Dale Frank, Artist. Artworks 2006–2023
An artist book/monograph of Australian artist Dale Frank.
Frank’s paintings are an experiment in raw chemistry, time, and motion. Perhaps the most prolific, radical, and singular Australian artist of his generation, Frank’s work – made by pouring and layering varnish over prolonged periods – embodies the transgressive power of artmaking. It is alchemy and abstraction in one turbulent, bubbling, mirror-slick concoction; intensely deliberate, but searing with a kind of dirt-under-your-fingernails psychedelic energy.
The major book Dale Frank, Artist. Artworks 2006–2023 features an immense selection of key works produced over the past seventeen years, a period in which Frank has pushed the limits of his output even further, experimenting with new materials including horror masks, human hair wigs, chocolate fountains, designer furniture, and filmmaking. In many instances, traditional paint is replaced with industrial materials such as resin, varnish, glass, epoxies, and fake blood. Designed by Stuart Geddes and Žiga Testen – and featuring major new texts by Edward Colless, Erik Jensen, Amelia Winata, and Georgina Reid – this vast book operates in a similarly radical fashion. Juxtaposing and layering Frank’s works over British fashion photographer Ben Morris’s frenetic, high-flash images of the artist’s home, studio, and surrounds, the book offers a dazzling, unsteadying encounter with a practice and a life that clash, coalesce, and collapse in on one another.
Not only the work itself, but also the photographs and layout―both created with a distinctly contemporary photographic approach throughout―make this a highly engaging book.
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Title: Dale Frank, Artist. Artworks 2006–2023
Artist: Dale Frank
Publisher: Neon Parc and Perimeter Editions, Melbourne, March 2024
Format: Section-sewn, case bound hardcover
Size: 275 × 370 mm
Pages: 408
Language: English
Edition: First edition of 2000 copies
ISBN: 978-1-922545-27-5