In the work of Michael Zavros, collected reflectively in this exhibition, ‘The Glass’, the mirror reoccurs as a visual and metaphoric trope, a device through which we may literally view the artist’s work as either a narcissistic folly or a serious meditation on self-criticism.
‘The Glass’ includes a myriad of reflective moments: a blackened bronze mirror in which we may never see ourselves, but which may bear witness to our deepest darkest souls; a baroque hall of mirrors incongruously stacked with shiny gym equipment that offers a trompe l’oeil reflection; architectural follies emerging from enchanted formal gardens and lakes, obsessive fashion gestures that hold a mirror to contemporary culture and an etching that depicts the artist’s signature initials as they disappear in an illicit moment of self-indulgence.
Tweed River Art Gallery
Until August 12, 2012
New South Wales
The Glass: Madrid, 2011, digital image
