Image: Lilyan Stark
GALLERY ONE | LILYAN STARK
THE GLORY OF MAN: GUYS BEING DUDES
FRI 15 JUL 5.30PM- FRI 12 AUG 5.00PM
OPENING EVENT 15 JUL, 5.30-8.00PM
FREE TO ATTEND
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Monday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Tuesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Wednesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Saturday 10.00am - 3.00pm
Sunday closed
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Platform Arts is wheelchair-accessible via our Gheringhap St entrance. Unlocked, accessible bathrooms are available on both ground and first floors.
For accessibility enquiries, please directly contact us at hello@platformarts.org.au
Please note, Platform Arts is a dry venue.
The Glory of Man: Guys Being Dudes is a series of paintings dedicated to the simple strangeness of men as an entity. Drawing on a range of imagery sourced predominantly from miscellaneous parts of the Internet, this exhibition showcases the clumsiness and dare-devil manner proudly displayed by some men. An abundant source of inspiration comes from viral videos which depict men attempting physical and recreational activities while ultimately failing. Other endeavours related to the aforementioned viral video include activities that push the parameters of the proud machismo physique, including fitness, and on the flip-side, hedonism.
Inspired by the emergence of online viral videos and TV programs such as Jackass, this exhibition fondly immortalises the absurd lengths to which men go in order to express their machismo. This is a fun and humorous entrance into the artist’s own gaze of what macho men are, and what they are capable of being.
Dudes are strange, intriguing and endless. The question of why? is pondered thoroughly, wondering why men are attracted to hedonistic, adrenaline-fuelled activities and hobbies, and why such a thing lacks presence in the world of art. This is an artistic endeavour into one niche fragment of the broad and ultimately undefinable realm of masculinity.
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Lilyan Stark is an emerging artist based in Naarm, who is currently completing an Honours degree in Fine Art at RMIT University. Her works explore an array of themes including Pop Culture, absurdity, class and subculture. Through her oeuvre, she curiously and humorously interrogates the outdatedness of late-20th and early-21st Century Pop and subculture remnants. She desires to subvert the idea of “cool” by bringing to light to bygone, obsolete fragments of Pop.
Lilyan’s painting style consists of washed out, painterly strokes that often blur the lines between the figuration and abstraction that celebrate and interpolate dreamlike, fun and nostalgic fragments of the past. Her works pose as a unique and individual gaze into niche territories that are visually informed and inspired by the digital, online screen.
