Sutton Gallery

In advance of Aleks Danko’s forthcoming exhibition at Sutton Gallery, experience 𝘈(𝘎𝘈𝘗)𝘌— 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 / 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘈 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 2016 – 2026 at McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery, a survey spanning the past decade of the artist’s practice.
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For over fifty years, Aleks Danko has shown an unwavering interest in the ways people interact with art. Now in his mid-seventies, Danko’s observations of the absurdities of the art world and contemporary life are as fresh and provocative as those of his early career, his focus and wit razor sharp.
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A(GAP)E is an exhibition of work made by Danko over the past ten years. Curated by the artist himself, it is a distillation of his critique of the conventions governing the making of art, and how and where it is encountered, perceived and read.
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In Danko’s conceptualisation of A(GAP)E the gallery visitor plays an essential role. For each work is incomplete until the visitor brings to it their memories, experiences, desires and moods. A(GAP)E does not offer a passive art experience, rather an intuitive, complicit and consciousness-raising one.
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Aleks Danko began making art in the late 1960s. As well as being a period of acute political and social upheaval internationally, the era precipitated Australia’s cultural transition from modernist painting and sculpture, with its unyielding principles of autonomy, authorship and originality to post-modernism’s assault on the art object and its radical questioning of the role and status of art. New movements and forms—conceptualism, performance art, ‘happenings’, Minimalism, and Fluxus— privileged processes and ideas over objects.
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Audiences are invited to enjoy this collection of beguiling, poetic, darkly funny works by one of Australia’s leading spatial practitioners.
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A(GAP)E— mesmerized by some / thing.
A reflection 2016 – 2026
Until Sunday 14 June 2026
McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery
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