Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran
Now Open: Ramesh - Undergod
Sullivan+Strumpf is thrilled to present Undergod: a new exhibition by Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran.
Ambitious in both materiality and scale, this exhibition imagines vibrant mythological beings who exist in planes between human and divine with the exuberance, cheek and depth the artist has become known for.
Now open in our Naarm/Melbourne gallery and online via the viewing room. We look forward to welcoming you for opening drinks on Friday 17 March, 6 – 8 PM, to celebrate this ecstatic exhibition!
Ramesh Mario Nithiyedran - Polymorphic Idols
"The title of this exhibition reflects my interest in polymorphism as a key narrative and aesthetic feature of vernacular sculptural practices across South Asia, particularly within Hindu mythologies. While I continue to reference imagery of Japanese Nio guardians as well as Hindu Dvarapala door gate guardians, my influences are diverse. A range of global sources that link to my cultural background, the language of religious iconographies and contemporary culture at large continue to inform my imagery."
— Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran
Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran for Vivid Sydney
Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran's monumental multi-limbed avatar 'Earth Deities' has been unveiled as a central work for Vivid Sydney, 2022.
Towering over a corner of Hickson Road Reserve, the contemporary sculpture is positioned between famous Sydney landmarks – the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge, the expressive grin of Luna Park’s entrance – and reflects upon Sydney as a global, multicultural city with plural histories.
‘The work extends core processes of my art practice – especially the transfiguration of earth, fire and water – while connecting ways destruction has been positioned as a generative force in various narratives of belief.’ – Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran
2022 Annual Summer Group Show
Our much anticipated annual Summer group show is now open. Featuring a curated selection of recent works by our artists, this exhibition is on now in the gallery and in our online Viewing Room.
Until January 29.
Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran: The Guardians
Following on from major sculptural commissions for The Art Gallery of New South Wales, HOTA and Dark MOFO, Ramesh has transformed the ground floor gallery into a carnival of mythological creatures sculpted in ceramic and dripping with glaze.
Produced in Ramesh’s signature neo-expressionist style, these figures extend upon his unconventional, irreverent approach to the medium. Varying in size, the works demonstrate the elaborate building and glazing strategies Ramesh has experimented with over the past year.
The [guardian] figures’ allusions to ideas around regeneration, renewal and even collapse are particularly pertinent in our current global climate defined by social, environmental and public health shifts/upheaval'.
— Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran
We’re really looking forward to welcoming you back to the gallery. In line with the NSW Public Health Order, all visitors 16 years and over will be required to present proof of full vaccination. On arrival, please sign-in with the QR code provided, wear a mask and maintain physical distancing. If you are unwell please stay home. To reduce crowding we invite you to book an appointment. This exhibition is also available online in our viewing room (email required).
Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran Limited-Edition Shirts
To accompany Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran's new exhibition Polymorphous Figures, Ramesh has designed two unique unisex shirts. These shirts include imagery featured on specific recent paintings on both sides.
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TAIPEI DANGDAI
Nangang Exhibition Centre, Taipei
Booth E-01
17 – 19 January
Sullivan+Strumpf is delighted to attend the second annual Taipei Dangdai international art fair this week to present works by Australian ceramicist Kirsten Coelho, multidisciplinary Australian artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Indonesian-based artist and industrial printmaker Irfan Hendrian, Singapore-based mixed media artist Kanchana Gupta, Australian multidisciplinary artist Alex Seton and Australian sculptor Sam Jinks.
Taipei Dangdai brings together a selection of the world’s leading galleries and artists, selected by a committee of international gallerists, alongside influential thinkers from a wide range of disciplines, including archaeology, art history and technology.
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RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN
SPECTROSYNTHESIS II
Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Bangkok, Thailand
23 November 2019 – 1 March 2020
The Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) and Sunpride Foundation presents SPECTROSYNTHESIS II – Exposure of Tolerance: LGBTQ in Southeast Asia.
