Wednesday, 29th February – 1st April 2012

On this the 60th day of 2012, a quadrennial occasion whose rarity is expressed in the frivolity of those public actions that remind us of our impending slavery, an exhibition will occur. Conveniently this is an online only exhibition designed to placate those souls unfortunately restricted by geography.

RSH will present a series of 33 new works devised for the public consumption of all that is wonderfully abstract, hideously colourful, and patently obscene. Drawing from graffiti and abstract painting backgrounds Harmon is acclaimed as a preeminent painter at the forefront of art activism today. His work is marked by a sense of limitless expression and gestural forms that combine visceral colours and texture to create ethereal landscapes of otherworldly, often hallucinogenic, environments.

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AES+F, Allegoria Sacra, 2011, video still image © AES+F Courtesy Triumph Gallery, Moscow.
Allegoria Sacra, the monumental new video work by celebrated international collective AES+F, screened for the first time in Australia as part of the Adelaide Fringe.

Art Gallery of South Australia Director, Nick Mitzevich says ‘Allegoria Sacra’ is the third work by Russian collective AES+F in a broadly conceived trilogy that also includes Last Riot 2 and The feast of Trimalchio, whose visual splendour and magnificence captivated more than 82,000 visitors to the Gallery in 2010.’ ‘

This digitally animated collage, comprised of thousands of photographs, bombards the senses and offers a potent allegory of contemporary culture’, says Mr Mitzevich. Set in an international airport; the protagonists are suspended in time and place – purgatory. Here they wait, united by their desire to move from one world to another, yet remain detached and selfabsorbed, like the figures in the iconic Giovanni Bellini painting of the same name.

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The show will mainly consist of two important elements of Petro’s work
1) His ever present post Graffiti works
2) Work derived from his Love for Ralph Lauren

The first being an exploration of shape, style and experimentation of letter-form, the never ending search for the perfect solution.

Then there is the Ralph Lauren Obsession best explained in the following interview extract:

So why Ralph?
“How long have you got. I was a mid 80′s hip hop, an’ off the back of bmxing garms loving kid. So was immersed in the new found label obsessive. It was your identity, it made you part of something, a pair of nikes was all you needed to know you liked Hip Hop. No other bods were wearing them really. I’ve allways loved clobber and labels, you’d be mad not to, right? I could never get enough. Garms and Graffiti, have been a life time addiction, not like those passing phases, fruit machines, LSD or vinyl collecting… they had to stop. I remember the first Ralph Lauren item that came into my life, it was a gift, a blue and white striped rugby sweat with Polo embroidered on the cuff. I was 15. It was incredible. I’d never heard of Polo before. I wore it to death. I’ve worn Polo from then on, but my allegencies to Polo, took a turn when i began to ONLY wear Polo, about…i cant recall, sources say…about 1996/97. It made my life complete, easy, one tailor, one search, one love for all that is Polo. I had friends too, worms* related, who understood and felt the same, not to maybe the same extremes, but it was ours. Years later we discovered the Lo-Lifes, this was validation. The science of RL to me is perfection, the quality (it lasts forever), the cut, sometimes I can even fit into a small, the style, the classic, the bizarre, the B-boyness, the attention to detail, the fabric, the degrees of people wearing it, the topics, the graphics, the everything, the classic, the king of style…………one label, Polo Ralph Lauren

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