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Barking Mad - Or a Weird and Wonderful Perth Arts Scene
The Sunday Times Perth
21 June 2009
A giant sculpture that caused an uproar in Sydney is bound for Perth. Titled, The Good Boy, the Fibreglass figure has the head of a dog and the naked body of a man, complete with genitals.
At 1.8m high and 3.2m long, the sculpture and its generously proportioned appendage will be hard to miss when they go on display outside Subiaco gallery Linton and Kay Contemporary next month.
Artists Gillie and Marc Schattner, said their sculpture, part of the exhibition, The Dog in Us All, was never meant to offend .
"The point we're making and the whole idea, is to show the relationship between dog and man, Mr Schattner said. "it isn't trying to be offensive and, quite frankly, it's a penis. Half of the world's got one, you shouldn't be too upset about it. But they were and then we had to justify why put a penis on a man, and our answer to that was, well, if you took the penis off it would be a bit abnormal."
Within hours of the sculpture being displayed in the ritzy Sydney suburb of Woollahra, the council and police had received complaints....more
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I Love My Dog and My Dog Loves Me Exhibition at Richard Martin Gallery
MiSociety - Images: Bill Ranken
18 March 2009
Bryce Courtney reduced the packed room at the Richard Martin Gallery to tears as he related his own ‘doggie tale’ from when he was a boy growing up in an orphanage in South Africa.
As Gillie and Marc Schattner’s canine portraits bore witness from the walls eyes were dabbed as the dog loving patrons remembered their own loving four legged friends. On a day when almost every media outlet had cruised to the gallery to take shots of the huge four ‘armed’ sculpture out front it proved yet again that ‘man’s best friend’ is still very much exactly that. ... more
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Weird Dog Sculpture Furore
The Daily Telegraph
18 March 2009
A GIANT half-man, half-dog bending over naked while sipping a cappuccino is causing a stir among the latte set of Woolahra. The 1.8m-tall, 3m-long sculpture was only erected out front of the Richard Martin Gallery this morning but is already causing debate over whether full-frontal nudity is art - or twisted porn.
The sculpture was created by husband and wife pair Gillie and Marc Schattner for the gallery's exhibition "I Love My Dog And My Dog Loves Me", opening tonight. Gallery owner Richard Martin told the Daily Telegraph they expected there to be some strong reaction but it wasn't in the same league of the Bill Henson child porn scandal.
"I can't even join the dots between that and this, they are so far apart," he said. "It may raise a few eyebrows but I think overall the intent is wit and humour. Ideally people are open minded but some people have preconceived ideas about what is nudity and what is offensive." ... more
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Dogman gives paws for thought
Daily Telegraph
18 March 2009
Across the road from Woollahra's Lord Dudley Hotel was the sourece of their amusement, a giant man-dog by the side of the road, on his knees, sipping a cappuccino.
Half man, half dog - naked in every explicitly proportionate detail.
Titled Good Boy, the sculpture was erected in front of the Richard Martin Gallery yesterday as part of the I Love My Dog and My Dog Loves Me exhibition.
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'I Love my dog and my dog loves me'
Art Exhibition
Richard Martin Sydney
14 March - 1 April 2009
In this exhibition Gillie and Marc explore the theme of true, unconditional love through man's best friend, the dog. They assign dogs human activities and give them human personalities, proposing an optimistic future of friendship and unconditional love for the human race.
Gillie and Marc honor the spirit and nature of the dog, and the way their love can make humans better at being human.
www.richardmartinart.com.au
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