Gus Monday
b. 2000
London Based, British / South African fine artist born in South East London.
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Gus Monday
b. 2000
London Based, British / South African fine artist born in South East London.
Duo Exhibitions
Selected Group Shows
About / CV Download
News
Painting Archive
Copyright © Gus Monday. All right reserved.
Ames Yavuz is pleased to return to Art Basel Hong Kong with an exceptional group of over 20 artists across the Galleries and the Encounters sectors. This presentation marks our twelfth year of participation in the fair and our fourth Encounters project, continuing our dedication to the contemporary art landscape of the Asia-Pacific and beyond.
Making their Art Basel Hong Kong debuts with the gallery are Nadia Waheed (Pakistan/USA), known for her powerful explorations of cultural identity, spirituality and womanhood; Elmer Borlongan (Philippines), whose distinctive figurative works capture urban life with profound empathy, and Thania Petersen (South Africa), whose multidisciplinary practice investigates contemporary and historic creole identity across the Indian Ocean. We are also proud to present the iconic series a dozen useless actions for grieving blondes from the estate of Rosemary Laing (Australia), whose practice has significantly shaped contemporary photography. Additional debuts include newly commissioned works by rising talents Channatip Chanvipava (Thailand), Gus Monday (United Kingdom), and one of Australia’s most iconic First-Nations artists, Kaylene Whiskey; each of whom brings a unique perspective to the ever-shifting terrain of global contemporary art.
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Space is a dominant organising principle that structures the way we experience the world around us. It plays out in the architectures that contextualise and inform embodied experience while also serving as a framework through which we arrange our inner lives. Our relationship to space is intimate, particular, and shaped as much by our psychology as our physicality.
Through closed eyes, darkly brings together three London-based artists who cultivate distinct treatments of space within their practices: Gus Monday, Julian Lombardi and Shane Keisuke Berkery. Referencing the Biblical idiom ‘through a glass, darkly’ and Phillip K. Dick’s 1977 novel A Scanner Darkly, the title of the exhibition describes how our perception of reality is imperfect and inevitably shaped by our own subjectivities. In paintings and works on paper, Monday, Lombardi and Berkery dissolve representational boundaries between internal and external experience, fusing autobiography and collective consciousness, sensation and observation, memory and encounter to explore how the complexities of human experience might be given form through artmaking.
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A gesture, a room, a memory is a conversation between contemporary painters as they contemplate the domestic, the everyday, and the small epiphanies of the moments in-between. Scenes which at first seem at perfectly mundane are re-examined to reveal diaristic moments of desire, reflections on identity and self, and the intrusive thoughts that enter the daily interiors we inhabit. The subtle pleasures and vagaries of the day-to-day are brought to the fore with tenderness, reverence, and a sense of inevitability, crafting a tapestry of experiences which are at once deeply personal and universal.
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