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SUMMARY:Things Fall Apart
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nMike Lutz\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nThings Fall Apart\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]25 January – 5 February 2022\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 11am to 3pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\nan affirmation of hope that we have become stronger for having walked through the fire. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Mike Lutz\, Resting Between Screams (After Munch\, Before Tea)\, 2020\, oil on linen\, 46 x 46cm \nMike Lutz\, Looking for Icarus\, 2019\, oil on canvas\, 97 x 168cm \nMike Lutz\, [Title yet to be disclosed]\, 2020\, oil on linen\, 102 x 102cm \nMike Lutz\, This is Going to be Wonderful\, 2021\, oil on linen\, 92 x 72cm \nMike Lutz\, Untitled\, 2020\, oil on linen\, 107 x 107cm \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933f861-ccdb” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]The works in Things Fall Apart rise out of the disquieting period from which we are emerging.  Each painting considers an aspect of confinement and release. \nRanging in focus from individual emotions through strained relationships\, to the interaction with the environments we inhabit\, the motifs are diverse\, yet hold together through the common thread of shared experience. \nThe exhibition highlights the stresses and challenges faced by the individual and how we can become consumed by our own immediate concerns.  We are reminded that its not always about us and that we can become full of our own importance both as individuals and as a species.  There is a recognition that having to choose between ourselves as individuals and the society we live in is an illusion.  We are both and it cannot be otherwise. \nPainting in a nominally figurative realist mode\, Mike’s expressive use of paint is central to the mood of the exhibition. \nNotwithstanding the isolation and withdrawal\, there is a recognition that life goes on and though drawing on the dark emotions that trying times can produce\, there is an affirmation of hope that we have become stronger for having walked through the fire. \nThis is Mike’s first solo show.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933f861-ccdb”][vc_column_text]Mike Lutz \nHailing from the UK\, Mike has lived in Melbourne since 2006 and has a Graduate Certificate in Visual Art from the Victorian College of the Arts and a Masters in Fine Art from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. \nMike’s practice is driven by a disrupted figuration that is centred on the impact that painting has on both the painter and the viewer.  By submitting to an intuitive approach to mark making\, his work conveys a mood of disquiet and psychological intensity. \nWorking primarily in oil\, he uses a painterly approach to surface\, colour\, tonality and scale to derive unsettling and ambiguous imagery. \nContrasting the rational production of realist imagery with expressive mark-making\, the subconscious\, irrationality and chance Mike leaves us with a disrupted view of the world embedded in the material and temporal qualities of the paint. \n  \nEducation \nMaster of Fine Art – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (2021) \nGraduate Certificate in Visual Art – Victorian College of the Arts\, Melbourne University (2018) \n  \nSolo Exhibitions \n2022 Things Fall Apart\, fortyfivedownstairs\, Melbourne \n  \nGroup Exhibitions \n2021 ALLone\, Satellite Projects\, Melbourne \n2021 MFA Graduate Show\, RMIT \n2019 Fifty Squared\, Brunswick Street Gallery\, Fitzroy \n2018 Small\, Forty-five Downstairs\, Melbourne \n2018 Unplugged\, GCVA Graduate Show VCA Art Space Melbourne \n2017 VCA short course students’ exhibition Besser Space\, Collingwood[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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