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Cats and Twist Club
23
April - 22nd May,
1999
Tue - Sun: 11.00am - 6.00pm
Gallery One
Malick Sidibé
Curator: André Magnin
I used to go to five different parties every
Saturday night. I was looking for the most joyful
and frivolous movements so that I could take the
pictures I liked. I think young people in those
days really liked twist, rock and Afro_Cuban music,
because it helped boys and girls to dance together,
touch one another, and dance close. That wasn't
possible with traditional music. Malick
Sidibé
Malick Sidibé's pictures capture the sexy
young men and women of Bamako thirty something
years ago. Dressed in wild combinations of
traditional African clothing and shiny Western
shirts, lit by the strobe of a late-night party
hanging out at swim-parties on the river, they
express pure joy of life. Fun to look at, they are
fabulous examples for anyone interested in fashion
and style. they are also fascinating documents of a
hybrid society, oscillating between traditional
tribal life and urban survival in the West African
city of Bamako in the new-born state of Mail
(formerly French Sudan).
Image Credits:
• Malick Sidibé, Regardez
moi, 1967
Hats
and Hair-Dos
Gallery
Two
Gervaise Purcell
Gervaise Purcell has been making photographs
for over sixty years. He began while at Sydney
Boys' High and, after the War, he established a
photographic practice in Surry Hills. From there he
undertook a breathtaking variety of photographic
commissions, from food to fashion to heavy industry
to celebrity portraits. This small exhibition of
work, excised from the mass of his oeuvre, brings
together shots of hats and coiffures from the
immediate post-war period. These creations, of
baroque complexity and artifice, contrast markedly
with Malick Sidibé's photographs of youth
culture from West Africa in the Sixties and Ian
Sharp's fly-posters of tattooing and body piercing
in contemporary Sydney. Looking back to the days
before the 'generation gap', Gervaise Purcell's
head shots are a nostalgic revisitation of past
fashion excesses.
Image Credits:
• Gervaise Purcell, Hairstyle - Alan
of David Jones, 1947
Flyposter
Installation
Foyer
Ian Sharp
Bringing things right up to date, Sydney
photographer, Ian Sharp's flyposter installation
celebrates the raw aesthetic of contemporary body
decoration. Set in the contrasting environs of the
mosh pit and the fashion studio, Sharp explores
contemporary tattooing and body piercing, that most
personal and permanent expression of individual
style and identity.
Image Credits:
• Ian Sharp, Scott, 1999
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