Opening to the public at the BACC on November 23, the exhibition will be the largest-ever survey of regional contemporary art that explores lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer creative history in Southeast Asia and beyond. This is the second stop of Sunpride Foundation’s touring exhibition following the acclaimed SPECTROSYNTHESIS – Asian LGBTQ Issues and Art Now at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei in Taiwan in 2017.
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SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY 2019
AT THE BOOTH
SULLIVAN+STRUMPF ARTIST TALKS
Saturday 14 September
12.00PM – 12.30PM
Booth E20, Sydney Contemporary
Join us for at our booth on Saturday to hear artists Karen Black, Gregory Hodge, Michael Lindeman, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Sanné Mestrom, Alex Seton, and Darren Sylvester discuss their works.
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Booth E20
12 – 15 September
Opening Night: Thursday, 12 September 2019
Visit us at Booth E20 to see a diverse range of works by 17 Australian and international artists from our Sydney and Singapore galleries, including:
Tony Albert | Glenn Barkley | Karen Black | Kirsten Coelho | Ry David Bradley | Maria Fernanda Cardoso | Gregory Hodge | Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran | Sam Leach | Richard Lewer | Michael Lindeman | Sanné Mestrom | Alex Seton | Jeremy Sharma | Tim Silver | Darren Sylvester | Yang Yongliang
Large-scale works by Gregory Hodge, Michael Lindeman and Alex Seton will also be featured in Installation Contemporary throughout the fair; Tony Albert will deliver his first performance piece in Sydney with Confessions as part of Performance Contemporary on opening night; and many of our artists will be speaking as part of Talks Contemporary.
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Sullivan+Strumpf presents Brisbane Brief
a pop-up exhibition in Brisbane
14–25 August
Festival House, 381 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
Sullivan+Strumpf invites you to Brisbane Brief – a new pop-up exhibition at Festival House, Fortitude Valley.
Showing over 10 days, Brisbane Brief presents a selection of new and recent works by celebrated Brisbane artists Tony Albert, Karen Blackand Lindy Lee, as well as some of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, including Gregory Hodge, Alex Seton, Joanna Lamb, eX de Medici, Hiromi Tango, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Glenn Barkley, Sam Leach and Dane Lovett. As well as international artists Gonkar Gyatso and Eko Nugroho.
Opening Hours
10am–5pm / Tuesday – Saturday
12pm–4pm / Sunday
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POOR IMAGINATION
Exhibition Tour with Rafi Abdullah
Sullivan+Strumpf | Singapore
Sunday, 25 August 2019, 3pm
The artists and curator will be sharing about the works in the exhibition and will touch on themes that surround the premise of the exhibition such as the conditions and environments of image distribution, images as signifiers, and the agency of the ‘poor image’.
ANNOUNCEMENT
POOR IMAGINATION
Sullivan+Strumpf | Singapore
Until 1 September 2019
In a bit of bittersweet news, we'd like to announce that Poor Imagination showing at our Singapore gallery will now be closing one week early, on Sunday, 1 September 2019.
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POOR IMAGINATION
Sullivan+Strumpf | Singapore
Until 8 September 2019
Group exhibition curated by Rafi Abdullah, featuring the work of Stephanie Comilang, Fyerool Darma, Agan Harahap, Takuji Kogo, Tristan Lim, Michael Lindeman and Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran
Poor Imagination borrows its title from artist and writer Hito Steyerl's term: the 'poor image'. The 'poor image' is characterised as having an atrocious quality which deteriorates as it is distributed, an image readily and easily accessible. It is dormant debris in the landscape of excessive image production. Comprised of ceramics, paintings, prints and new-media works, the exhibition features seven artists whose work - whether overtly or covertly - employ the 'poor image' or embody its characteristics. The exhibition is an allusion to the autonomy and agency that the 'poor image' offers, mediating the plausible imaginations that they propose.
