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LUMINOUS BODIES: Art and soul of jazz comes to Sydney’s inner west

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15 -16 April, at Luna Studio, 465 King Street Newtown, Sydney.

A group show featuring works by KIM, Joanna Durney Sanz, Tatiana Pentes, Simon Weir, and Geoffrey Weary with life drawings inspired by El Rocco jazz cellar will open on Saturday 15 April 5pm at Luna Studio in Newtown, Sydney with a live guitar performance by virtuoso Paneye and digital screen montage.

A group show featuring life drawings inspired by El Rocco jazz cellar will open on 15 April at Luna Studio in Newtown, Sydney.

Luminous Bodies is the first exhibition from Studio Cartes Blanches, a collective of artists emerging from El Rocco Jazz Cellar in Kings Cross, where Australian Jazz Modal and Free Jazz began in 1957 and in the footsteps of the Yellow House which housed an artists’ collective in 1950s Sydney.

The show is a celebration of two years of life drawing in the intimate jazz cellar, where an active community of artists, life models, and musicians continue to create together a unique collection of artworks, infused with the spirit of jazz improvisation and spontaneity.

Luminous Bodies – List of Works Download

Artist KIM explains the ambiance of the jazz cellar salons:

“The intimate setting of the cellar is translated into the artworks. Models are in close proximity to the artists, while live musicians inspire and provide a tempo for art practice. The original artworks on show represent poses of between 5 and 20 minutes of intense creativity.”

Luminous Bodies is also a celebration of two years of online life drawing classes featuring international models from Argentina, the UK, the Czech Republic, Russia, Spain, and Australia. The COVID pandemic, paradoxically, created a virtual space where life drawing experienced a renaissance, bringing people together in a virtual creative space.

The group show features unique works by KIM, Joanna Durney Sanz, Tatiana Pentes, Simon Weir, and Geoffrey Weary and is open daily from 10am – 5pm, 15 and 16 April, at Luna Studio, 465 King Street Newtown.

An electronic montage of the artworks will screen on a digital interactive screen in the gallery.

Media inquiries KIM e: Kimnn09@gmail.com
Follow @Studio_Cartes_Blanches on Instagram.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

JOANNA DURNEY SANZ
Joanna studied Fine Art at the University of Sydney and received a Certificate in Drawing from the National Art School, Sydney. She also holds a Graduate Diploma in Design from the University of Technology, Sydney and has worked as a graphic designer. Joanna was a finalist in the Blue Thumb Digital Art Prize, Hornsby Prize and Willoughby Art Prizes, and has won prizes at Hornsby and Parramatta Art Society Exhibitions. In 2022 she held a solo exhibition at Tiliqua Tiliqua Gallery (artist-run) in Enmore featuring lyrical abstract artworks and life drawings.

KIM
KIM is an artist, art director and designer architect who graduated from the Beaux Arts faculty of Architecture in Paris. In 2011, KIM created Cartes-Blanches, a collective of designers which participated in the Vivid Light Festival from 2011 to 2013, creating interactive electronic art installations (Artificial Light Form), (Cloudscape) (WeSeeSaw) and set design, ILTS (The Memory Room) in 2013. KIM digital art was also displayed in Perth from 2017 to 2021 for Urban Screening. Since 2019, KIM has art directed Studio Cartes Blanches, continuing his work on the form of the human body within the framework of Life Drawing.

TATIANA PENTES
Tatiana is a digital artist in the electronic interactive medium, with an inter/national exhibition record for over a decade. These new mixed media works were produced over an intense two year period 2021 – 2023 at the El Rocco Jazz Cellar, Kings Cross, Sydney with Studio Cartes Blanches. They are a homage to her late father Serge Ermoll (Sergei Ermollaeff) a Shanghai-born Sydney jazz pianist and composer. His first album ‘Blown’ at the Rocco: Saturday Night’ was recorded live in the jazz room in 1968. Explore strangeblackbox.net to find out more.

SIMON WEIR
Simon Weir is Associate Dean at the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. Weir has exhibited paintings and drawings for over twenty years with work held in private collections nationally and internationally.

GEOFFREY WEARY
Geoffrey’s creative work has been in the fields of experimental film and photography. Recently he has extended his practice into the medium of drawing, with a specific interest in rendering the human form. Working with charcoal, pastel, conté and pencil, he prefers a spontaneous and often improvised way of drawing the body. Participation in life drawing sessions with Studio Cartes Blanches at the El Rocco Jazz Cellar, Kings Cross, has facilitated these different ways of drawing.

Follow the individual artists on instagram at: @kim_artdesign, @tatjanapentez, @simon_weir, @geoffreyweary and @joannadurneysanzart.

