Songs of Australia / volume 18 / a new valley of tears
Artist
Danko, Aleks
Production date
2008
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Object Detail
Title
Songs of Australia / volume 18 / a new valley of tears
Production date
2008
Medium
digital print on paper with card, acrylic sheets, and wire binding
Measurements
29.8 x 22.0 x 1.5 cm
Object type
Edition
6/50
Secondary production details
Publisher: Aleks Danko (b.1950)
Interpretive text
Born in Adelaide in 1950 to Ukrainian émigré parents, Danko career began in his parents’ suburban garage. In 1971, after studying at the South Australian School of Art, he moved to Sydney where he became a central figure in city’s conceptual art movement. The artist has consistently drawn upon his personal history in his artworks. The suburbia of his youth with its banal architectural forms and seemingly anti-intellectual ethos remains a consistent presence in his work, as is his family’s dark humour. He has also worked with a series of repetitive motifs, the most notable being a simple house structure, in order to re-orientate ideas from his own creative history into the present.
Credit line
Mackay Regional Council Art Collection Purchased 2009
Accession number
2009.6