Events
The Waste of Breath
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Light Projects, Melbourne
09.07.10 - 18.07.10
The Waste of Breath
The Waste of Breath, 2008-10
poured and blown correction fluid on mirror
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Light Projects
176 High St, Northcote
Victoria 3070.
Hours: Friday to Sunday, 12-5pm
Opening drinks: Friday July 9, 2010, 6-9pm
All Welcome.
The Waste of Breath, 2008-10
poured and blown correction fluid on mirrors
installation detail
The Waste of Breath, 2008-10
poured and blown correction fluid on mirror
The Waste of Breath, 2008-10
poured and blown correction fluid on broken mirror
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He would pass like a stain of breath upon a mirror. --- Robert Louis Stevenson, 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde'
To show, that is the meaning of the word "ostension" which denotes those particular circumstances in which the ecclesiastical institution takes its image from the darkness of the reliquary and allows it to take the risk of manifesting its vacuity. --- Marie Jose Mondzain
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The Waste of Breath, 2008-10
poured and blown correction fluid on mirrors
installation detail
Mirror Mirror: Then and Now
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Mirror Mirror: Then and Now
Shusaku Arakawa | Art & Language | Robyn Backen | Ian Burn | Christian Capurro | Peter Cripps | Hugo Demarco | Mikala Dwyer | Alex Gawronski | Richard Hamilton | Joan Jonas | Julio Le Parc | Roy Lichtenstein | Callum Morton | Yoko Ono | Meret Oppenheim | Michelangelo Pistoletto | Robert Pulie | Eugenia Raskopoulos | Robert Rauschenberg | Jacky Redgate | Robert Smithson.
curated by Ann Stephen
White Breath (Passenger), 2009
mirrored wardrobe doors with correction fluid, and reflected light
ea. mirror 180 x 100 x 3.5 cm / light reflection variable
collection of the artist
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Exhibition Venues & Dates
Current
14.05. - 16.07.2010
Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide.
Past
04.01. - 02.05.2010
The University of Sydney Art Galleries, Sydney.
25.10. - 12.12.2009
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
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In the 1960s, mirrors began to be used by artists across a spectrum of international movements including pop, kinetic, minimal, and conceptual art. Mirror surfaces reflected the environment and the viewer, 'like a visual pun on representation', as Ian Burn observed. Not just a looking glass, mirrors indexed the instability of perception, while inviting a viewer to participate in the purported endgame of late modernism. Mirror Mirror presents classic mirror pieces from the 1960s and early 1970s by major artists including Robert Smithson, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Art & Language, Ian Burn, Joan Jonas, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Yoko Ono, Meret Oppenheim, Richard Hamilton, and Shusaku Arakawa. Alongside them are works by contemporary Australian artists - Robyn Backen, Christian Capurro, Peter Cripps, Mikala Dwyer, Alex Gawronski, Callum Morton, Eugenia Raskopoulos, Jacky Redgate, and Robert Pulie - that offer all kinds of interconnections and reverberations with the earlier work.
Catalogue available.
Mirror Mirror: Then and Now is an IMA joint project with the University Art Gallery, University of Sydney, in association with Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide.
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The making of this work was supported by an IMA Residency.
White Breath (Passenger), 2009
mirrored wardrobe doors with correction fluid, and reflected light
ea. mirror 180 x 100 x 3.5 cm / light reflection variable
collection of the artist
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Erased: Contemporary Australian Drawing
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Erased: Contemporary Australian Drawing
Christian Capurro | Simryn Gill | Jonathan Jones |
Tom Nicholson | Raquel Ormella.
curated by Natasha Bullock
Compress 2006/7 (pit of dublivores #6)
magazine page with erasure and ink, plus pins
299 x 229mm
private collection
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This is an Asialink and Art Gallery of New South Wales exhibition touring Asia through 2009-2010 before finishing its run at the AGNSW in 2011.
20.07. / 23.08.09 Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Singapore
04.06. / 28.06.10 PSG Art Gallery, Silpakorn University Gallery, Bangkok
09.07. / 29.07.10 Chiang Mai University Faculty of Fine Art Gallery, Chiang Mai
16.08. / 27.08.10 Khon Kaen Art Gallery, Khon Kaen
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Asialink presents Erased: Contemporary Australian Drawing, an exhibition of works by five internationally renowned contemporary Australian artists engaged in transforming the definition of drawing.
Erased: Contemporary Australian Drawing is presented in partnership with leading arts organization - the Art Gallery of New South Wales and profiles the diversity and strength of current contemporary Australian drawing practices.
The exhibiting artists are from Australian urban and indigenous backgrounds: Christian Capurro (VIC), Simryn Gill (NSW), Jonathan Jones (NSW), Tom Nicholson (VIC) and Raquel Ormella (NSW). They all explore the traditional art method of mark making in drawing and engage with social issues ranging from environmental awareness, industrial relations and nationalism, to more subtle statements about image-making in contemporary culture.
Among some of the many synonyms used for 'drawing' are 'represent', 'sketch', 'portray', 'illustrate', or to 'depict something'. These traditional and historical definitions of drawing imply a means unto an end. Erased includes examples of these approaches but the exhibition's aim is to expand such understandings to include erasure or removal, arguably an inherent albeit silent part of the creative methodology of drawing.
Each selected artist in Erased has established an ongoing practice from which they make work that creates a space for political considerations, stemming from a sense of transformation or loss.
Natasha Bullock, Curator, Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Catalogue available.
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