Luna Studio Newtown, 15-16 April 2023

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Scenes From A Shanghai Hotel: cabaret neon

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Image from SCENES FROM A SHANGHAI HOTEL
An experimental film by Geoffrey Weary. Production Company: Strange Cities Productions
Director/Producer: Geoffrey Weary
Produced in association with Screen Australia (AFC)
Cast: Tatiana Pentes, Rose Tang — SCENES FROM A SHANGHAI HOTEL
An experimental film by Geoffrey Weary

TIME WAS…….
Geoffrey Weary

SCA Galleries
Sydney College of the Arts
University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA

PORTRAITS

Production Company: Strange Cities Productions
Director/Producer: Geoffrey Weary
Produced in association with Screen Australia (AFC)

Cast: Tatiana Pentes, Leakhena Sy, Rose Tang

PORTRAITS is an experimental digital work that explores three contrasting experiences of war and conflict in the middle and late 20th century. A woman living in Shanghai is expelled from China after the Communist Revolution in 1949. The ghosts of the Cold War appear and disappear in the crumbling ruins of the Berlin Wall in 1990. A young woman suffers a crisis of identity around the circumstances of her birth at the end of the war in Cambodia in 1978

SCENES FROM A SHANGHAI HOTEL

An experimental film by Geoffrey Weary

A Russian woman living in Shanghai is expelled from China after the Communist Revolution in 1949. Her story begins in a hotel room in Shanghai and ends on a suburban street in Sydney, Australia. Performative, fictional, and documentary elements are blended into a work that is suggestive and open to multiple readings. Extensive use of film leader and scratchy film surfaces add to the sense that what we are seeing resembles something that is illusive, dream-like, just beyond grasp…..or is it just a newsreel playing in someone’s head? Cast: Rose Tang and Tatiana Pentes

CAPTIVE

An experimental film by Geoffrey Weary

CAPTIVE explores the themes of repression, confinement and escape. These themes are expressed through the incorporation of grainy VHS footage shot in Berlin at the time of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, hand-held camera sequences shot in a maze-like forest and slices of footage composited out of archival Cold War films. As the real historical Wall crumbles under the blows of street hawkers and souvenir hunters, ghostly specters from the past appear then dissolve back into the scratchy surface of a long forgotten newsreel.

Captive by Geoffrey Weary from Strange Cities Productions on Vimeo.

My Mother Told Me

An experimental film by Geoffrey Weary

A young woman tells the story of her family’s destruction during the war in Cambodia, 1975-1978. Later as a refugee living with her mother in Sydney, Australia she suffers an identity crisis that is linked to the unexplained circumstances of her birth and the mystery of the father that she has never known. Cast: Leakhena Sy

My Mother Told Me by Geoffrey Weary from Strange Cities Productions on Vimeo.
My Mother Told Me

Australia’s audiovisual heritage online Australian Screen http://aso.gov.au/titles/shorts/my-mother-told-me/

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#GirlOnATrain

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Images: Geoffrey Weary & Tatiana Pentes, Performance: Jing Feng (Sophy Feng) & found home movie footage

Jin Feng (Sophy Feng) #GirlOnATrain - images by Geoffrey Weary & Tatiana Pentes — Jin Feng (Sophy Feng) #GirlOnATrain

#GirlOnTheTrain : Performance: Sophy Fung: Images: Tatiana Pentes and Geoffrey Weary — Jing Feng (Sophy Feng)

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OBJECT Magazine: Australian Design Centre: articles by Tatiana Pentes

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OBJECT Magazine: published by the Australian Design Centre
http://www.object.com.au/object-magazine/current-issue/

Tatiana TatianaPentes_Project_Object_ OBJECT_ CfCC_Vol2_1997 — Tatiana Pentes, Project: Object a jewellery/object installation, OBJECT Magazine, Issue 2 1997

Tatiana Pentes, Project: Object a jewellery/object installation, OBJECT Magazine, Issue 2 1997

Tatiana Pentes, Goddess, (contemporary ceramics), OBJECT Magazine, Issue 2 1995 — Tatiana Pentes, The Body in Pain, (jewellery/textiles/performance),OBJECT Magazine, Issue 1 1995

Tatiana Pentes, The Body in Pain, (jewellery/textiles/performance),OBJECT Magazine, Issue 1 1995

Tatiana Pentes, s Tension and Allure, Program: Mentorship Object Studios, OBJECT Magazine, Issue 4, 1999 — Tatiana Pentes, Tension and Allure, Program: Mentorship Object Studios, OBJECT Magazine, Issue 4, 1999

Tatiana Pentes, Tension and Allure, Program: Mentorship Object Studios, OBJECT Magazine, Issue 4, 1999

Tatiana Pentes, Goddess, (contemporary ceramics), OBJECT Magazine, Issue 2 1995

Tatiana Pentes, Designing the Future, (EcoDesign), OBJECT Magazine, Issue 2, 1994

Tatiana Pentes, The Devil Gets All the Tunes Wrong, OBJECT Magazine, Issue 1, 1994

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Geoff Weary’s film ‘An Eye for An I’, The Third Wave: Two Decades of the Hill End Artists Exhibition 1 Aug – 28 Sept 2014 Bathurst Regional Art Gallery

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‘An Eye for An I’, film on video 3mins
Writer/Director/Producer: Geoffrey Weary
Model: Tatiana Pentes

The Third Wave: Two Decades of the Hill End Artists in Residence Exhibition 1 Aug – 28 Sept 2014 Bathurst Regional Art Gallery