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POOR IMAGINATION
Sullivan+Strumpf | Singapore
27 July - 8 September 2019
Group exhibition curated by Rafi Abdullah, featuring the work of Stephanie Comilang, Fyerool Darma, Agan Harahap, Takuji Kogo, Tristan Lim, Michael Lindeman and Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran
Poor Imagination borrows its title from artist and writer Hito Steyerl's term: the 'poor image'. The 'poor image' is characterised as having an atrocious quality which deteriorates as it is distributed, an image readily and easily accessible. It is dormant debris in the landscape of excessive image production. Comprised of ceramics, paintings, prints and new-media works, the exhibition features seven artists whose work - whether overtly or covertly - employ the 'poor image' or embody its characteristics. The exhibition is an allusion to the autonomy and agency that the 'poor image' offers, mediating the plausible imaginations that they propose.
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FUTURE PAST
Sullivan+Strumpf | Sydney
until 6 July 2019
Including: Gonkar Gyatso, FX Harsono, Irfan Hendrian, Latthapon Korkiatarkul, KRACK STUDIO, Lindy Lee, Dawn Ng, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Eko Nugroho, Albert Jonathan Setyawan, Jeremy Sharma, Jakkai Siributr, Adeela Suleman and Yang Yongliang
INVITATION
FUTURE PAST: TRADITION AND TRANSGRESSION IN CONTEMPORARY ART IN ASIA
Sullivan+Strumpf | Sydney
1 June - 6 July 2019
Featuring the works of Gonkar Gyatso, FX Harsono, Irfan Hendrian, Latthapon Korkiatarkul, Lindy Lee, Dawn Ng, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Eko Nugroho, Albert Yonathan Setyawan, Jeremy Sharma, Jakkai Siributr, KRACK STUDIO, Adeela Suleman and Yang Yongliang
Future Past: Tradition and Transgression in Contemporary Art in Asia, brings together fourteen contemporary artists working across East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific to consider the ways in which current art practices in the region interface with and extend beyond the limits of historically determined artistic and cultural boundaries, where they transgress and how these collisions of past and present might inform one another to create an art of the future.
CONGRATULATIONS
ARCHIBALD & SIR JOHN SULMAN PRIZE FINALISTS
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
11 May - 8 September 2019
Congratulations to Karen Black, Richard Lewer, Dane Lovett and Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, who are finalists in the Archibald and Sulman Prizes 2019 - Australia's most prestigious portrait and subject prizes!
ANNOUNCEMENT
RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN
CREATOR
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
30 March - 12 May 2019
Opening Saturday, 30 March, 2pm
Curated by Luke Letourneau and Jenny Cheeseman with an insightful catalogue by Daniel Browning, Creator presents an extensive body of Nithiyendran's recent work including new pieces especially commissioned by Casula Powerhouse alongside loans from public and private collections. Creator combines references to Hindu temple iconography, museum displays and colonial public monuments to form a dialogue around the framing of Asian faith-based objects in museum practices.
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ART BASEL HONG KONG 2019
29 - 31 March 2019
Hong Kong Exhibition & Convention Centre, Hong Kong, China
Galleries Section Booth 3C23
Encounters Section Booth EN12
Sullivan+Strumpf is delighted to participate in Art Basel Hong Kong 2019 with a presentation of works by artists with diverse practices in both two and three dimensions, including Tony Albert (Booth EN12 Encounters Section), Sydney Ball, Lindy Lee, Sam Leach, I Nyoman Masriadi, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Alex Seton and Yang Yongliang.
