PRESENTATION HOUSE GALLERY FUNDRAISER AUCTION 2008 PREVIEW

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ATTILA RICHARD LUKACS & MICHAEL MORRIS
Thomas, Berlin 1992

Polaroid collage, 2008
Images: 31 cm x 40.5 cm
Unique
Image courtesy the artists

Estimate: $2,000

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Attila Richard Lukacs (b. 1962) is known predominantly for his explicit paintings of male skinheads, American military cadets and primates, which shocked and provoked a generation of painters and critics alike. Lukacs graduated from Emily Carr Institute in 1985 and moved to Berlin the following year. After ten years there, he relocated to New York in 1986, and now lives and works in Vancouver. He is represented by Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver.

With a career spanning over 40 years, Michael Morris has been a hugely influential figure to art in Canada. Morris’s works span from painting to conceptual art and performance. Throughout his artistic thought, the concept of art+life and the conflation of culture and lived experience has been a determining concept. Much of his work must be seen within the context. In 1968, he founded Image Bank with Vincent Trasov, an ongoing archive of correspondence and ephemera (now housed at the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery). In the early 70s, Morris was one of the founders of the Western Front artist society.

This collaborative collage of Polaroid SX-70 prints (a now obsolete photographic process), shot by Lukacs and arranged by Morris into grid-like formations, document models in poses used for paintings. This unique work conceptually draws from elements taken both artists’ oeuvres: Lukacs use of the male model, and Morris’s use of repeated forms and geometry. In the summer of 2008, Presentation House Gallery will debut the first public exhibition of Morris and Lukacs’ collaborative work.