Philip Brophy | Colour Me Dead: Art, sex and psychosis – an illustrated lecture series
Image via The Potter | Philip Brophy, frame from Colour Me Dead—Chapter 5: The Hungry Vagina, 2013, synchronized high-definition animation displayed on 3 monitors, sound, 6 minutes. © Courtesy the artist
Philip Brophy has examined more than 3,000 artworks to trace how the nude has historically been posed, lit, depicted, rendered and transformed, he will present a series of illustrated lectures based on the source paintings of his current exhibition and forthcoming book.
Brophy asserts that ‘from Pablo Picasso’s grotesque shapes to Jackson Pollock’s splattered landscapes to Andy Warhol’s mortician’s gaze to Yves Klein’s exploitative anthropometries, modern artists have flirted with violent depictions of the body, decimating the once-idealised nude in a spectacle of aggressive deconstruction’.
Lecture 1 31st July
Chapter 1: The Illuminated Nymph: How the body is spotlit, highlighted, centralised, telescoped.
Chapter 2: The Lady In The Lake: How the muse titillates, lures, entraps, haunts.
Lecture 2 6th August
Chapter 3: The Morbid Forest Where the body is left for dead, to be exposed, to decompose, to be discovered.
Chapter 4: The Sexualised Chimera How the body is transmogrified, mutated, fused, collaged.
Lecture 3 13th August
Chapter 5: The Hungry Vagina How the body threatens, devastates, desiccates, devours.
Chapter 6: The Prostrate Christ How the body is laid out, kept flat, left lying, made horizontal.
Dates: Wednesday 31 July, Tuesday 6 August, Tuesday 13 August, 6 – 7.30pm (view the exhibition from 5.00pm)
Venue: The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Swanston Street, The University of Melbourne
Free event, for info and bookings: http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/public-programs/current-events/