In a studio in Munich, Bax has created his new series of pretty little stupid pictures. In these paintings, Bax employs the recognisably domestic motifs of flowers and shoes and, in so doing, engages the potential associations – good and bad – of the viewer with these domestic themes.
Holding a mirror up to the multi-sensory pressures and pleasures of domestication, Bax thus asks the viewer to choose one of two possible directions in their response to his work: are the motifs familiar and comforting or redolent and smothering? Through the title of the exhibition and the tone of his palette, Bax further explores the validity and authority of beauty in contemporary art.
Anna Pappas Gallery
31 May to 7 July, 2012
Sample: Camelot, 2012, acrylic, wax crayon, charcoal on paper, 15 x 10cm
Courtesy the artist and Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
