Michael Zavros, The Poodle, 2014; Courtesy the artist, Starkwhite, Auckland, and Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane.
‘Every artist is a conjuror,’ says Lisa Slade, Curator of this year’s Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art and Assistant Director Artistic Programs at the Art Gallery of SA (AGSA).
The theme of her Biennial – which has got the visual art world pondering – is Magic Object. It breaks from the kind of cookie-cutter biennale vernacular we have become accustomed to and, rather, turns to a somewhat analogue material illusionism to question the state of making in Australian art now.