The presentation includes some of the region's most exciting artists including a large-format painting by Indonesian-based I Nyoman Masriadi (b.1973, Gianyar, Bali). Masriadi’s practice combines superhuman figures with Indonesian cultural history, offering a biting social commentary on contemporary life and global pop culture. Created especially for ABHK 2019, Sri Lankan-born, Sydney-based artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran (b.1988, Colombo, Sri-Lanka) will show, Bi-Head, a polychrome and polished-bronze head, exploring the politics of sex, the monument, and pointing to the new possibilities to be found in gender fluid realms. Alex Seton (b.1977, Sydney, Australia) will present a pair of large-scale bronze and marble totems from his ‘Cargo’ series, a new body of work in which the artist depicts highly compressed bales of clothing, of the kind found in the second-hand clothes industry. Seton’s bronze and marble obelisks evoke the mesh of needs, concerns, environments and economies through which we are all connected. This sense of connectivity is also present inthe work of Lindy Lee (b.1954, Brisbane,Australia) in which she invokes a sense of deep time. Lee will present, Unnameable 2017, a large-scale bronze‘Fire Stone’, and works on paper pierced and singed by flame. As each scorched mark stands for an individual moment, so too, the large bronze Fire Stone – borne of the marriage of metal and spontaneous eruptions – speaks to the infinite curve of time inherent to all life.Time, in an evolutionary sense, is also examined in Sam Leach’s finely executed oil paintings of animals and spacesuits. Leach (b. 1973 Adelaide, Australia) draws a connection between the legacy of the enlightenment found in the philosophy of Russian Cosmists and the distinctive styles of spacesuits, helmets and associated technology. Leach connects the constructed landscapes of the 17th and 18th century, the utopian ideals of 20th century formalist abstraction and the future implied by space exploration. Yang Yongliang (b.1980, Shanghai, China) will present video and photographic works exploiting a connection between traditional Chinese painting and the contemporary, implementing ancient oriental aesthetics and literati beliefs with modern language and digital techniques. Yongliang’s monochrome landscapes provide a counterpoint to a special presentation of works from the estate of the late Sydney Ball (1933-2017). Arguably Australia’s greatest colourist, Ball’s Infinexseries in automotive enamel on aluminium, comprises rigid geometric forms articulated in fields of contrasting colour – crisply chromatic formal assemblages of individual but related planes of colour which appear as if poised mid-motion.
INVITATION
ANNUAL SUMMER GROUP SHOW
Sullivan+Strumpf | Sydney
8 - 16 February 2019
Opening Friday, 8 February 2019, 6 - 8pm
To celebrate the first exhibition of our exciting 2019 program, join for the S+S Sydney Annual Summer Group Show next Friday, 8th February from 6pm.
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RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN
Idols
Perth Festival, Fremantle Arts Centre
7 February - 31 March 2019
As part of the 2019 Perth Festival, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran is included in Idols at the Fremantle Arts Centre, an exhibition which pairs his work with that of Renee So. Idolatry and mythological archetypes are reimagined in Idols allowing both artists to challenge and overturn old perspectives on gendered power structures and the aesthetics of spiritualities.
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TAIPEI DANGDAI
Booth A06
Taipei Nangang Exhibition Centre
No. 1, Jingmao 2nd Road, Nangang District, Taipei City, Taiwan
18 - 20 January 2019
VIP Preview & Vernissage: Thursday, 17 January 2019
Public Fair Dates: Friday - Sunday, 18 - 20 January 2019
Sullivan+Strumpf is delighted to participate in the inaugural Taipei Dangdai this January, with works by Sydney Ball, Sam Leach, Sam Jinks, Dawn Ng and Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran.
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TAIPEI DANGDAI
Booth A06
Taipei Nangang Exhibition Centre
Taipei City, Taiwan
18 - 20 January 2019
Featuring works by Sydney Ball, Sam Jinks, Sam Leach, Dawn Ng and Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran.
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RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN
Idols
Perth Festival, Fremantle Arts Centre
7 February - 24 March 2019
For the 2019 Perth festival, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran and Renee So will present a joint exhibition which reimagines idolatry and mythological archetypes. Working primarily in figurative ceramics, both artists aim to challenge and overturn old perspectives on gender, gendered power structures and the aesthetics of spiritualities.
