Exhibition05.02.10 - 27.02.10
For this exhibition Hennessy will be restaging the blast which announced the beginning of the era of explosives, Hell's Gate NY. In a perspex vitrine in the gallery space containing a tonne of water, he will undertake a reduced scale recreation of the 1861 blast which remained the largest man-made explosion until the atomic bomb. The project reflects on the huge but strangly invisible role the explosives play in the modern era. |
Drawing on the mottled and highly litigious history of explosives, Melbourne-based artist Peter Hennessey will be creating a major new performance installation for GCAS.