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Eugene Carchesio

born

1960

lives and works

Brisbane, Australia

about the artist

The art of Eugene Carchesio, one of the leading contemporary artists working in Australia today, finds weight in lightness, richness in simplicity, and eternity in the quotidian. Using his favored media of watercolor and pencil, he has produced a poetic collection of intimately rendered and delicately executed works. Subjects that take center stage on each sheet become oblique diary pages that document phases of his life: there might be shapes, such as the cone, the sphere, the cube, and others; or there might be objects, such as leaves, birds, skulls, or even boxers. His aesthetic is indelibly shaped by his deep love for and fervent interest in music, mathematics, and, more specifically, geometry. The artist offers moments of respite, windows of reverie, and passages returning to the fundamental in his pictures. Carchesio has exhibited widely in Australia and New Zealand; major surveys of his work include Someone’s Universe: The Art of Eugene Carchesio, at the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, and everything takes time takes everything at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane. The artist represented Australia in the 10th Indian Triennale of Art held in New Delhi, India, in 2001, and was invited to participated in the 4th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, Australia, in 2003. International group exhibitions in which his work has been included have been staged at venues such as the Cartier Foundation in Paris, France; the Hallwalls Contemporary Art Centre in New York, USA; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea; and City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand. 

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2010GROUP Roundabout, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand

2009SOLO Someone’s Universe: The Art of Eugene Carchesio, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

2008GROUP Under the Influence: Art & Music, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia

2006SOLO everything takes time takes everything, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

2004GROUP Contemporary Queensland Sculpture, Museum of Brisbane, Australia

GROUP Heavenly Creatures, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia

2003GROUP Asia Pacific Triennial Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

2002SOLO Heliocentricities, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia

GROUP Contemporary Drawing, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Centre, New York, USA

2001GROUP Phenomena, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

SOLO On Contemporary Silence, Artspace, Sydney; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

SOLO 10th Indian Triennale of Art (Australian Pavilion), New Delhi, India

SOLO Lift Project, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

Artbank, Sydney, Australia

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia

Brisbane City Council, Brisbane, Australia

Bundanon Trust, West Cambewarra, Australia

Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand

Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, New Zealand

Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Parliament House, Canberra, Australia

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Australia

Queensland Art Gallery-Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia

Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand