Artist Michael Zavros has worked as co-curator with Newcastle Art Gallery to re-contextualise early work, alongside new pieces created for the show which explores male beauty with a tongue in cheek title that refers to both virtuoso painting and ‘magic’ realism as well as a Hollywood blockbuster film about strippers. As a performative element a temporary gymnasium will be placed amongst the artworks. While mirroring society’s obsession with beauty, the show offers “a glimpse of the artist through an inward looking lens”, the gallery suggests.
Michael Zavros, The Sunbather, 2015, oil on canvas, 180 x 180cm Purchased 2016, Newcastle Art Gallery collection. Courtesy the artist, Starkwhite, New Zealand and Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales
Newcastle Art Gallery
Until 28 May, 2017
New South Wales
