RIX & gallery 2024

RIX Places You Wouldn’t

13 July - 4 August 2024

Who is RIX?

Just over 6 months ago, we received two artworks via courier with a typed note stating.

• I am RIX.

• I make art.

• I do not want to be identified.

• If you want to sell my art I will only be known as RIX.

• All proceeds should be made out to a bank CHQ and deposited into a PO BOX which has a forwarding address.

• You can contact me with more requests for art via the same PO BOX.

Everyone loves a mystery, so we showed the first two works in The Salon, selling them in the first week. Now we have a complete exhibition dedicated to RIX and we are still none the wiser who RIX is.

The exhibition is titled PLACES YOU WOULDN’T, and this is the only text that arrived with the work when the courier arrived. No further answers to our questions.

So who is RIX? Is RIX local? Is RIX an artist who is creating art different from what they normally do? Why the mystery? Why are they called RIX?

What we do know is what we see in the artworks: strange suburban landscapes of places you wouldn’t normally consider art subjects such as picturesque rural vistas. RIX deals in the banal, a factory, a driveway, a path to nowhere/somewhere. I suspect the sites RIX chooses to paint are landscapes with cultural meanings. Although using traditional paint medium RIX seemingly pays homage to photographic/computer image pixelation with a nod to pointillism art movement of the late 1800s.

Enjoy the mystery and the artworks of RIX.

Sales:

Julie Collins - Director gallery@djprojects.net

0417324 795

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Installation Service within Victoria

Opening Hours: Thursday - Mondays 10.00 - 5.00pm

Closed Tuesday & Wednesdays

21 Morce Ave Sorrento, Victoria, Australia

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