NOW SHOWING
RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN
South/East Interference Volume 2
Bega Valley Regional Gallery
15 December 2018 - 9 February 2019
The second edition of South/East Interference brings together a diverse group of mid-career artists working around themes of personal identity and redefining and re-imagining cultural heritage and storytelling.
CLOSING TOMORROW
RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN
[email protected] VOLUME II
Sullivan+Strumpf | Singapore
Until Saturday, 10 November 2018
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Craftivism, Dissident Objects & Subversive Forms
Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton
24 November 2018 - 17 February 2019
Craftivism, Dissident Objects & Subversive Forms presents the work of 18 contemporary Australian artists who utilise craft based materialities with a political intent/ Broadening our understanding of craft-making traditions, the artists in this exhibition subvert and extend these forms into the realm of activism and social change, reflecting on the world in which we live.
OPENING TOMORROW
RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN
[email protected] Volume II
Sullivan+Strumpf | Singapore
13 October - 10 November 2018
Opening tomorrow, Saturday 13 October, 5 - 7pm
[email protected] Volume II is an expansion of the bold proclamations of Nithiyendran's institutional shows which have since evoled into a self-reflexive investigation of relationships and power, holding a mirror to the world at odds. Traces of Nithiyendran's personality are embedded, as sartorial flamboyance, but also as self-mockery. Self-portraiture, according to the artist, is a theme that runs through all his work, toeing the line between narcissism and self-parody. Playing along with the idea of the artist as a brand in today's age of screen culture, Nithiyendran's laughter is truly contagious.
COMING UP
Craftivism. Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms
Shepparton Art Museum
24 November 2018 - 17 February 2019
Featuring: Karen Black, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Hiromi Tango and Jemima Wyman
Craftivism presents the work of 18 contemporary Australian artists who utilise craft-based materials with a political intent. Broadening our understanding of craft-making traditions, the artists in this exhibition subvert and extend these forms into the realm of activism and social change, reflecting on the world in which we live. Drawing on a long historical lineage, the exhibition enables viewers to rethink craft in a new light.
INVITATION
RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN
[email protected] Volume II
Sullivan+Stumpf | Singapore
13 October - 10 November 2018
Opening on Saturday, 13 October, 5-7pm
Sri Lankan-born Sydney-based artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran presents [email protected] Volume II, a solo exhibition of iconoclastic clay sculptures that explores gender, popular culture, exoticism and outsider aesthetics. Within the last year, Nithiyendran's irreverently grotesque figures have been presented across Asia to critical acclaim.
[email protected] Volume II is an expansion of the bold proclamations of Nithiyendran's institutional shows which have since evolved into a self-reflexive investigation of relationships and power, holding a mirror to the world at odds. Traces of Nithiyendran's personality are embedded, as sartorial flamboyance, but also as self-mockery. Self-portraiture, according to the artist, is a theme that runs through all his work, toeing the line between narcissism and self-parody. Playing along with the idea of the artist as a brand in today's age of screen culture, Nithiyendran's laughter is truly contagious.
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SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY
Carriageworks
13 - 16 September 2018
Booth E18 + IC09 for Glenn Barkley
Sullivan+Strumpf is delighted to participate in Sydney Contemporary 2018 (Booth E18) with a presentation of new and recent works by Tony Albert, Sydney Ball, Glenn Barkley, Karen Black, Barbara Cleveland, Sam Leach, Lindy Lee, eX de Medici, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Dawn Ng, Baden Pailthorpe, Alex Seton, Grant Stevens and Angela Tiatia.
A highlight of the presentation is Sydney Ball's Chromix Lumina 14, a large-scale work from the artist's Infinex series, his final and never-before-seen body of work. Realised in automotive enamel on aluminium, a method of manufacturing the artist devised out of physical necessity at the age of 81, Chromix Lumina 14 represents the pinnacle of Ball's lifeling research into the relationship between form, colour and light.
