CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Zac Koukoravas

Zac Koukoravas will be exhibiting as part of our POP-UP group exhibition Subterrain, on exhibition at Collins Place Gallery from 24 July – 5 August, as part of Melbourne Art Week. Please contact the gallery if you would like to be placed on the preview list for this exhibition.

Koukoravas’ large scale works, painted on multiple layers of glass and perspex, are characterized by his use of shadow and light, depth and space. Layering additional panels to create further complexity and depth, Zac imposed strict parameters on his creative process, finding infinite possibilities within set limitations. Conflicting elements of chance and structure, movement and stillness result in works full of peaks and plateaus, structure and composure - the outcome of gambling with the dichotomy of order and chaos.

Embedded within Zac’s abstract painting practice are a diverse range of pictorial traditions and cultural experiences including graffiti, architecture, the electronic music scene, political activism and our relation to natural and urban environments. Colour and form, appropriated and deconstructed from the surrounding environment, play a key role in the aesthetics of the work.

In his latest body of work, Blue Lines, Koukoravas draws inspiration from the overtones of the night – its light, colour and atmosphere. He is drawn to the abstraction that the blanket of darkness creates as it settles on our urban environments. “Darkness equalizes everything – clearing the landscape of detail and context; filling it with the unknown where buildings become rectangular shapes and trees become amorphous masses”, he explains.
Excerpt from Blue Lines catalogue essay by Owen Craven, Melbourne-based Senior Curator with UAP

Koukoravas was recently acquired by the Justin Art House Museum (JAHM) with his work featured in JAHM's 2018 group exhibition Black & White & Red All Over. In 2016 hewon the Best Artist Award at DenFair in and in 2013 was included in FLG’s annual emerging artist exhibition, Exploration, for which he was the joint winner of that years FLG Emerging Artist Award. He held his first successful solo exhibition with FLG in 2014, sold out at his fair debut at the 2014 Melbourne Art Fair, and has had three solo exhibitions with the gallery since. His works are held in private collections nationally.

CATALOGUE ESSAY

Blue Lines, by Owen Craven 2017
Supermodified, by Andrew Gaynor 2016

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Dream Sequence 2017
acrylic and enamel paint on acrylic
103cm x 103cm
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Nitro 2017
acrylic and enamel paint on acrylic
103cm x 103cm
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Out of the Blue 2017
acrylic and enamel on acrylic
153cm x 153cm
$8,500 AUD

Over Sentimental 2016
acrylic paint on glass and acrylic
103cm x 103cm
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Super Wow 2016
acrylic paint on glass and acrylic
104cm x 104cm
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Stark Reality 2016
acrylic paint on glass and acrylic
103cm x 103cm
(in artist's studio)
$4,500 AUD

Hyperloop 2016
acrylic paint on glass and acrylic
103cm x 103cm
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Self Assemblage 2016
acrylic and enamel paint on acrylic
103cm x 103cm
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LOCK 'N' POP 2016
Acrylic and enamel paint on glass, LED lights
108cm x 108cm , framed (in artist's studio)
$4,500 AUD

LOCK 2016
Acrylic & enamel paint on glass, LED lights, frameless
90cm x 90cm
$3,500 AUD

Modular Speculation 2016
acrylic paint on glass
88cm x 68cm (in artist's studio)
$2,500 AUD

Modular Suspension 2016
acrylic paint on glass and acrylic
88cm x 68cm
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Adjusted Sequence 2016
acrylic paint on glass with LED
88cm x 68cm (in artist's studio)
$3,000 AUD