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Eugene Carchesio is a Brisbane-based artist and musician
who has exhibited and performed since the early 1980s. His
art and music explore many interrelated ideas. Carchesio’s
practice uses modest means to explore the essence of
things and to suggest what is beyond physical nature.
His visual art consists of two major pursuits — drawings
and watercolours on paper, and small sculptural cardboard
constructions. He also mounts installations that usually take
elements of his more intimate works into a larger scale.
Carchesio explores colour, pattern, geometry, abstraction,
construction and sound within a loose framework that
primarily draws from twentieth-century art movements but
also ranges across cultures and eras.
‘Someone’s Universe’ included more than 300 works and
was organised for the Queensland Art Gallery by guest
curator Michael Snelling. Carchesio has been represented
in many major exhibitions around Australia and has been
selected for significant international projects including the
‘10th Indian Triennale of Contemporary Art’ in 2001 and
‘APT 2002: Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’.
This important survey exhibition
reflected the Gallery’s ongoing
commitment to collecting,
researching and presenting
the works of Queensland and
Australian artists.
Background: Guest curator Michael Snelling leads a tour
of ‘Someone’s Universe: The Art of Eugene Carchesio’.
Top: Tamsin Cull, Gallery Members Coordinator, leads a tour
for the Art in the Afternoon program for Young Members,
October 2008.
Photographs: Ray Fulton
Left: Eugene Carchesio / Mysteries of the self (detail) 2008 /
13 watercolours with pencil / Purchased 2008. Queensland
Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery