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Mirror PracticeJELENA TELECKI
10 May, 2019 - 6 June, 2019
First Floor, 71-73 Stanley StreetDarlinghurst, NSW, 2010
+61 2 8316 3592
Mirror Practice is the result of Jelena Telecki’s consideration and response to myths and stories about artists and the way
that these ideas shape the way we understand and experience art works. Telecki examines how an artist’s persona that is imagined, rehearsed and performed often carries the main
reading of an individual artwork. In Mirror Practice the artist has focused on Joseph Beuys and his ‘shaman-like’ presence and narrative that was often clearly articulated in his work, in
particular the piece Explaining pictures to dead hare.
Telecki simultaeneously references the studio of Francis Bacon and often circulated images of his studio littered
with paint, canvases, brushes and whiskey bottles. Here it can be seen that the place where Bacon’s paintings are created embody who the artist was as a person - they are
characteristic of both a narrative and the painter.
A selection of the paintings in mirror practice feature portraits and still-lives that literally, or formally, ‘mirror’ each other
and re-focus the contents and the viewer on the nature of the artist, while smaller works look at the artist’s own life and
memories.
Mirror Practice
Jelena TeleckiStill life, 2019oil on linen122 x 214 cm48 x 84 1/4 inchesJTE002
Jelena TeleckiMirroring, 2019oil on canvas152 x 97 cm60 x 38 3/16 inchesJTE003
Jelena TeleckiPot, 2019oil on linen56 x 62 cm22 x 24 3/8 inchesJTE004
Jelena TeleckiExplaining Pictures (After Beuys), 2019galvanised steel structure, fur jacket, oil on canvas, wire, foam, synthetic filling, clothing125 x 76 x 56.5 cm49 7/32 x 29 1/8 x 22 1/4 inchesJTE009
Jelena TeleckiS.I., 2019oil on linen46 x 36 cm18 1/8 x 14 1/4 inchesJTE005
Jelena TeleckiUpitnik 1, 2019oil on linen30 x 24 cm11 7/8 x 9 3/8 inchesJTE006
Jelena TeleckiUpitnik 2, 2019oil on linen30 x 24 cm11 7/8 x 9 3/8 inchesJTE007
Jelena TeleckiMirror Practice, 2019oil on linen51 x 41 cm20 x 16 1/8 inchesJTE008
Jelena TeleckiSelf-Talk, 2019galvanised steel structure, wire, foam, synthetic filling, clothing162 x 115 x 38 cm63 3/4 x 45 1/4 x 14 7/8 inchesJTE010
