Continuing the Artist's Choice series of exhibitions, Brisbane-based artist Michael Zavros was invited to work with the Gallery's Collection. Taking his own seductive, realist painting — Unicorn in the anticamera 2008 — as his point of departure, Zavros has cast contemporary beauty, decadence and ego in terms of possessions.
Works in a variety of media have been reimagined as the domestic trappings of an opulent designer lifestyle, representing a distinctive and successful character.
Photo credit: Michael Zavros, Australia b.1974 | Unicorn in the anticamera 2008 | Oil on board | Purchased 2009. The Queensland Government's Gallery of Modern Art Acquisitions Fund | Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | © The artist
The Gallery gratefully acknowledges the Queensland Museum for the loan of several works in this exhibition.
Link credit: http://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current/artists_choice_michael_zavros