Artists

Live and works in Brisbane

Carchesio collects the images that emerge from the subconscious.

Since the early 1980s Eugene Carchesio has built a solid reputation producing small scale watercolours and minute sculpture. Carchesio's works fuse plays with geometric patterns and figurative symbolism. Through his subtle images Carchesio attempts to create an ontological space emptied of the clutter of everyday life, in which imagery from the subconscious can emerge. His considered placement of interlocking shapes alludes to the science of mathematics and highlights his interest in the purity of shapes and geometry. There is a distinct emphasis on process in Carchesio's intimate works, this becomes manifest through the visible inconsistencies and variations of pigment application that can be observed in his works.

Carchesio has held numerous exhibitions at Sutton Gallery Melbourne, other solo exhibitions have included everything takes time takes everything at the Institute of Modern Art Brisbane in 2006; New Work, Church Gallery in Perth; 2002Australian Representative, 10th Indian Triennale of Art held in New Delhi, India in 2001; Lift Project, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra in 2001 and Gelber, MUSIK BERLIN in 1997.

Carchesio's work is held in major museums and collections throughout Australia. He has also been curated into many important exhibitions both in Australia and internationally including Heavenly Creatures, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne in 2004; Contemporary Queensland Sculpture, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane; Ephemeral, University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide, 2004; Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2003; Contemporary Drawing, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Centre, New York, 2002; Phenomena, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2001; Moet & Chandon National Touring Exhibition in 1994; 9th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney in 1992; Medium Density: Contemporary Australian Drawings and Photographs, Australian National Gallery, Canberra in 1992 and Strangers in Paradise, Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, 1992.

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