“Operation Margarine”
Michael Ciavarella and Corinna Berndt
27 July → 18 Aug 2012

Operation Margarine explores the poetics and possibilities of collage and collaboration between two artists. For this exhibition, Michael Ciavarella and Corinna Berndt have created two works separately, and several works collaboratively. All works are a response to each other’s artistic practice.

Like a science laboratory for artistic modes, Berndt and Ciavarella have produced a body of work collaboratively and individually under a specific set of conditions. The artists intend these rules to define boundaries of play and randomness and to highlight the limitations, conscious or otherwise, placed on all artistic practices.

Michael Ciavarella is a Melbourne-based artist who completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) at the VCA in 2006. Corinna Berndt completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 2006. She moved to Melbourne in 2008. Both have exhibited locally and internationally. This is the first collaboration between the two, reflecting a shared interest in collage and various media.