In addition, no fewer than six S+S artists have been invited to participate in the curated sections of the fair. Angela Tiatia is included in Video Contemporary, curated by Kelly Gellatly; Karen Black has collaborated with Handpicked Wines to create an immersive-art-experience-cum-bar; Glenn Barkley will create a cabinet of curiosities filled with new vessel forms and collages; while Lindy Lee, Alex Seton and Tim Silver will present solo presentations for Installation Contemporary, curated by Nina Miall.
Panel Discussion:
The Waves: Gender, Representation, and the Market Saturday, 15 September 2018, 10am at S+S Sydney, 799 Elizabeth Street, Zetland. Featuring Barbara Cleveland (artist collective), Christine Dean (artist), Angela Tiatia (artist), Julie Ewington (curator, writer & broadcaster) and Ursula Sullivan (co-director of S+S, Sydney & Singapore) on the panel, moderated by Kate Britton (curator).
Artist Talks:
Saturday, 15 September 2018, 12.30pm at the fair, starting at Booth IC09 and following a series of other talks at Booth E18.
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SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY
Carriageworks
13 - 16 September 2018
Booth E18
Sullivan+Strumpf are delighted to participate in Sydney Contemporary 2018 with a presentation including Tony Albert, Sydney Ball, Glenn Barkley, Sam Leach, Lindy Lee, eX de Medici, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Dawn Ng, and Alex Seton. In addition, Barbara Cleveland, Baden Pailthorpe, Grant Stevens and Angela Tiatia are included in Video Contemporary, while Glenn Barkley, Lindy Lee, Alex Seton and Time Silver will present solo presentations for Installation Contemporary. We look forward to welcoming you to booth E18.
COMING UP
RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN
[email protected] VOLUME II
Sullivan+Strumpf | Singapore
6 October - 3 November 2018
Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran creates rough-edged new-age idols that are at once enticing and disquieting, exploring politics of sex, the monument, gender and organised religion. Ahead of his first solo exhibition at S+S Singapore this October, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran will be showing work with S+S at this year's Sydney Contemporary (Booth E18) and is also included in the India Ceramics Triennial, which opens in Jaipur today. 2018 has been a successful year for Nithiyendran: he was awarded the Melbourne Art Fair Young Artist Award in June and presented major solo exhibitions at both Dhaka Art Summit in India and at Art Basel Hong Kong's Encounters section. Nithiyendran has had a busy last few years with numerous major public gallery exhibitions since 2015.
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RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN
India Ceramics Triennial
Jaipur, India
31 August - 18 November 2018
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SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY
Carriageworks
13 - 16 September 2018
Sullivan+Strumpf will present new work by Tony Albert, Sydney Ball, Glenn Barkley, Karen Black, Sam Leach, eX de Medici, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Dawn Ng and Alex Seton, at Booth E18.
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RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN
ABC Radio National Interview
Ahead of his solo exhibition, [email protected] Volume II, which is slated to open at S+S Singapore on 17 November, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran spoke to ABC Radio National's Daniel Browning about religion, gender, colonialism and the phallus.
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RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN
We are all connected to Campbelltown one way or another
Campbelltown Arts Centre
Opening 11 August 2018
We are all connected to Campbelltown one way or another, is an exhibition that celebrates this 30 year milestone, presenting new commissions that consider the history, place, people and presence of Campbelltown through the notion of gift giving and exchange.
CONGRATULATIONS
Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2018
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Until 9 September 2018
Congratulations to our artists who are finalists in this year's prizes:
Angela Tiatia in the Archibald Prize
Karen Black, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran and Gregory Hodge in the Sir John Sulman Prize
Hiromi Tango in the Wynne Prize
ANNOUNCEMENT
SULLIVAN+STRUMPF at ART BASEL HONG KONG
29 - 31 MARCH 2018
GALLERIES SECTION
BOOTH 3C16
Featuring Yang Yongliang | Alex Seton | Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran | Darren Sylvester | Lindy Lee | Gregory Hodge
Sullivan+Strumpf is delighted to participate in Art Basel Hong Kong 2018 with a presentation of works by Yang Yongliang, Alex Seton, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran (Encounters Booth 3E10) Darren Sylvester, Lindy Lee and Gregory Hodge. Bringing together six artists with diverse practices in both two and three dimensions as well as new media, the presentation takes the pulse of contemporary visual art practice in the region.
