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SUMMARY:Greedy Pixiu
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nWilliam Eicholtz\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nGreedy Pixiu\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]25 May – 19 June 2021\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]\nSculpture that invites prosperity into your life after 2020? \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Social Media Moneybox\, earthenware ceramic sculpture. Photo: Ken Irwin. $2525 \n70% Gluttons\, earthenware ceramic sculpture. Photo: Ken Irwin. $4545 \n70% Gluttons\, earthenware ceramic sculpture. Photo: Ken Irwin. $4545 \nStrawberry Thieves Pixiu\, earthenware ceramic sculpture. Photo: Ken Irwin. $4343 \nStrawberry Thieves Pixiu\, earthenware ceramic sculpture. Photo: Ken Irwin. $4343 \nWilliam Eicholtz\, Rural Masque\, 2020\, earthenware ceramic sculpture\, 60 cm high each. Photo: Ken Irwin \nInvasive Species\, 2021\, earthenware ceramic sculpture. Photo: Ken Irwin \nOaken Pixiu\, 2021\, earthenware ceramic sculpture. Photo: Ken Irwin \nPufnpixiu\, 2021\, earthenware ceramic sculpture. Photo: Ken Irwin. $4545 \nCornucopia Pixiu\, earthenware ceramic sculpture. Photo: Ken Irwin. $2828 \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933f0df-cf26″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]\n \n  \nSculpture that invites prosperity into your life after 2020? \nAs a response to the global pandemic\, the ensuing racial stigma against Asian communities\, and the losses that people around the world have seen\, these ceramic Pixiu sculptures arrive at the gallery inviting prosperity and protection into viewers lives. \nPixiu is a hybrid creature with an insatiable hunger for gold\, jewels and money.  Playful and mischievous\, these mythical chimeras are one of the five auspicious animals of traditional Chinese culture.  Pixiu is particularly auspicious for those who have had a bad year. \nAs 2020 passed its wave of uncertainty through us all\, Pixiu came back from Eicholtz’s memories of travels through Asia.  Although not as well-known as guardian lions or foo dogs\, these playful figures offered new hope and stimulating possibilities.  Each Pixiu pair took on lives of their own as layers of contemporary Australian culture began to contrast with the insatiable consuming that we were suddenly denied.  Pixiu embodied the joyful folly and excess of a bygone prepandemic era… a world we are quickly returning to. \nAs anthropomorphic money boxes\, these lucky Pixiu gobble up good fortune and wealth for you and your home. All these creatures embrace our lucky multicultural country\, embrace its folly and look toward a brighter\, richer future… \nSupported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933f0df-cf26″][vc_column_text]William Eicholtz is a contemporary sculptor\, taking figurative art from its traditional lineage then reforming and placing it firmly in current artistic dialogue. Evoking classic themes\, his sensual sculptures rejoice in metaphor and the physical\, with a particular focus on the male nude. Eicholtz acknowledges\, in both theme and technique\, the figure’s place in the classical history of art\, then appropriates and translates it into a language infused with a humour and theatricality that embraces modern art. \n\n\n\nSelected Group Shows\n2016  Common Ground\, The Serendipitous Happenstance Project\, Kochi Muziris Biennale 2016-2017\, India\n2015  Deakin Small Sculpture Award\n2014  Courage and Light – Collingwood Gallery\n2014  In Your Dreams – Counighan Gallery\, Moreland\n2013  City of Hope – Peter Corrigan Retrospective\,Storey Hall\, RMIT\n2012  Art and Friendship at XYZ gallery\, 798 Arts area\, Beijing\, China\n2011  Grass\, Mud\, Flood – Blackall\, Queensland\n2010  McClelland Outdoor Sculpture Survey\n2009  Shelter; On Kindness\, RMIT University for Melbourne Festival 2009\n2008  Chaos and Revelery – Neo Baroque – Counighan Gallery\n2008  Idiosyncrasies – Johnston Gallery\, Perth\n2007  McClelland Outdoor Sculpture Survey\n2005  Helen Lempriere National Sculpture – Prize Winner\n2007  McClelland Outdoor Sculpture Survey\n2005  Woollahra Small Sculpture Show\n2002  Sculpture by the Sea – Bondi Beach\n2000  Becton National Sculpture Award – Gasworks Sculpture Park\n\n\n  \nSelected Solo Exhibtions\n2011  Gratuitous Garland\, fortyfive downstairs\, Melbourne\n2008  A Bucolic Folly – Maunsell Wickes Gallery\, Sydney\n2008  A Bucolic Folly – MARS Gallery\, Melbourne\n2007  Bounty – Melbourne Art Rooms\, [MARS] Australia\n2006  Rhinestone Pastorale – Michael Carr Gallery Sydne\n2000  Smyrnios Gallery Australia\n1998  Smyrnios Gallery Australia \nCommissions\n2017  Mullum Mullum\, the Owl\, City of Maroondah\, Victoria\n2016  The Late Edition\, City of Bayside\, Victoria\n2014  Courage\, City of Yarra\n2014  Record Requiem\, City of Port Phillip\n2012  Lights across the Sea film\n2011  Vincent Dowling and John Leahy busts\, Thargomindah\, Queensland\n2010  Solid Gold Miner\, Silverlake Resources\, Western Australia\n2009  “Towners Call” – Edgar Towner V.C. Memorial. Blackall\, Queensland\n2009  Harry Zachariah Bust\, Brighton Grammar School\n2006  Gippsland Wall of Recognition\, Bronze Figure\n2002  Lady of Justice – Victorian County Court\, Melbourne\, Architects Daryl Jackson and Associates\n2000  Army\, Navy and Airforce – Three Service Figures\, Australian National Korean War Memorial\n1999  Bradman Plaque – Sydney Cricket Ground\n1998  Farmyard Still Life – Government Pavillion\, Royal Melbourne Showgrounds\, Architects Edmond Corrigan\n1996  Poster Panels – Halftix Booth\, City of Melbourne\, Bourke Street Mall\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Exhibition List” tab_id=”1622430803104-657c0011-3215″][vc_column_text]CLICK HERE for the Greedy Pixiu exhibition price list. \n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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