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Patricia Piccinini
The Awakening, 1 May - 12 July 2021
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Dark theatre with wooden stools and projection of Piccinini's The Awakening.

Patricia Piccinini creates some of the most surprising,  provocative and pertinent artworks of our time. Famous for her life-like, chimeric creatures, anthropomorphic sculptures made of fiberglass and extraordinarily elaborate auto body paint jobs, and sculptural hot air balloons, Piccinini raises questions about how we define “human” and how we resolve the complex bio-ethical issues of our rapidly changing world.

 

In September of this year (2021) Hosfelt Gallery will host Piccinini’s most recent sculptures in an immersive installation. In May, as a foretaste of that exhibition, Hosfelt is screening Piccinini’s new 9-minute digital animation, The Awakening — its premiere in the Americas.

 

The Awakening is about something both quintessentially common and inordinately miraculous — birth. It is mesmerizing, beautiful and frightening.  

 

Based in Melbourne, Patricia Piccinini (b. 1965, Freetown, Sierra Leone) represented Australia in the 2003 Venice Biennale. Her sculpture, video, drawing and installations have been exhibited extensively internationally, including most recently in solo museum exhibitions in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Slovenia, Spain, Taiwan, Brazil, and throughout Australia.  

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Works
  • Sculpture of shiny orange and red automotive figure with four wheels lying in fetal position.
    Patricia Piccinini
    Embryo, 2016
    fiberglass, polyurethane, auto paint
    29 1/8 x 44 7/8 x 48 7/8 in
    74 x 114 x 124.1 cm
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  • Sculpture of curved bullet-train/phallic shape with zoomorphic features in shades of blue. Mounted on the wall.
    Patricia Piccinini
    Trident, 2007
    fiberglass, auto paint, leather, steel
    15 3/4 x 43 1/4 x 19 3/4 in
    40 x 109.9 x 50.2 cm
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  • Sculpture of pregnant torso leaning back on one hand. Torso has human skin, long brown hair and many bulbous protrusions with lips on the ends.
    Patricia Piccinini
    The Osculating Curve, 2016
    silicone, fiberglass, human hair
    21 1/4 x 28 3/8 x 11 3/4 in
    54 x 72.1 x 29.8 cm
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  • Video installation of close-up footage of two pulsing and breathing slits in human-like skin. One slit opens to release an egg.
    Patricia Piccinini
    The Awakening, 2020
    video
    duration: 9 minutes
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Press
  • The Awakening, 2021, installation view

    Going Through the Motions: Speculations on Birth in Patricia Piccinini’s The Awakening

    Variable West, July 20, 2021
News
  • HG Magazine Issue no. 30

    HG Magazine Issue no. 30

    Celebrating William T. Wiley; plus African Butterfly Research Institute, THE SMALL MATTER exhibition review, bug brownie recipe May 18, 2021
    Celebrating the life of William T. Wiley (1937-2021) African Butterfly Research Institute Renny Pritikin reviews Isabella Kirkland's THE SMALL MATTER in SquareCylinder In the Shop:...
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  • HG Magazine Issue no. 29

    HG Magazine Issue no. 29

    Isabella Kirkland: THE SMALL MATTER & Patricia Piccinini: The Awakening open; plus Rina Banerjee on 8-Bridges, Cornelius Völker, biscuit recipe April 29, 2021
    Opening May 1: Isabella Kirkland: THE SMALL MATTER & Patricia Piccinini: The Awakening Rina Banerjee on 8-Bridges Art @ Home New to Inventory: Cornelius Völker...
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  • HG Magazine Issue no. 28

    HG Magazine Issue no. 28

    Studio Visit with Birgit Jensen; plus Liliana Porter, Ben McLaughlin, Isabella Kirkland, Patricia Piccinini, Cornelius Völker April 16, 2021
    Closing soon - Liliana Porter: The Riddle / Charada & Ben McLaughlin: Ex Libris Upcoming at the Gallery - Isabella Kirkland: THE SMALL MATTER &...
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