Sullivan+Strumpf's presentation includes some of the region's most exciting artists and intriguing objects, including Alex Seton's, Clothing Bale 02 sculpted in Australian Wombeyan marble, part of a new series in which Seton draws on the second-hand clothing industry. Darren Sylvester's science-fiction-inspired oversize light jet print, Out of Life, features a model dressed in a 1970s mock space suit; the martian setting resonating with Lindy Lee's Horizons growing beyond the visible, a large-scale circular flung bronze sculpture. The virtual world of Yang Yongliang's VR work, Eternal Landscape, is influenced by ancient Chinese Song Dynasty paintings; the work's sense of a future-past providing a counterpoint to Gregory Hodge's acrylic paintings inspired by quotidian materials like carpet samples, but also the geology of the moon. Art Basel Hong Kong opens to the public on 29 March and continues until 31 March, we look forward to welcoming you to our presentation at booth 3C16.
Address:
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
1 Harbour Road
Wan Chai
Hong Kong, China
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RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN
ENCOUNTERS SECTION
CURATED BY ALEXIE GLASS-KANTOR
BOOTH 3E10
For Art Basel Hong Kong 'Encounters' section curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran will present two monumental works which continue his exploration of the politics of sex, the monument, gender and religion. Nithiyendran's increasingly experimental practice foregrounds an intensive investigation of ceramic technique alongside an increasingly apparent conceptual underpinning. In particular, the potential of scale has been explored in monumental ceramic installations such as Mud Men (National Gallery of Australia, 2017). Recent presentations at Dhaka Art Summit, 2018; The National, Sydney, 2017; Kuandu Biennale, Taiwan, 2016; Adelaide Biennial, 2016; and the Ian Potter Museum in Melbourne, have firmly established Nithiyendran as the region’s most exciting emerging artist.
Address:
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
1 Harbour Road
Wan Chai
Hong Kong, China
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RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN
Dhaka Art Summit
Featured highlight on The Art Newspaper
Dispatch from Dhaka: five highlights from the fourth Art Summit
by Gareth Harris
"A series of garish, in-your-face idols are causing a stir at the Dhaka Art Summit (DAS). The totemic mixed-media statues, by the Sri Lankan-born artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, are described on the wall text as 21st-century “deities in drag” but Nithiyendran points out that the works are multivalent, referencing numerous sources including Hinduism, a religion where “multi-gender idols are a paradigm”, he says (the internet, pornography and fashion are his other sources)."
Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran's Idols was commisioned and produced by Artspace, Sydney and the Samdani Art Foundation for the Dhaka Art Summit 2018. The project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australian Council for the Arts, its funding and advisory body, and supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Culural Diplomacy Grants Program of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
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2018 GROUP SHOW
10 - 24 February 2018
Opening tomorrow, 3 - 5pm
Sullivan+Strumpf | Sydney
Join us for the annual S+S Group Show in Sydney, offering a glimpse of our forthcoming 2018 exhibition programme and advance previews of exciting new works by S+S artists.
