Nick Santoro’s universe might be a strategy for figuring out the dimensions of capitalism. In an offhand way, the expression Libidinal Hymnal certainly suggests that. And it is a state the late punk thinker Mark Fisher proposed as a kind of entrapment: a political model that leaves little room to dream beyond its own consumptive desires. Acquisition and personal expression might be paramount, but it’s pretty fun right? And Santoro offers us a populated grab bag where outcasts and winners launch into speculative encounters in a slippery dimension between local realism and the internet realm. (For example, TESLA’s cybertruck confronts the Bindle Bros in a George Soros network of grey pipes located in youtube’s blind spots.)…Read more

The Egg & Dart presents new works by Nick Santoro at Melbourne Art Fair, Online Viewing Rooms.
June 3 - 7 2020 and February 2021

HOLDING PATTERN / TREADING WATER has been drawn from our Stockroom and showcases the strength of The Egg & Dart artists and associates. We thank them all for their contribution and helping shape what we present. The exhibition will evolve as the month passes.

We are excited to be back at Sydney Contemporary this year with our artists Nick Santoro and Henry Jock Walker.

Find us at Booth C10

We are proud to introduce a group exhibition with E&D family and friends:
Lynda Draper, Ebony Eden, Julia Flanagan, Anita Holloway, Rob Howe, India Mark, Mish Meijers, Montana Miller, Hal Pratt, Nick Santoro, Henry Jock Walker, Leonie Watson, Christopher Zanko 
Opening night 3rd May, 6-8pm.
Click here for exhibition catalogue

Nick Santoro is in assemblage mode in these paintings, where events, people, found images and vernacular architecture are pulled into his world.  It is a way of reining in the transitory and the social. He brings together an uneasy alliance of characters to filter and process an accretion of imagery and happening. There are strange illusions of depth perception, where a couple of Gucci art stars with octopus arms and tiny hands reach for martinis on a precariously positioned trolley. A red balloon hovers in an unknowable space behind them. Deeper still lies the cosmos through an arched window. There are also the gaps between people and things awkwardly cohabiting: Vogue editor Anna Wintour and an old Quake4 gaming poster; the moon emoji grinning in proximity to two moustachioed men in argyle sweaters. 3MOT1ON1 explores a more progressive fragmentation of the relationship between painting and frame. This breakdown is further achieved through work appearing on the back of clothing and with sculptures like Kerry personifying the paintings.  This is Nick Santoro’s second solo exhibition at The Egg & Dart.

-Melody Willis