Beach boys - Juan Pablo Plazas take on Max Dupain´s Sunbaker, breaking open the iconic image and returning it from the realm of symbolism by retracing its contours, reanimating the body and imaging its inner life.
- Harry Roberts, Belle Magazine
A Deadpan delivery of coloured pencil and watercolour European sketches, tag and bag assemblages, and bad flooring carpet that jeers at our ordinary and costumes common tropes in this surreal beachscape down Liverpool Ln
- Anonymous Sydney critic
at Opening Reception, February 1, 2024 on DITHER.AU
EXHIBITIONS AT CHAUFFEUR
JUAN PABLO PLAZAS
SUNBAKER´S REVERIE
FEBRUARY 1 - MARCH 2, 2024
THE PRACTICE OF EVERYDAY LIFE, AFTER DE CERTEAU
JOHN BARBOUR, ET AL, BEN GAVIN, IRENE PEREZ HERNANDEZ, NICOLAS LAMAS, ROBERT MACPHERSON, JEREMY HUTCHISON, JUAN PABLO PLAZAS
NOVEMBER 8 - DECEMBER 1 2018
in collaboration with YUILL/CROWLEY
Sunbaker's Reverie (After Dupain)
Pencil and watercolour on paper
A3 folded carson paper, tape, museum glass, board, timber frame, certificate of authenticity
60 x 52 x 3 cm
2024