COMING UP
RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN in ENCOUNTERS
29 - 30 MARCH 2018
Art Basel Hong Kong 2018
Curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor
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Artist Talks
Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran and Baden Pailthorpe present talks about their exhibitions at Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney
Saturday, 28 October 2017, 2pm
COMING UP
RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN
[email protected]
Sullivan+Strumpf | Sydney
Opens this Saturday, 21 October
6 - 8pm
COMING UP
SULLIVAN+STRUMPF MELBOURNE POP-UP
44 Glasshouse Road, Collingwood
24 - 26 August | Opening Hours 12-5pm
Opens 24 August, 6pm
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RICHARD LEWER + RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN + JEMIMA WYMAN
The National: New Australia Art
Carriage works, Sydney
Until 25 June
Presenting the latest ideas and forms in contemporary Australian art, curated across three of Sydney's premier cultural institutions.
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> VIEW ARTISTS PAGES
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RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN
In the Beginning
Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne
Until 26 Feb 2017
In The Beginning by Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran pushes the symbolic and material qualities of clay to produce iconoclastic sculptures that break the rules of the medium. Combining Hindu and Christian symbolism with the subversive imagery of internet memes, his wildly misshapen characters act as avatars through which to explore gender and eroticism, religion and popular culture, exoticism and outsider aesthetics.
> MORE INFORMATION
> VIEW ARTIST PAGE
ATTEND
RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN
Talking at MPavilion, Melbourne
In Conversation with Santilla Chingaipe
6 Feb, 615 PM
Queen Victoria Gardens, St Kilda Rd
Melbourne
Join Ramesh and award winning journalist Santilla Chingaipe in conversation as they explore the possibilities of his latest body of work on show at The University of Melbourne's Ian Potter Museum of Art, In the Beginning.
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> ARTIST PAGE
COMING UP
2017
Group Exhibition
4 - 21 Feb
Opens 4 Feb | 3-5 pm
Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney
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COMING UP
RICHARD LEWER + RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN + JEMIMA WYMAN
The National: New Australian Art 2017
Opening on 30 March
Sydney's premier cultural institutions have announced artists to be included in The National, including Sullivan+Strumpf artists Richard Lewer, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran and Jemima Wyman. Opening on 30 March 2017 and running simultaneously as a unified exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), The National 2017: New Australian Art is the first edition of a six-year initiative, presented in 2017, 2019 and 2021, exploring the latest ideas and forms in contemporary Australian art.
COMING UP
RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN
In the Beginning
Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne
22 November - 26 February 2017
Nithiyendran's exhibition at the Potter represents an exciting development for the artist. Across an entire floor of the museum, vibrant colour and exuberant wall drawings contribute to an immersive environment within which the artist's idiosyncratic ceramic figures sit alongside a monumental unfired clay sculpture, a new bronze work, and a range of objects selected from the University of Melbourne's Cultural Collections, including ancient Greek pottery, Indian religious art and animal specimens from the Teigs Museum of Zoology.
ON VIEW NOW
RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN
Kuandu Biennale: Slaying Monsters
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts
1 Hsieh-Yuan Road, Peitou
Taipei 112, Taiwan R.O.C
September 30 - December 11, 2016
Artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran and curator Glenn Barkley have represented Australia at the 2016 Kuandu Biennale in Taipei. The biennale adopts a format where 10 curators, from 10 countries across the region each curate an artist/collective into the biennale.
Following presentations at the 2016 Adelaide Biennale and a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia, the Kuandu Biennale provides Nithiyendran with an international opportunity to create his first ephemeral installation, titled, 'Archipelago of Ramesh'.
ON VIEW NOW
RAMESH MARIO NITHIYENDRAN
Kuandu Biennale: Slaying Monsters
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts
1 Hsieh-Yuan Road, Peitou
Taipei 112, Taiwan R.O.C
September 30 - December 11, 2016
Artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran and curator Glenn Barkley have represented Australia at the 2016 Kuandu Biennale in Taipei. The biennale adopts a format where 10 curators, from 10 countries across the region each curate an artist/collective into the biennale.
Following presentations at the 2016 Adelaide Biennale and a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia, the Kuandu Biennale provides Nithiyendran with an international opportunity to create his first ephemeral installation, titled, 'Archipelago of Ramesh'.