Gordon Bennett (artist)

Gordon Bennett ( born October 8, 1955 Monto, Queensland, Australia ) is an artist of Aboriginal and lives and works in Brisbane. It is a critical painter who represents the colonial and post-colonial period of British colonization in his works.

Life

Bennett only found out at the age of 10 years that he is descended from the aborigines. After he carried out various jobs at a young age, he enrolled in the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane in 1986 and completed his artistic studies in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts ( Fine Arts) from. As early as 1991 he became the first artist of the Aborigines, who won the Moet & Chandon Prize for young artists in Australia, which is highly doped.

Work

Bennet works both as a painter, photographer and producer of printing works, videos, performances and installations.

He caused a sensation in his exhibition in Melbourne, which was entitled Colonial / post- colonial, where he met a drunken whites showed a work whose dogs kill an Aboriginal.

Gordon Bennett paints critical images on the history of Australia, and explores the British colonization. Gordon Bennett's first exhibition in 1989 made ​​him internationally known as an artist, because it connects the complicated path of historical representation with the issues of cultural and personal identity. He also looks at the colonial past and the postcolonial present. He does not give interviews or statements to his pictures, but says that the art speaks for itself.

Although he uses a variety of painting styles, be it hatch, dot painting ( points - painting) or graffiti, he further developed his own style. The Iraq war and the act of terrorism from 9/11 in New York inspired him to a further development of his style: In 2003, he first showed a camouflage series in pictures, which characterizes the style for him now. In 1999 he began a Pop Art exhibition under the name John Citizen to make the Australian Digg average.

Since 1989 he has participated in more than 50 national and international solo exhibition. His paintings were shown at the Biennale in Sydney, Venice, Kwangju, Shanghai and Cuba, the United States of America, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic ( Prague), Italy, Denmark, Canada, South Africa and Japan.