Aleks Danko
Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
CULTURAL MEDITATION 1949-2006: Your eyes are dark as night and clear as day
, 2006Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
Aleks Danko Some Cultural Mediations 1949 – 2006
1 – 26 July 2006Aleks Danko’s forthcoming exhibition “Some Cultural Mediations 1949 – 2006” invokes personal history, memory and beauty, through a series of highly detailed high key gouache drawings.
These drawings refer to his mother’s traditional Ukrainian cross-stitch embroidery; in particular to a specific cushion cover she worked on with friends at The Woodside Army Camp, a migrant hostel just outside of Adelaide, when she and her husband first arrived in Australia in 1949.
The drawings are cultural mediations on his Mother’s life and a way to materialise the psychic impact of growing up in two cultures.
The exhibition’s strategies run parallel to the more overt cultural and political discourses set up in his SONGS OF AUSTRALIA project that culminated in SONGS OF AUSTRALIA VOLUME 16 at The Ian Potter Centre NGV Australia in 2004. This time around there will be folk art, music, tears and above all laughter.
Artist’s profile
Aleks Danko
French polished timber, patinated brass, C-type photograph
Dimensions Variable
CULTURAL MEDITATION 1953/1994/2006 Meditation on a window-dresser’s nightmare
, 2006French polished timber, patinated brass, C-type photograph
Dimensions Variable
Aleks Danko
French polished timber, patinated brass, C-type photograph
Dimensions variable
CULTURAL MEDITATION 1953/1994/2006 Meditation on a window-dresser’s nightmare
, 2006French polished timber, patinated brass, C-type photograph
Dimensions variable
Aleks Danko
Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
CULTURAL MEDITATION 1949-2006 A birch tree in a field did stand
, 2006Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
Aleks Danko
Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
CULTURAL MEDITATION 1949-2006 And my father sings along with The Soviet Army Chorus and Band
, 2006Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
Aleks Danko
Gouache and pencil on paper
66 x 108.5cm
CULTURAL MEDITATION 1949-2006 And my father sings along with The Soviet Army Chorus and Band
, 2006Gouache and pencil on paper
66 x 108.5cm
Aleks Danko
Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
CULTURAL MEDITATION 1949-2006 Far away
, 2006Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
Aleks Danko
Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
CULTURAL MEDITATION 1949-2006 I see a village
, 2006Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
Aleks Danko
Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
CULTURAL MEDITATION 1949-2006 Look how the mist spreads over the field
, 2006Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
Aleks Danko
Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
CULTURAL MEDITATION 1949-2006 Look to the sky
, 2006Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
Aleks Danko
Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
CULTURAL MEDITATION 1949-2006 Not a sound is heard
, 2006Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
Aleks Danko
Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
CULTURAL MEDITATION 1949-2006 Oh! Beautiful moonlit night
, 2006Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
Aleks Danko
Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
CULTURAL MEDITATION 1949-2006 The pine trees are rustling
, 2006Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
Aleks Danko
Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
CULTURAL MEDITATION 1949-2006 You are always beautiful
, 2006Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
Aleks Danko
Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
CULTURAL MEDITATION 1949-2006 Your eyes are dark as night and clear as day
, 2006Gouache and pencil on paper
78.5 x 108.5cm
Aleks Danko
Installation view, Sutton Gallery
SOME CULTURAL MEDITATIONS 1949 – 2006
, 2006Installation view, Sutton Gallery
Aleks Danko
Installation view, Sutton Gallery
SOME CULTURAL MEDITATIONS 1949 – 2006
, 2006Installation view, Sutton Gallery