Black Eye Gallery set to launch Simon Harsent’s ‘The Beautiful Game’ photography exhibition on Oct 3rd 6:30pm – 8:30pm in Darlinghurst, Sydney

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TheBeautifulGame_Harsent_1 copy.jpgBlack Eye Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of photographs by Simon Harsent entitled The Beautiful Game. The exhibition opens on October 2 and runs until October 27 at 3/138 Darlinghurst Rd, Darlinghurst, Sydney. The opening night reception is on October 3rd 6:30-8:30pm.

 

Simon Harsent’s ongoing collection, The Beautiful Game, born out of the twin obsessions of football and photography, depicts football stadia, purposefully public spaces, and presents them as part of a more personal landscape.

RSVP by Tuesday, October 1 to kellie@blackeyegallery.com.au.

These are places designed as theatres, both grand and small, but pictured here devoid of players and audience alike. By presenting them in this way, Harsent illustrates how they come to define their environment in much more subtle ways than one might, at first, suppose. Although these images are not populated, the ghost of man is never far away… Whether it is the corner of Chelsea Football Club’s ground, Stamford Bridge, viewed from a nearby cemetery, or Anfield, home to Liverpool, seen amid the empty husks of houses – long since abandoned – a wider, more resonant connection between structure and the society it exists within is made. These are, for many, familiar buildings, and pitches more often viewed in passing – catching the eye without necessarily holding the attention.

 

The Beautiful Game encourages us not just to look, but to see. It focuses our attention on the diffused detail that only becomes apparent on closer inspection, when we are forced to rid ourselves of assumptions – in this case surrounding beauty and the mundane – and the, often blurred, lines that separate the two.

Black Eye Gallery

3/138 DARLINGHURST RD, DARLINGHURST Sydney

Opening Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 6pm