Christian Capurro
Born 1968 Dampier, Western Australia. Currently resides Melbourne, Australia
Education
2004 - 06
Master of Arts (Media Arts), RMIT University.
1993 - 95
BFA (Printmaking), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University.
1987 - 89
Diploma of Photography (Fine Art), Australian College of Photography Art & Communication, Melbourne.
1986
Photographic Studies College, Melbourne.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016
ICEdust, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2015
a man held, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2014
Slave, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Amateur Prop (films), Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2013
Bootleg, Breenspace, Sydney
'IS', Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna
2012
Respiro Bianco shat o Quadrado Azul, Oporto 21.11.2012
2011
Mouthpiece, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2010
a vacant bazaar (provisional legend), Artspace, Sydney
The Waste of Breath, Light Projects, Melbourne
2004-05
Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette (collaboration), multiple venues, Melbourne
2004
Insufferable Nebulae & other couplings, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2003
Gorgonia, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2000
White Breath, West Space Inc., Melbourne
1999
Trying to keep more than one thing in your head at any given time (Viva Timor Leste), West Space
Inc., Melbourne
After the deluge, corrections, Temple Studio, Melbourne
Roadside Goods, cityartpublicspace transport shelters, Melbourne
1998
Engorge, Stripp, Melbourne
1997
Cicatrix, Gallery 106 Lt. Lonsdale St., Melbourne
Garnish (a suite of graftings), Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018-19
Obsession: Devil in the detail, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington
2017
Less Than: Art and Reductionism, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
An Unorthodox Flow of Images, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Patrick Pound: The Great Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2015
Propositions: Part 3, Milani Gallery (off-site), Brisbane
Writing Art, Artspace, Sydney
9/11, Moana Project Space, Perth
2014-15
Taking It All Away: MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2013
Unbound, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
2012-13
Cut with the kitchen knife, Travelling: Melbourne; Wodonga; Morwell; Dubbo; Swan Hill; Maryborough
2012
Negotiating this world: Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Knell dobre glas, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Oporto
2011
Christian Capurro, Agatha Gothe-Snape & Debra Phillips, Breenspace, Sydney
Erased: Contemporary Australian Drawing, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
2010-11
During Office Hours, Verband Geschlossene Fonds e.V., Berlin
2010
It happened that, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland
Print Resolution, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Art Fair Project Room
Still Vast Reserves II, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
InVisible: Art at the Edge of Perception, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
2009-10
Erased: Contemporary Australian Drawing, Travelling: Singapore; Bangkok; Chiang Mai; Khon Kaen
Mary Kelly | Christian Capurro | Klaus Mosettig, Simon Preston Gallery, New York
Mirror Mirror: Then & Now, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Tin Sheds, University of Sydney; Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide
2009
Zweckgemeinschaft, MICAMOCA, Berlin
Leave No Trace: Ridges, Troughs & Phantom Limbs, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York
Still Vast Reserves, Magazzino d'Arte Moderna, Rome
Plus/Minus, Switchback Gallery, Churchill / Faculty Gallery, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University, Melbourne
More love hours than can ever be repaid, Galerie Feinkost, Berlin
Behind the Image | The Image Behind (on covering & uncovering media), STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven
Lo Sguardo di Giano, American Academy in Rome, Rome
Second Hand, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna
2007-08
Monash University Collection: A Selection of Recent Acquisitions, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2007
Think with the Senses—Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense, Venice Biennale 52. International Art Exhibition, Venice
NEW07, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2006-07
Before the Body—Matter, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2005-06
The body. The ruin, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne University
2005
A Short Ride in a Fast Machine: Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces 1985—2005, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces,
Melbourne
2004
Cycle Tracks Will Abound in Utopia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Performance Anxiety, Ocular Lab, Melbourne
2002
Capurro, Ellis, Hutchison & Parsons, 1ST. Floor Artists & Writers Space, Melbourne
1999
Raw Hin: Christian Capurro, Choi Sung Youn & Soyoug Kang, Gallery Kobo Chika, Tokyo
Artist Contributions and Public Commissions
Pagework (#10) #12, (B.164) B.166, Christchurch Art Gallery | Te Puna o Waiwhetu, (March–May) December
2011– February 2012
Depiction (Cripps, ACCA), AGMA Magazine #4, Spring Issue 2011
The Value, Parabol AM #4, May 2009
Slutet/The End, Motiv #14, December 2008
On Originality, Natural Selection Issue 5, 2006
Interviews / Writings
Christian Capurro: SLAVE Interview, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2014
Questions for… Christian Capurro: SLAVE, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2014
Christian Capurro interview, ‘Incontri: 52. Esposizione Internationale d’Arte’, ASAC La Biennale di Venezia / I.U.A.V., Venice 2007
Highlights from the Venice Biennale, ABC TV Sunday Arts, 22.07.2007
111 [Risposte]. 3 [Domande] x 37 [Artisti], Exhibart.onpaper anno sesto #40, giugno–luglio 2007
Christian Capurro interview, ‘Exhibit A’, ABC Radio National, 01.04.2007
NEW07 Interviewed, Broadsheet: Contemporary Visual Arts & Culture vol. 36 #1, February 2007
Christian Capurro NEW07 interview, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Soundfiles, February 2007
Dear un Responsive, un Magazine Issue 4, Winter 2005
fpm (C. Capurro & P. Tyndall)
Day of Protests @ NGV, Haiku Review #6
M. Bullock, C. Capurro & T. Nicholso, After Images, Meanjin vol. 62 #2, 2003
Christian Capurro: Interview 1998, The John McBride Collection archive catalogue(s), National Library Australia, Canberra
Selected Commentaries
E. Blanco, Notes on the Poetics of Erasure, Love of Circulation, 20.01.2017
Y. Filipovic, Christian Capurro, Museum of Contemporary Art Collection Handbook, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2016
D. Rainforth, ‘_____’, art guide Australia, 05.08.2015
S. Koop, Christian Capurro, SPLAT! (http://crackleandsplat.com/portfolio/christian-capurro/)
R. Cook, Christian Capurro: ‘Through a Glass Darkly’ or ‘Thought Uses a Handheld Camera’, a man held, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne 2015
R. Nelson, 'a man held': Christian Capurro's mobile phone images at Centre for Contemporary Photography, The Age, 23.03.15
F. Stocchi, At Hand, Christian Capurro: SLAVE, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2014 [cat.]
S. Rees, Christian Capurro — Sculpting in Light, Christian Capurro: SLAVE, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2014 [cat.]
