DEREK KRECKLER (aus)
Derek Kreckler (Sídney, 1952)
Derek Kreckler es un artista visual y educador australiano. Ha enseñado en varias escuelas de arte australianas, incluyendo Sydney College of the Arts, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, UNSW College of Fine Arts y la Universidad de Wollongong.
“Las obras de Kreckler abarcan performance, cine, fotografía, instalación y video. Regularmente ha creado imágenes contundentes e insistentes que han estado en la vanguardia de la historia del arte australiano y que han comentado sobre el pasado, presente y futuro de nuestro país. Kreckler tiene una preocupación constante por los temas de las relaciones entre indígenas y colonos, la formación del nacionalismo y sus consecuencias ambientales. Su obra se describe a menudo como ‘inquietante’. Ya sea disfrutando del riesgo de la experimentación y el azar, o desafiando intencionalmente nuestras percepciones de país, identidad y ser, el trabajo de Kreckler coquetea con una incertidumbre que puede erizar la piel mientras nos abre los ojos a la magia de cómo se crean las imágenes y la maravilla de cuán poderoso puede ser el paisaje.” (p.20)
—Hannah Mathews: editora, curadora y directora del Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Australia.
“La práctica de Kreckler se ha manifestado en muchas formas y medios diferentes, y he tenido la suerte de ver gran parte de ella. Cada obra que ha hecho, sin importar cuán diferente y variada, ha manifestado un parpadeo entre una riqueza de efecto y referencia y una irreductibilidad del evento en su centro.”
—Richard Grayson, artista, curador y escritor actualmente radicado en Londres, Reino Unido (p.24)
Citado de Derek Kreckler: Accident and Process, editado por Hannah Matthews, Perimeter Editions, Melbourne e Idea Books, Ámsterdam, 2015.
Derek Kreckler (Sydney, 1952) Derek Kreckler is an Australian visual artist and educator. He has taught at various Australian art schools, including Sydney College of the Arts, the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, UNSW College of Fine Arts, and the University of Wollongong. “Kreckler’s works span performance, film, photography, installation, and video. He has regularly created tough, insistent imagery that has been at the critical edge of Australian art history and has provided commentary on our country’s past, present, and future. Kreckler has an ongoing preoccupation with themes of Indigenous/settler relations, the formation of nationalism, and their environmental consequences. His work is often described as ‘unsettling.’ Whether relishing the risk of experimentation and chance, or purposefully challenging our perceptions of country, identity, and self, Kreckler’s work flirts with an uncertainty that can prickle the neck while opening our eyes to the magic of how images are made and the wonder of how powerful the landscape can be.” (p.20) —Hannah Mathews: editor, curator, and Director, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Australia.
“Kreckler’s practice has manifested itself in many different forms and media, and I have been lucky enough to see much of it. Each work he has made, no matter how different and varied, has manifested a flicker between a richness of effect and reference and an irreducibility of event at its centre.” —Richard Grayson, artist, curator, and writer currently based in London, UK (p.24)
Quoted from Derek Kreckler: Accident and Process, edited by Hannah Matthews, Perimeter Editions, Melbourne, and Idea Books, Amsterdam, 2015.
