anna nazarri

horse play

7 october - 5 november 2011

• andrew nicholls, wooden parlour games australian art review, september-october 2011

Anna Nazzari’s new work, Night Mare, is a ten pin bowling game in which the pins consist of brightly glowing mares rearing up.

In this game, Nazzari plays with the etymology of the term “nightmare.” Historically a nightmare was not a female horse but understood to be an incubus or succubus that induced feelings of suffocation by riding or sitting on the chests of sleeping people. In Ernest Jones’ book, On the Nightmare, he suggested that the collective imagination linked the term “nightmare” to a female horse through mythology, folklore and superstition. In this fictional domain, the “rich sexual symbolism of the horse. . . is connected point by point with the corresponding myths of the night fiend” (Schreier Rupprecht 1993, p.50). Thus, the demon is absorbed into the imaginings of the mare. Nazzari’s game evokes the idea of nightmare through literal but humorous representations of Night Mares and also through the act of playing a game that is a nightmare to win.

This work will be supported by past works Arc de Triomphe and Toute le Monde Gagne as well as a series of photographs that literally represent nightmare superstitions.

 

All digital images are unique editions and prices are for framed works.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

install shot photo by bo wong
install shot photo by bo wong
install shot photo by bo wong	install shot photo by bo wong
arc de triomphe carved western cedar + electronic components 200 x 100 x 110cm 2010 $22,000
toute le monde gagne wooden roulette table carved from maple, cherry, nyotah, jarrah, pine, wood burned drawings and gold leaf 180 x 120 x 110cm 2010 $18,000	night mare jarrah, meranti, maple, cedar, oak, silicon horses, ball 350 x 170 x 120cm 2011 $20,000
night mare and night rider #9 digital image [glow in the dark components under UV light] 15 x 19cm [image size] 2011 $425 framed	night flyer #1 digital image [glow in the dark components under UV light] 21 x 28.5cm [image size] 2011 $500 framed
night mare and night rider #8 digital image [glow in the dark components under UV light] 22 x 28.5cm [image size] 2011 $500 framed	shod through the night #1 digital image [glow in the dark components under UV light] 28.5 x 16cm [image size] 2011 $500 framed
night flyer digital image [glow in the dark components under UV light] 28.5 x 21cm [image size] 2011 $500 framed	night flyer #3 digital image [glow in the dark components under UV light] 29 x 19cm 2011 $500 framed
shod through the night digital image [glow in the dark components under UV light] 25.5 x 15cm [image size] 2011 $500 framed	night mare and night rider digital image [glow in the dark components under UV light] 29 x 21cm [image size] 2011 $500 framed