Leg of Lamb blog 16 December 2010

The Leader 13 December 2010

The Age 11 December 2010

The Age 26 November 2010

Kulone 25 November 2010

Australian in front 25 November 2010

Three Thousand 24 November 2010

The Age 15 November 2010

Three Thousand

Broadsheet 27 October 2010

http://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/duppy-housing

Lauren Berkowitz on Art Nation

The Age 16 October 2010

The Age 13 October 2010

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/broadening-their-horizons-20101012-16hsg.html

The Age 6 October 2010

Dynamic Business

www.kogan.com.au/media/.../20101001_dynamic_business_young_guns.pdf

Three Thousand 30 September 2010

Broadsheet 29 September 2010

http://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/amber-wallis-i-fuck-mountains

artinfo.com.au 17 August 2010

http://www.artinfo.com.au/opinions/read/steven-asquith-storm-concepts

The Age 6 August 2010

Broadsheet 4 August 2010

http://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/steven-asquith-storm-concepts

Australian Art Collector Issue 53 July - September 2010

The Age 28 July 2010

superfuture supernews 24 July 2010

http://www.superfuture.com/supernews/?p=37815

Australian Art Collector July - September 2010

Discreet Objects catalogue & essay

Tom Polo 5 July 2010

http://tompoloart.blogspot.com/2010/07/territorial-pissings-at-utopian-slumps.html

La La Hi Prism 3 July 2010

http://lalahiprism.blogspot.com/2010/07/records-and-fluro.html

Melbourne Non Objective Project 2 July 2010

http://noproject.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/discreet-objects-utopian-slumps/

Broadsheet Winter, July/August 2010

The Age Saturday 19 June 2010

The Internetwork 16 June 2010

Amber Wallis home and studio visit

http://theinternetwork.com.au/#post/amber-wallis-dark-gully
http://theinternetwork.com.au/#post/dark-gully-studio

Triple R what's on

http://www.rrr.org.au/whats-going-on/arts-diary/

The Vine 9 June 2010

http://www.thevine.com.au/entertainment/art/vinyl-plus-paint-plus-neon20100609.aspx

The Art Life 7 June 2010

http://theartlife.com.au/?p=2692

Hot Spots Winter 2010

Hypebeast 24 May 2010

http://hypebeast.com/2010/05/misha-hollenbach-forewards-exhibition-recap/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hypebeast%2Ffeed+%28Hypebeast%29

Slamxhype 24 May 2010

http://slamxhype.com/art-design/misha-hollenbach-forewards-at-utopian-slumps/

Oliver Cloke 22 May 2010

http://www.olivercloke.com/tag/mischa-hollenbach

The Age Saturday 22 May 2010

Around the Galleries by Dan Rule

Broadsheet 20 May 2010

Dan Rule interview with Misha Hollenbach






















Full interview here:
http://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/studio-visit-misha-hollenbach

e-flux 14 May 2010

 

 http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/8122

AC Journal 13 May 2010

http://www.anacecilia.com.au/?p=1281

Three Thousand 13 May 2010

Misha Hollenbach opening


















http://www.threethousand.com.au/gallery/376/1/

Izrock 13 May 2010

http://www.izrock.com/blog/?p=1089

Three Thousand 13 May 2010

Beci Orpin 12 May 2010

http://www.beciorpin.com/blog/?p=1048

The Vine 12 May 2010

http://www.thevine.com.au/entertainment/art/forewards-with-misha-hollenbach20100512.aspx

Melbourne Muse May 11th 2012

The Blackmail 10 May 2010

http://www.theblackmail.com.au/blog/art/forewards/

Hypebeast 4 May 2010

http://hypebeast.com/2010/05/misha-hollenbach-forewards-exhibition/

Living Proof Magazine 4 May 2010

http://livingproofmag.com/2010/05/utopian-slumps-presents-misha-hollenbach-forewards/

Juxtapoz 4 May 2010

http://www.juxtapoz.com/21380-misha-hollenbach-of-perks-and-mini-has-an-exhibition-opening-next-week

ABC Arts 29th April 2010

Utopian Slumps reborn - ABC Interview with Melissa Loughnan

she sees red 18 April 2010

http://sheseesred.blogspot.com/2010/04/shows-shows-shows.html

Territorial Pissings opening - Thursday 15 April 2010

Photography by Jake Walker

Artlink Charlie Sofo review by Dunja Rmandic

Artlink » Vol 30 no 1, 2010

Charlie Sofo

Dunja Rmandic, Review

Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
5--19 December 2009

Recently I came across a pile of transaction records, tram tickets and receipts acquired by me during a period of change, confrontation, poetics, disparities, connection and disconnection; a time when hyper-analyses and heightened emotion dominated my walks, grocery shopping and the like. These traces - mementoes with precise times and amounts paid, neatly sorted into chronological order – formed a narrative that was authorised by the official stamp of the public network. Here was confirmation of my self in space-time, of what I was going through, felt and thought.

