Events
Mouthpiece
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Milani Gallery, Brisbane
01.09.2011 - 17.09.2011
Telltale, 2011
poured and blown correction fluid and varnish on mirror with aluminium frame
81 x 98cm
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Mouthpiece
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Breathfalls, 2011
poured and blown correction fluid and varnish on polycarbonate
30cm diameter
Collection QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
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Milani Gallery
54 Logan Road
Woolloongabba
Brisbane QLD 4102
Australia.
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Maw, 2011
poured and blown correction fluid and varnish on mirror with aluminium frame
81 x 98cm
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The Waste of Breath, 2008-2011
poured and blown correction fluid and varnish on mirror
25-30cm diameter
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Wastes (studies), 2008-2011
poured and blown correction fluid on magazine pages
30 x 21cm
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Link to more works and exhibition views at the Milani Gallery website.
AGMA Magazine Project
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Capurro/Cripps
Capurro/Cripps (AGMA #4), 2010/11
Type C photograph
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Capurro/Cripps is a series of nine diptych photographs commissioned as a special artist project for the Depiction section of AGMA Magazine published in the Spring Issue #4, 2011. For Depiction artists are invited to re-present another artist's work on exhibition for publication; in this instance, Peter Cripps: Towards an Elegant Solution, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 08.06 - 25.07.2010.
AGMA Magazine, Spring Issue #4, 2011
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Capurro/Cripps (AGMA #1), 2010/11
Type C photograph
a vacant bazaar
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Artspace, Sydney
08.10.10 - 06.11.10
a vacant bazaar (provisional legend)
a vacant bazaar (provisional legend), 1999-2010
installation of nine erased magazines with erasings
Artspace view detail
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'a vacant bazaar (provisional legend)' (1999-2010) consists of nine magazines, each of which has been all-but-completely rubbed out, erased by hand by the artist over the last decade. They are an assortment of popular lifestyle-fashion magazines -- Vogue, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar etc. -- dating from the mid 1990s, each one different from the last. All but one of the magazines are linked by a shared advertisement, the near-same detail of which is all that remains after their erasure except for page numbering and most of the covers.
a vacant bazaar (provisional legend), 1999-2010
installation of nine erased magazines with rubber erasings
Artspace view detail
Additionally, each magazine is accompanied by a homogeneous, and sometimes substantial, mass of erasings -- the rubber and ink waste produced by the process of their erasure. In certain instances the erasings have been kept separate as distinct, numbered page-piles. A range of spatial explorations of the relationship between the magazines and their respective erasings forms the basis of the 'a vacant bazaar (provisional legend)' installation at Artspace, the inaugural public presentation of this work.
a vacant bazaar (provisional legend), 1999-2010
installation of nine erased magazines with rubber erasings
Artspace view detail
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ARTSPACE
43 - 51 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Sydney Australia.
It happened that
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01.10.10 - 29.10.10
ST Paul St. Gallery, Auckland
It happened that
Christian Capurro | Maddie Leach | Sean Lynch | Sriwhana Spong.
curated by Charlotte Huddleston
Work for Tired Eyes (figures in the landscape (L) & Bomb (R)), 2010
acrylic on magazine pages & posters
Work for Tired Eyes (figures in the landscape), 2010
acrylic on magazine pages & unworked sheet (centre)
Work for Tired Eyes (figures in the landscape), 2010
acrylic on magazine page
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Public Lecture:
Christian Capurro, Tuesday September 28, 6pm
Opening:
Thursday, September 30, 5:30pm
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Compress #20 2008
ink, correction fluid, magazine page with erased reverse side, & pins
Compress 2006-8
ink, correction fluid, magazine pages with erased reverse side, & pins
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ST PAUL St Gallery is pleased to present 'It happened that', an exhibition that explores speculative approaches to perception and the possibilities that guide one's experience of one's surroundings. The exhibition brings together works by Christian Capurro, Maddie Leach, Sean Lynch, and Sriwhana Spong that share a tendency to shift in place and time, creating an awareness of contingencies.
The artists' concerns range widely and engage with areas such as image and non-image, matter and immateriality to query image making and perception; the commodities market through investing in precious metal; the history of an imagined island off the west coast of Ireland; and the imprecision of recollection and capture of place, object and atmosphere.
Informing the exhibition is the phrase 'it happened that', an expression and attitude drawn from the novel The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil. The novel contains the idea that if there is such a thing as a sense of reality then there must also be such a thing as a sense of possibility. This possibility is defined as the ability to conceive of everything.
If one has a sense of possibility then one can invent, proposing 'here this or that might, could or ought to happen' and that if something is one way, then could it not just as well be otherwise? The observation and analysis of events under the influence of this attitude is at the heart of the novel and serves here as a backdrop for the wider consideration of how contingency operates upon us.
Catalogue available.
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ST Paul ST Gallery
Level 1 MW Building
40 St Paul Street
Auckland University of Technology
Auckland, New Zealand.
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