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Romance Bloody Romance, Drawings


SEPT 28 – OCT 15, 2016.  RUBICON ARI, 309 QUEENSBURY ST, MELBOURNE VICTORIA


Bye By Design, 2016 pencil on paper, 32.5 x 32.5cm* East St Deco, 2016 pencil on paper, 32.5 x 32.5cm Elevating Action, 2016 pencil on paper, 32.5 x 32.5cm* Fabrication, 2016 pencil on paper, 32.5 x 32.5cm Fed Up with the Good Face, 2016 pencil on paper, 32.5 x 32.5cm* Four Walls, 2016 pencil on paper, 32.5 x 32.5cm* Geometric Conventions, 2016 pencil on paper, 32.5 x 32.5cm* Growth Chart, 2016 pencil on paper, 32.5 x 32.5cm* Hedgerow, 2016 pencil on paper, 32.5 x 32.5cm* Quiet Times, 2016 pencil on paper, 32.5 x 32.5cm* And If You Don’t Dance, 2016 pencil on paper, 32.5 x 32.5cm Substandard Division, 2016 pencil on paper, 32.5 x 32.5cm* Rhymes with Hydrant, 2016 pencil on paper, 32.5 x 32.5

Following an exhibition of new paintings presented at Kings Artist Run in August, Darren Munce’s examination into the cognitive functions of habituation and apperception continues in Romance Bloody Romance, The Drawings. After over 10 years of living in the same house, a move to an unfamiliar Melbourne suburb creates a heightened sense of awareness. these works on paper investigate responses to the aesthetics of unknown surroundings; in seeing things for the first time, in the psychology of the new moment. detached from the world of objects and filled with analogies, rhythms and metaphors, this autobiography of abstract drawings is driven by the discoveries made over the passage of time.

See also ROMANCE BLOODY ROMANCE