It was in this context that 'Facts', an exhibition of Charlie Sofo's latest work at Utopian Slumps – and the last show for its Collingwood phase – had an immediate resonance. Like me, Sofo seemed concerned with merging into a formalist syntax an experiential element that bordered on obsessive. Successfully eschewing the didacticism that underlies much contemporary art dealing with experience and event, where the object itself is no more significant than the entry ticket, Sofo’s work is imbued with a measured formalism informed by craft practices and a process of found and made in which the subject maintains its 'aura’.


At the entrance appears the artist’s incessant obsession with one phone number, manifested in various forms on different pieces of paper and wood. The workbench in the main space holds an intricate arrangement of thin bamboo sticks topped with tiny balls of medication foil, 'One Full Course of Antibiotics' (2009) accompanied by a Duchamp-style rack adorned with thick red rubber bands (found during walks) and a beautiful stump of white birch that supports a carefully balanced array of colourful paper balls. A set of neon light interiors cast in candle wax sits in front of a video of flickering neons in numerous locations. Accompanied by a drumbeat, each flicker becomes mesmerising: a hagiographic event in itself.

In 'One Full Course' there is a method as well as madness. Dutifully taking his prescribed dose, Sofo externalises the curing process into a tangible point of exchange between the viewer and the artist, between the gesture and its significance. The quiet and premeditated obsession of documenting such an ascetic event deeply resonated with my remembered desire to compile tram tickets and contextualise the fragmented remnants of experience into a set of deeper meanings.

In 'Bookmarks' a picnic table stands on its own, covered with torn pieces of paper found by the artist in library books, inscribed with page references, comments no doubt crucial to the main argument of an undergraduate essay, or simply left blank. Although the most didactic of the works, in it Sofo chooses carefully when to resort to the index and strike with affect. Seeing the remnants of a vast but by no means exhaustive collection of links to thought dotted throughout the repository of public knowledge, there is a dormant panic that the one thought so overpowering at the time of reading a text, warranting leaving a ‘mark’ to return to it, is lost forever. By removing the mark, Sofo writes himself into the script, coming so close to (and almost becoming) that space between the author and the reader.

The obsessive hoarding of ‘thoughts’ in this show seems symptomatic of Sofo’s methodologies. The artist’s 'facts' – the things done or performed, as the word’s initial definition would have it – materialise quietly, spawned by a ubiquitous drive to capture the ‘punctum’ latent in the details of the everyday. The superficiality that sometimes dominates such an exploration in contemporary art is here countered by the poetics of the object, by expanding the object both conceptually and formally, integrating a system of thought and experience into a system of craft gestures, and simultaneously sustaining our intrigue with the production as well as consumption of art.

While for some it may be a revelation of the minute and the poetic, for others Facts may serve as a confirmation of their own obsessions and attempts to hold on to any tangible evidence of remaining humanistic traces embedded in the way we order our world. The parameters of Sofo’s work extend beyond a simple affinity between the viewer and the process into a world that needs us to make it meaningful.

http://www.artlink.com.au/articles/3385/charlie-sofo/

Lost and Found Volume 4 Snapshot 5

http://www.wearelostandfound.com.au/publication/volume-4/snapshot-5/

Colour Factory 14 April 2010

http://colourfactory.com.au/news/2010/04/14/utopian-slumps-opens-its-new-art-gallery-space-in-melbourne-this-thursday-night/

Three Thousand 14 April 2010

The Heist 13 April 2010

http://www.theheist.com.au/?p=475

Rob McHaffie 10 April 2010

http://robmchaffie.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-slumps.html

Amber Wallis 9 April 2010

http://www.amberwallis.com/news/territorial-pissings-at-utopian-slumps

The Vine 29 March 2010

 

















http://www.thevine.com.au/art/articles/utopian-slumps-rises.aspx

The Vine March 29th 2010