Ball: Anthony Bennett (Australian artist)

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Anthony Bennett is an Australian artist born in Mackay Queensland in 1966. He has lived and worked in Tokyo, Rome and London and has exhibited nationally in Australia and internationally, sometimes controversially, with accusations from family groups in Brisbane in 2003 that his exhibition 'the dirty sanchez manifesto' was pornographic. He is a finalist in the Archibald Prize for 2009 as he was in 2008. He is also a finalist in both the Wynne and Sulman Prizes for 2009, was featured in 2007 as one of the 'hot young queensland painters' interviewed on ABC TV's Sunday Arts programme and also won the renault new generation art award at Art Sydney 07. He has also been a finalist in the prestigious Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Sculpture by the Sea, The Schubert Ulrick Photographic Awards and the Cromwell's Art Prize. In 2004 he was awarded a Bundanon residency. Graduating from Griffith University Queensland College of Art with a Bachelor of Visual Art and majors in painting and sculpture in 1999.

Described in Art & Australia in 2006 as, a "potent anti-corporate poet" by reviewer Vikki Riley, his work uses the language and imagery of the everyday, appropriating pop culture with grabs from advertising, cartoons, music and movie stars and references respectful and otherwise to art history. He refers as much to Kierkegaard and Camus as Kath and Kim. His imagery is smeared and distorted in an extreme form of expressionism that quotes from Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Brett Whiteley, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cy Twombly. His titles are integral components and often mash words into the perceptive equation to play off the imagery, adding to the semantic game and augmenting the mood of dissent, while also revealing much about his practice. His work is contained in many private collections in Australia, New Zealand, Austria, China, Japan, Italy and England.Artist's folio site

Contents

1 Pop Cannibal

2 Tragic Inspiration

3 The Vatican Thing

4 Cho Sagoi Desu Ne

5 Super Thanks for Asking

6 References

7 See also

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Pop Cannibal

Bennett paints every day and links every section of his life to his art. It has become second nature and is incorporated through the use imagery and text that is absorbed so fully from television and other mass media, and even conversations with friends, that it is as integral to the work as the paint or the canvas. Pop culture becomes the words that he uses to construct his artistic sentences. These make the conversation as relevant or useless as the experience of the viewer of the works will allow. "If the viewer is aware of Freud or Jung then a discussion of the ideas those heavyweight thinkers have provided us is in play. If the viewer is only aware of the last Hollywood version of 'Superman', but not Nietzsche's version then that might be just as relevant to them, but not necessarily the end of the story...." says Bennett

"I don't really like conversations about art," he continues "because I think art is a visual language in and of itself and when you learn that language properly, why talk over the top of it. To do that is like the annoying git at the movies who explains what's happening to the person beside them throughout the whole movie and ultimately ruins the experience for everyone else around them."

"I used to think that conversations should be reserved purely for philosophical debate" he states, "...but now realise that they can also be useful as a way of finding out what's on television in the evenings....unfortunately though most humans talk simply because it's the only way they are able, in their own minds, to separate themselves from monkeys."

"I think the influences in my work are obvious but prefer the viewer to discover them for themselves ...after all why should everything be spoon-fed to you. The people that appreciate and collect my work are generally well educated, well rounded and like to draw their own conclusions anyway....you either get it or you don't...I am not here to preach and I also think it is a mistake to underestimate your audience"

"Pop Cannibal is the term I use for it. The Tarantino or Simpsons style mix and match of genres in equal parts homage and/or critique. Not always equal parts either, as nothing should be written in stone. It depends on mood, day of the week, the quality of the wine consumed etc."

Tragic Inspiration

The death of Bennett's mother and brother in a car accident when he was still a teenager was naturally the cause of profound changes in his life. Already an introspective individual this caused a shift further in that particular direction. He sought answers to the big questions and an explanation for the pain and he explored the philosophers of the past for some kind of guidance in that area. He contemplated suicide on more than one occasion. "I have many friends that have thought about it..." he said " I think...(and so on)