Zavros Silk Onagadori Work

Here is a mock- up of the beautiful Michael Zavros silk scarf art work entitled

 The Pheonix 2011,

 which will soon be mine!

Framed floating in a perspex box....I am thinking!

Image via Grantpirrie Gallery

Michael Zavros Pops UP

A new group show at a pop up gallery 'Suite One', in 

  Sydney Australia,

 for 

Grantpirrie Gallery, will feature limited
 edition works by Michael Zavros, Todd Hunter,
  Arlo Mountford, Ben Quilty, and Hossein Valamanesh.

Michael has been working on an edition of some very beautiful silk pocket squares entitled

 'The Phoenix', which show the sacred Japanese rooster, the Onagadori.

White Onagadori Oil on Board 2006

In the words of Zavros:

The Onagadori, a Japanese breed of rooster, is a most sacred fowl:  it boasts a genetic anomaly that means it doesn't moult.  Its spectacular tail feathers grow for the life of the bird, hence its metaphorical associations with the myth of the pheonix.  The Onagadori ostensibly carries within its genetic code the secret elixir of youth. Its beauty does not wither.  Once gifted to Emperors, they are now the pursuit of ornithological purists, fanatics.  They are kept as prized animals in cages that prevent damage to their tails and are shown with the same reverence as an object of rare beauty, like a treasured ornament. 

Objects of desire, decadent and redundant, they exist purley for display.

 Such incredible beauty and sadness...an object of rarity and tragedy is the beautiful Onagadori!

Will update with images of the current limited edition silkscreens from 2011 shortly.

Image courtesy of Michael Zavros.com

More information is available from Grantpirrie Gallery

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