Opening this week at the Deakin University Art Gallery is the exhibition Tutto featuring the work of Naarm/Melbourne based artist Charlie Sofo. Curated by Mr James Lynch from Deakin University, the exhibition presents the unique creative research of Sofo in a comprehensive manner to audiences for the first time.
“This exhibition surveys Sofo’s video and moving image artworks spanning over a decade with a distinct installation that references the educational setting,” said Mr Lynch.
“In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions, our worlds have become both more localised and atomised. Sofo’s practice explores the nature of our contemporary experience in these ways.
“For almost two decades, Sofo has used habitual activities of daily life as forms of poetic expression. Through the simple acts of sleeping, talking, waiting, observing, reading, walking and interacting with his surroundings, Sofo creates a heightened attentiveness and awareness of the senses, our local environment and our ongoing presence, use and impact in the world.”
The Deakin University Art Gallery is delighted to be presenting the work of this acclaimed Australian artist. Sofo has exhibited in many of Australia’s leading cultural institutions and has participated in the ground-breaking exhibitions: On Vulnerability and Doubt, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, (2019); The Score, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, (2018); Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Reinventing the Wheel: The Readymade Century, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne and Everyday Magic, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (all 2013).
The exhibition is titled Tutto, the Italian word for ‘everything’.
“The exhibition explores Sofo’s interest in the proliferation of objects and images that seem to mark the way life is lived, now, and how this accelerated, endless production of things, shapes our desires and subjective worlds,” said Mr Lynch.
“Sofo takes normal everyday experiences and turns them upside-down and inside-out pointing towards new possibilities and ways of seeing.”
The exhibition Charlie Sofo; Tutto opens Tuesday 15 February and continues until Friday 25 March 2022.
This exhibition is part of the Sustaining Creative Workers Initiative supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and Regional Arts Victoria.
WHAT: Charlie Sofo; Tutto exhibition curated by James Lynch. Free entry.
WHEN: Wednesday 15 February to Friday 25 March 2022. Gallery hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 4pm.
WHERE: Deakin University Art Gallery, Building FA, Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood.
