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Punching The Devil – Artwork

Punching The Devil – Curatorial

New works from Rodney Glick’s Everyone series. With these latest sculptures from his ongoing Everyone series, Rodney Glick presents us with a strange and intriguing cultural mix. The works are loosely based on Indian Hindu paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries. Glick has staged certain scenarios depicted in these paintings using Australian models, and these scenarios have then been photographed and digitally altered. The resulting manipulated images are exhibited as framed digital prints in their own right. These composite images also serve as source material for the Balinese woodcarvers and painters who have created these sculptures, with Glick providing direction and making the artistic decisions.

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Punching The Devil, A Solo Exhibition by Rodney Glick

PUNCHING THE DEVIL

With these latest sculptures from his ongoing Everyone series, Rodney Glick – an Australian artist – presents us with a strange and intriguing cultural mix. The works are loosely based on Indian Hindu paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries. Glick has staged certain scenarios depicted in these paintings using Australian models, and these scenarios have then been photographed and digitally altered. The resulting manipulated images are exhibited as framed digital prints in their own right. These composite images also serve as source material for the Balinese woodcarvers and painters, who have created these sculptures, with Glick providing direction and making the artistic decisions.

Through this work we feel we are in the presence of something significant. Non-Hindus are surprised to discover that Hindu gods and goddesses, while being divine, also manifest the fears, doubts and other psychological states

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