“Fuck Your Heroes”
Michael Ciavarella, Ross Coulter, Deven Marriner and Laith McGregor
1 Feb → 23 Feb 2008

Fuck Your Heroes derives from the title of a book of photographs by Glenn E. Friedman that documented emerging sub-cultures from the 1970s whose identities were fashioned largely in relation to their predecessors. This exhibition brings together four male artists who attempt to relate their own experiences as artists in relation to their predecessors, and the implications of masculinity that this entails. ??

Fuck Your Heroes is an exploration of the themes, materials and processes of artists who have come before us. As Atticus Finch reflected in To Kill a Mocking Bird, ‘you never really understand a person until you consider his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around'. Posing, piss-making, flaunting and fucking; one part homage to every two parts irreverence, Fuck Your Heroes calls into question past and contemporary art practice, as well as hero worship. ? Michael Ciavarella, Ross Coulter, Deven Marriner and Laith McGregor are Melbourne-based artists.