1 AUGUST – 28 SEPTEMBER 2014
http://www.bathurstart.com.au/images/stories/2014/slot_4/3rd_wave_Room_Sheet.pdf

“…landscape architect and film-maker, Gavin Wilson, was researching the artistic heritage of Hill End and the region for his 1995 exhibition The Artists of Hill End: Art, Life and Landscape for the Art Gallery of NSW. Aware of Bellette’s bequest, and withthe support of Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Evans Shire Council and the National Parks and Wildlife Service, Wilson invited a third wave of artists to respond to Hill End. Contemporary artists including Richard Goodwin, Anton James, Tom Spence, Wendy Sharpe, Peter Wright, Geoff Weary, Peter Kingston, Mandy Barrett, Emma Walker and James Rogers participated in a series of pilot residencies at Haefligers Cottage in 1994 and 1995. Works from these residencies were exhibited alongside historic works in The Artists of Hill End exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW.

“The historic Haefliger Cottage at Hill End and the spectacular surrounding scenery are prividing an ideal location for artist in residency, Geoffrey Weary, who is finding it a welcome respite from Sydney. Mr Weary, who describes himself as a video artists also working with more ‘traditional’ mediums, is the latest participant….Hill End artist in resident, Geoffrey Weary and Tatiana Pentes who are, living and working with the spirit of Paul Haefliger and Jean Bellette in the famous Haefligger Cottage…The house has all their things still intact, the cottage is pretty much as they left it…” in Inspiration For Visiting Artist: Hill End Artist Residency: Geoffrey Weary: Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Advocate, 24 January 1995.

Photograph: Geoffrey Weary & Tatiana Pentes

The foundations of the Hill End Artists in Residence Program were laid. In 1999, under the auspices of Bathurst City Council and Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, the Program was officially launched. In 2002 Murrays Cottage was refurbished with the assistance of the NSW Ministry for the Arts and added as a new studio residence alongside Haefligers Cottage in 2003.Since 1994, a total of 283 residencies have been awarded to artists from a diverse range of disciplines including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, ceramics, textiles, new media, writing, animation, film, sound and performance. Over 150 works by 70 of the artists participating in the Program have entered the collection through donation and purchase. The selection presented here represents just a small portion of the work produced in response to the landscape, history and heritage of Hill End.”

http://www.bathurstart.com.au/exhibitions/current/39-exhibitions/current/352-3rd-wave.html

“Celebrating 20 years of the Hill End Artists in Residence Program,works in this exhibition are drawn entirely from BRAG’s permanent collection. Featured artists include Jean Bellette, Ray Crooke, Russell Drysdale, Donald Friend, Ben Quilty, David Strachan, Rosemary Valadon, Greg Weight and Nicole Welch. A Bathurst Regional Art Gallery exhibition.”

The studio at the historic Haefliger Cottage

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Catalogue Essay, ‘Geoffrey Weary’s Floating World’, ACADEMICI, Roma, 2005

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Catalogue Essay, ‘Geoffrey Weary’s Floating World’, ACADEMICI: Academy Gallery, British School at Rome, The Australia Council Visual Arts/Crafts Board Rome Studio Residency 1999-2004, Monash University, Australia Council for the Arts 2005 p38-39 ISBN: 0-9756060-7-7

Text: Tatiana Pentes

MONASH Catalogues: http://www.artdes.monash.edu.au/gallery/catalogues.php#
Geoff Weary, prints 8 and 9 from the series: TIME WAS…, 2003, digital prints on photographic paper, 200cm x 100cm each. Image courtesy of the artist

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat…And the eyes of them both were opened… Old Testament, Genesis Chapter 2: 6 & 7

A sublime female body descends from the heavens, illumined upon the black painterly digital surface. These selected prints from Geoffrey Weary’s photographic series

TIME WAS…emerged from his residency at the British School at Rome, in 2000.

Exploring notions of the flow of time through cinematic representations of the human form, the artist presents and reveals both the precious object and the visceral shape of the corpus. The images represent the flow of time in the photographic realm. Time passing through and enveloping the body in frozen motion. The concealed female form transforms and reveals a knowing subject. The dualism of the clothed and the unclothed woman allegorise for the viewer the Biblical myth of the Fall. However, the artist transcends this idea through the repetitive exploration of these motifs, exemplified in this series.

Weary’s practice in the field of video art has shifted in the taking up of creative new media technologies and multimedia processes, to incorporate digital media, photomedia collage, where photography alchemically mingles the interplay of historical visual traditions: referencing sequential narrative film, modernist expressionist picture space, and the dark void of mannerist aesthetics. In a self-reflexive mode, Weary calls attention to the materiality of the paint on canvas

and pixels, the legacy of early avant-garde experiments. However, in true multimedia fashion, the fusion of stylistic impulses coalesce on his electronic surfaces, forming both abstract and figurative motifs, the convergence of art historical traditions, media types and knowledge.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. Old Testament, Genesis Chapter 1: 3 & 4.
From the darkness emerges the virtual play of light sources, signifying the shift from perspectival representation to the creation of an imaginary horizon, floating world.

Tatiana Pentes Doctor of Creative Arts (Digital Media) Communications, University of Technology, Sydney, 2006.