Antony Black Parts, 2010, mixed media
, 14 x 17 inches
ANTONY (Anohni)
The Cut
The Cut
The cut on her face
The blood from under her skirt
A red fountain carries me
Towards my destiny
The cut in the sky
Out pour father's eyes
Dive deep in the snow
Cold seed for the spring
Harvest of my creativity
The cut on her face
Portal of our race
Spurned majesty sighs
For that cut!
Maloney Fine Art is pleased to present The Cut, a
solo exhibition of work by Antony,
on view from September 12 through
October 26, 2013.
Antony has created a body of work including
drawing, collage, and sculpture alongside his critically acclaimed musical
career as both a singer and composer. Both his music and visual art are marked
by intuitive and accumulative practices that reflect a shared visual and
psychological vocabulary. The initial inspiration that provided the framework
for the exhibition was a poem written by the artist entitled The Cut,
which describes the source of creation as a slit in the sky. The marks that the
artist makes on the surface of his artwork can at once be understood as scars
as well as applications that have the ability to heal the surface of the paper,
fabric, or canvas. A delicate line can be juxtaposed with a harsh application
of paint or a torn edge. Many of the works are intimate in scale and ephemeral
in their materiality, but they are monumental in the emotional depth that they
convey. Like Joseph Beuys, Antony's work originates in personal experience
yet it also addresses universal artistic or social ideas and poetically
suggests the healing potential of art.
Antony Hegarty, often referred to simply as Antony,
is an English singer, composer, and visual artist. He is best known as the lead
singer of the band Antony and the Johnsons, his work with Hercules
and Love Affair and his collaborations with Marina Abramović, Rufus Wainwright,
Robert Wilson and Yoko Ono. Antony was the curator of “Meltdown” at the
Southbank Centre in London in 2012.
Born in Chichester, West Sussex, England in 1971,
Antony currently lives and works in New York.
Since 2000, he has released four studio albums with
his band Antony and the Johnsons. A special edition of the band’s 2010 album Swanlights
was accompanied by a book published by Abrams Image featuring drawings and
collages by Antony as well as photographs by Don Felix Cervantes in collaboration
with Antony. Solo exhibitions of his artwork have been presented at Isis
Gallery, London in 2009, The Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles in 2012
and Sikkema Jenkins Gallery, New York in 2013.
His work was included in It’s not only
Rock’n’Roll, Baby! presented at BOZAR, Brussels in 2008 and at the
Triennale Bovisa, Milan in 2010. In 2009 he curated the group show 6 Eyes at
galerie du jour agnès b., Paris. Antony’s performance projects include Miracle
Now (1996); TURNING (2004/2006), in collaboration with Charles
Atlas; and The Crying Light (2009).
Antony
was musical director of The Life and Death of Marina Abramović (2011)
in collaboration with Abramović and Robert Wilson. Commissioned by the Museum
of Modern Art, New York, his performance Swanlights debuted at Radio
City Music Hall in 2012.
Antony_
Untitled, 2011
Mixed media
20.75 x 21 inches
Antony_
Untitled, 2013
Mixed media
10.75 x 15 inches
Antony_Witch River, 2011
Mixed media
24.75 x 23 inches
