Artist
Amos Gebhardt
Gebhardt presents a filmic dance of an entirely different kind. In this multi-channel video, Lovers, 2018 – Gebhardt celebrates the drama of powerful thoroughbred horses, performing a courting ritual of extraordinary intimacy. Gebhardt’s poetic meditation on the animal language of consent and desire connects the viewer to a force and emotion, in which we become complicit partners to an act of passion.
– Erica Green, Divided Worlds, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art 2018
Download the media release for Night Horse.
Download the Evanescence essay by Joanna Kitto.
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Exhibitions
Night Horse
Amos Gebhardt
Night Horse examines the powerful currents between horses as they negotiate consent and desire during mating season. The viewer is drawn inside the kinetic swirl of the herd where hooves, flicking tails, and outstretched limbs offer an intimate encounter across the species divide. Shot in the heat of a February summer’s night, on the artist’s […]
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Night Horse
Amos Gebhardt
Online Viewing Space Night Horse examines the powerful currents between horses as they negotiate consent and desire during mating season. The viewer is drawn inside the kinetic swirl of the herd where hooves, flicking tails, and outstretched limbs offer an intimate encounter across the species divide. Shot in the heat of a February summer’s night, […]
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Evanescence
Amos Gebhardt
Online Viewing Space An online feature dedicated to the Amos Gebhardt video Evanescence (2018), and the related photography series. Scheduled to coincide with the Art Collector magazine issue #92 cover story, April – June 2020.
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Sydney Contemporary
Amos Gebhardt
Tolarno Galleries presents Amos Gebhardt‘s Night Horse at Sydney Contemporary art fair, Carriageworks, 12 – 15 September 2019. Amos Gebhardt is an artist whose works have a cinematic scale, challenging normative notions of humanness by examining intersections between culture, nature and the body. Gebhardt maps both human and non-human narratives using techniques of collage, dance, slow motion […]
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