Neon Parc acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung as the Traditional Owners and sovereign custodians of the Country on which we operate. We pay our deepest respects to their Elders past and present. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
Neon Parc is thrilled to announce participation at the 55th edition of Art Cologne, featuring solo presentations by Dale Frank and Nabilah Nordin.
Installation view, Dale Frank and Nabilah Nordin, 55th Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 2022.
For the 55th Art Cologne, Dale Frank has produced a suite of new paintings that extend his material explorations of the interplay between abstraction, colour and high-tech materiality. Using perspex, pigmented varnish and epoxy glass, Frank pushes the limits of his materials—creating swirling, fluorescent forms shimmering with vivid, metallic pigments that simultaneously offer pure surface and stunning void-like depths.
Dale Frank’s solo presentation within the ‘Contemporary’ section of Art Cologne—which highlights established international galleries—showcases some of the best contemporary art worldwide.
Nabilah Nordin has been invited as the first Australian artist to feature in ‘NEW POSITIONS’, a platform which provides young artists with the opportunity to present bold and ambitious new work as part of the curated section of Art Cologne, the longest-running art fair in the world. Selected by an international jury comprised of leading curators and museum directors, ‘NEW POSITIONS’ has premiered some of the most prominent contemporary artists working today.
For ‘NEW POSITIONS’, Nordin combines new bronze and mixed media sculptures in concert with idiosyncratic display devices, creating a sprawling tableau of irreverent sensibility, colour and form.
Dale Frank, ‘Colon Cystitis’, 2022. Epoxyglass and colour pigment, epoxyglass on perspex, 160 x 120 cm
Dale Frank, ‘Tiffany is suing the Hornsby Workers Club for Sexual Harassment after she insisted that the new migrant African kitchen workers were looking at her in a particularly funny way’, 2022. Easycast and colour pigment, epoxyglass on perspex, 200 x 200 cm
Dale Frank, ‘Rhonda 67, married from Testers Hollow, and Eric, 72, a bachelor from Coinda Retirement village, shared a room at the Federal B&B in Branxton the first monday night of each month, and have done so for the last 8 months, until the housekeeper refused their booking due to the mess which they would leave in their room with overturned chairs, pulled curtains and numerous used condoms’, 2022. Epoxyglass and colour pigment, epoxyglass on perspex, 180 x 200 cm
Dale Frank, ‘Urinary Tract Infection’, 2022. Epoxyglass and colour pigment, epoxyglass on perspex, 160 x 120 cm
Dale Frank, ‘Rectovaginal Fistula’, 2022. Epoxyglass and colour pigment, epoxyglass on perspex, 160 x 120 cm
Dale Frank,’ Alice, 54yo, Roseville, lives in a relationship with Mi Lae, 26yo, from Singapore, and Pip, an adopted 3 legged stray cat they found, meeting at their first Grief Counselling session after the death of Jonathan, Alice’s late 60yo husband, and Mi Lae’s, partner from the Sex Addicts Clinic’, 2022. Epoxyglass and colour pigment, epoxyglass on perspex, 200 x 200 cm
Dale Frank, ‘Aron, 30yo, lives alone in a relationship with his NB transitioning girlfriend, and seems to love pets of all kinds, scented candles, and the music of Taylor Swift, and hanging out after training sessions at AFL Demons change rooms thanks to his late father’s lifetime pass’, 2022. Epoxyglass and colour pigment, epoxyglass on perspex, 200 x 200 cm
Dale Frank, ‘Alexander, 28yo, Andrew, 33yo, in a relationship, purchased 69 Erskineville Road, Erskineville after Alex’s 8 million Lotto win, Andrew is free to have anonymous sex to ease his Anorexia induced insecurities, and seems to enjoy being beaten up, Alex is into leather, pain, large female dogs, breeds Dobermanns, and the music of Iron Maiden, both are heavy prescription drug users for recreation’, 2022. Epoxyglass and colour pigment, epoxyglass on perspex, 200 x 200 cm
Dale Frank, ‘Anal Polyps’, 2022. Epoxyglass and colour pigment, epoxyglass on perspex, 160 x 120 cm
Nabilah Nordin, ‘Split Spike’, 2022. Wood, mouldable plastic, epoxy modelling compound, spray paint, 64 x 22 x 21 cm
Nabilah Nordin, ‘Principle’, 2022. Bronze, automotive paint, 47 x 33 x 28 cm
Nabilah Nordin, ‘Soda Rub’, 2022. Bronze, automotive paint, 58 x 26 x 20 cm
Nabilah Nordin, ‘Engineer’, 2022. Bronze, 70 x 28 x 20 cm
