Art Zimbabwe by Richard Parry
“Art Zimbabwe is an expanded approach to mail art and contemporary art processes having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular 'native information'. It is the study of a particular landscape without any outside influence."
-Richard Parry
Richard Parry sits down in the Astrup Fearnley Museum with Ida Sannes Hansen to discuss the Art Zimbabwe collaboration, his influences, and the history of his work. Highlighting Parry’s multidimensional approach to art making, this online event features artworks from pivotal moments in his trajectory, alongside a range of cultural influences that have shaped his practice over time.
National Gallery of Zimbabwe
Richard Parry
Art Zimbabwe counterfeit textile 6, 2011
screenprint on readymade textile
120 x 120 cm.
Richard Parry
Art Zimbabwe counterfeit textile 2, 2011
screenprint on readymade textile
120 x 120 cm.
“One insight is that we're not directly deceived by Art Zimbabwe but the contrary: we think of it as an ordinary thing. Our belief has been objectified.”
—Richard Parry
Astrup Fearnley Museet
Richard Parry
AB4841521, 2015
automobile paint on mirrored glass
150 x 150 cm
Richard Parry
AA2314996, 2014
automobile paint on mirrored glass
150 x 150 cm
“Am I the only one around here that finds the deliberate manipulation of culture our nation state that routinely champions the so-called wisdom of the invisible market hand to be very not OK?”
—Richard Parry
About Richard Parry
“I use Art Zimbabwe as a kind of schizophrenic mediation strategy; where the production of subjectivity becomes a crucial site for analysing and intervening in the reproduction of nature.”
—Richard Parry