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ROBERT LUZAR
Harrington
Mills Exhibition Space
4th - 29th, July, 2010.
Tour & Panel Discussion: Sunday, 4th, 2010. 2 - 5pm.
The discussion will focus upon contemporary drawing.
Panel: Panel Robert Luzar/ Martin Lewis/Rob Van Beek
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Detail
from: PASSAGES (2010) Photographic prints derived from a series
of video film stills. |
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Robert Luzar, 2010 |
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In this solo exhibition, Robert Luzar presents three new works around
mark-making and notions of persistence of ‘in-action’. Through
video, print, and wall-based rubbings, Luzar complicates each technical
approach: extracting photographic stills and removing the moving-image;
creating an unreproducible print-template; and partially erasing a wall
design. Each approach extends what he terms ‘ways of thinking through
an act of drawing’. This involves critically examining a moving
body, which is in-the-midst-of-action while appearing ‘inactive.’
Being in the act can mean falling, leaping, or pointing, each are ways of engaging a process of investigation. However, is a process of investigation possible when there is no apparent subject to explore? In these works the body movement and its variety of positions suggests a possible subject, which does not immediately appear.
Luzar continues to use drawing as an attitude and approach, stressing its self-evolving state as a practice that expands its conditions and applications. What is distinct from his emphasis on the performance-based aspect is the colloquial sense of preparatory sketches, and orientations of marking solely for the page. Since 2009, Luzar has extended some of these themes and approaches into a specific PhD research project, lead through his artistic practice, relating drawing and philosophy.