney, N.S.W.) issuing body.
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