R. Nelson, Christian Capurro: A slave to the screen?, The Age, 16.09.14
K. Wilson, Christian Capurro: SLAVE, the subMachine, 30.08.14 (http://thesubmachine.net/2014/08/30/christian-capurro-aug-2015/)
D. Rule, Christian Capurro: SLAVE, The Age, 29.08.14
N. Bullock, A speculative exhibition: Aspects of recent photographic practice, Photofile Vol 93, Spring-Summer 2013-14
M. Backhouse, Christian Capurro: between image & body, art guide Australia July/August 2013
A. Groom, There's Nothing to See Here: Erasing the Monochrome, e-flux journal #37, 09.2012
J. Marmeleira, Suspensoes entre o poetico e a politica, Publico, 04.05.2012
A. Treacy, Dealing with non-traditional materials — a collaborative approach (case study), 7th AICCM Book, Paper & Photographic Materials Symposium, 2012
E. Jones, Room for further excavation, Cut with the kitchen knife, NETS, Melbourne 2012 [cat.]
A. Roelants, The Spectacle of Destruction: Christian Capurro, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Debra Phillips, Art Monthly Australia 248, April 2012
N. Bullock, In the wake of the image: Christian Capurro's a vacant bazaar, Column #8, Artspace, Sydney 2011
M. Robinson, ‘Christian Capurro’ & ‘The Future Now’, The Kaldor Family Collection at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2011
M. Gagen, Christian Capurro: a vacant bazaar (provisional legend), Eyeline: Contemporary Visual Arts #73, 2011
J. McDonald, Erased/The Primacy of Drawing, The Sydney Morning Herald, 05.03.2011
R. Sireekan, Negative creative: palimpsest as ghost, Bangkok Post, 24.06.2010
K. Zavistovski, Come Curious, Art: 21 blog, 07.06.2010 / Come Curious: The Artists Look, Art:21 blog, 15.09.2010
S. Smee, For art lovers, Western Mass. awaits, The Boston Globe, 07.03.2010
A. Stephen, Jumping through the Mirror, Mirror Mirror: Then and Now, IMA, Brisbane 2010 [cat.]
K. Johnson, The Lower East Side, Home to the Young & Emerging, New York Times, 04.12.2009 / Correction, New York Times 22.12.2009
S. Reber, Monster im Heizungsraum, Der Tagesspiegel, 26.09.2009
J. Paton, Backwards, slowly, blindly: Christian Capurro’s ‘compressions’, Erased (Contemporary Australian Drawing), Asialink / Art Gallery of New South Wales 2009 [cat.]
C. Lally & V. Gfader, Condensation Revisited: A Lecture on Pigments: 3, Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Singapore 2008
A. van Leeuwen, Walter B. en Christian C., Mister Motley #17, 2008
E. Meoli, Recchese d'Australia in Biennale a Venezia, Il Secolo XIX, 13.11.2007
G. Chabert & R. Parcollet, Think with the Senses/Feel with the Mind, art 21 numéro 14, octobre/novembre 2007
E. Lauria, La Carcia degli Art Vandals, Exhibitart.grandtour anno sesto #42, agosto–settembre 2007
S. Smee, Venice Biennale, Artist Profile, Spring 2007
L. Harris, Christian Capurro, Think with the Senses—Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, 52. International Art Exhibition — Venice Biennale of Art, Marsilio, Venice 2007 [cat.]
E. Brown, Between Rapture and Refusal, NEW07, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2007 [cat.]
S. Smee, Come feel the disdain, The Australian, 22.03.2007
M. Backhouse, When what's left is more, The Age, 14.03.2007
G. Barlow & K. McFarlane, Before the Body—Matter, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne 2006 [cat.]
K. Murray, Beyond Fortress Ceramica: A Knight's Tale, Craft Culture, September 2006
B. Crone, The Ruined Body?, The body. The ruin, The Ian Potter Museum of Art Melbourne University, Melbourne 2005 [cat.]
S. Koop, Say No, A Short Ride in a Fast Machine: Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces 1985—2005, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces with Black Inc. Press, Melbourne 2005
J. Clemens, Getting off your face with a destructive character; Christian Capurro's 'Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette', Artlink vol. 25 #1, 2005 & Minimal Domination, Surpllus #7, Melbourne 2011
C. Webb, Artists defy gallery’s sketch ban, The Age, 09.12.2004
J. Engberg, Cycle Tracks Will Abound in Utopia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2004 [cat.]
P. Webb, Deconstruction writ large, The Age, 21.05.2004 / Eyes wide open, The Age, 15.10.2004
M. DiPietro, Printmakers in the raw, Asahi Evening News, Tokyo, 23.09.1999
T. Nicholson, Garnish (a suite of graftings), LIKE, art magazine #4, Spring 1997.
Selected Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Art Gallery of New South Wales | John Kaldor Family Collection, Sydney
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Monash University Museum, Melbourne
University of Western Sydney, Sydney
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth