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Nathan Babet
Wandergesellen, Waldmann (man of the woods and principles of forest economics)
February 7 – February 18
COFA Bachelor of Fine Arts & Master if Fine Arts graduate Nathan Babet will exhibit alongside Alexander Poulet at the Eastern Bloc Gallery.
The uncanny has been traced to the ‘residual’ of animistic origins in the development of primitive peoples. Heidegger furthers this association by conceding that the origin of feeling “not at home” must derive from a primeval phenomenon.
These photographs sit as a prelude to an exhibition of a larger body of work at Tin Sheds Gallery in April this year. Enacting the traditional guild of ‘Wandergesellen’ (Travelling Journeymen) as an itinerant ‘Zimmerman’ (Carpenter) on ‘walk-about’ (auf der Walz), I intend to embark on a journey through regional Australia. This journey references the Australian folklore of the ‘swagman’ in association with Germanic mythology. The gesture of embodying facets of this guild acts as a reference point! between landscape, the body and my own genealogy, which traces my Gre at Gradfather’s profession as ‘district forester’ of the region Červená Voda (Red Water) – Czech Republic.
Opening: Tues, Feb 7, 6-8pm
When: Feb 7- 18, 2012
Where: Eastern Bloc Gallery
138 Evans Street, Rozelle, NSW, 2039
Hours: Thurs to Sat, 11am – 5pm
Tel: (02) 9555 8816
