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Jane Gillings @ NG Art, Gallery

August 30th, 2010 by Owen Craven | No Comments | Filed in exhibition

Youthful Experience (detail), 2010, mixed media, dimensions variable

Youthful Experience (detail), 2010, mixed media, dimensions variable

Come Closer (Now Go Away) is the latest solo exhibition by Jane Gillings at NG Art Gallery, Sydney. The work that forms this exhibition is the recycling of and engaging with – what some would call – hoarded waste. Gillings compulsively collects and, by her own admission, hoards before she reassembles by way of embracing and engaging with her creative impulses.

Gillings hates waste and disorder. Her studio is a refuge for perceived waste. Organised by size, colour and object, Gillings compiles objects from knitting needles, discarded board game pieces and small toys to indiscriminate incidentals from around the kitchen and second hand shops. It is at this point her art making practice launches.

Just like an abstract painter, Gillings’ sculptures are constructed, for the most part, through her response to the materials. In her own words, Gillings has “little influence on what it [the sculpture] will become until [she] start[s] to study its possibilities and limitations”.

The works in Come Closer (Now Go Away) expose the viewer to waste – is it their own? How do they conserve? What do they discard? It is the open ended questions that lure you in (‘Come closer’ and observe); But the abstract form that belies the work leaves open their interpretation – are they about the environment? Are they simply an indulgent, personal journey for Gilling to which we as viewers are privileged to view? (‘Now Go Away’ and contemplate).

The exhibition runs until 11 September at NG Art Gallery, Sydney

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JON CATTAPAN @ SUTTON GALLERY

June 19th, 2010 by Paul | No Comments | Filed in exhibition

Jon Cattapan

Jon Cattapan, Viridian Eye

OVER THE LAST thirty years, Jon Cattapan has established a reputation as one of Australia’s most significant and prolific painters. In this new body of works at Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Viridian Eye, the artist extends his exploration of ‘Night Visions’ drawn from his experiences as a commissioned artist for the Australian War Memorial in Timor Leste during 2008.
Whilst in Timor Leste, Cattapan visited a number of temporary bases at Gleno, Bacau, Maliana and Vekeki. Following Australian peace keeping forces on their night patrols, the artist was able to digitally record images of expeditions using night vision and infrared technology. Here, Cattapan captured the sporadic fluctuations of night vision data as it intersected with the physical landscape, to reveal pockets of human activity and interaction. In this way, the experience can be understood to have resonated strongly with Cattapan’s previous and iconic explorations of cityscapes that have often depicted the interrelationship of human activity and networks of digital exchange.

Exhibition: 24 June – 24 July, 2010
Opening: Saturday 26th June, 3-6pm
Sutton Gallery, 254 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy

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JULIAN HOOPER @ GALLERY 9

June 19th, 2010 by Paul | No Comments | Filed in exhibition

Julian Hooper

Left: Mother and Daughter 2010 acrylic on paper 76 x 56cm; Right: First Date 2010 acrylic on paper 76 x 56cm

THIS EXHIBITION of paintings and works on paper by acclaimed New Zealand artist Julian Hooper, presents figures made up of incongruous elements like fish tails and fruit, reminiscent of Arcimboldo. Titled Golden Solvent, this is Julian Hooper’s second solo show at Gallery 9.
Curator Victoria Lynn writes: “Hooper has compared them with figures from fashion magazines, but the absurdity of their attire transforms them from an everyday location or identity into their own universe. These unexpected combinations recall the discordant practices of surrealism and dadaism, but Hooper’s work is not so absurdist. The artist’s oeuvre has been characterised by this process of finding links between seemingly unfamiliar territories.”

Exhibition: 23 June – 17 July
Opening: Wednesday 23 June 6 – 8 pm
Gallery 9, 9 Darley Street, Darlinghurst

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SODA_JERK @ KUDOS GALLERY, SYDNEY

June 2nd, 2010 by Owen Craven | No Comments | Filed in exhibition

Soda_Jerk, 2010, still from After the Rainbow

Dynamo video artist duo Soda_Jerk have been at it again. Their current work titled After the Rainbow is a 2-channel video installation that investigates the temporal dimensions of cinema.

Known for their work in found audio and visual samples this video is Soda_Jerk’s second installment in “The Dark Matter Cycle” – a series of video remixes that explore the notions of time travel and its relationship between recorded media to the passage of time.

Soda_Jerk have engaged the opening sequence of the 1939 Hollywood hit The Wizard of Oz to delve into the fantasy world of cinema and the reality of Judy Garland’s tragic life. The famous twister, instead of carrying Dorothy to Oz, transports the young and hopeful Garland into the future where she encounters her real life older self.

Originally commissioned for Melbourne’s Next Wave festival, After the Rainbow is now on exhibition at Kudos Gallery, Sydney.

Kudos Gallery
6 Napier Road, Paddington
T +61 2 9326 0034

Until Saturday 12 June
Open:  Wednesday-Friday 11am-6pm + Saturdays 11am-4pm (artist floor talk 2pm 12 June)

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LOUISE BOURGEOIS 1911-2010

June 2nd, 2010 by Paul | No Comments | Filed in news

Louise Bourgeois, Photo: Annie Leibovitz

LOUISE BOURGEOIS, famed French-born American sculptor, has passed away in New York aged 98.

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DAN PERJOVSCHI ON VERNISSAGE_TV

June 2nd, 2010 by Paul | No Comments | Filed in news


DAN PERJOVSCHI is an artist who has taken political cartooning out of the news and into galleries, working directly onto the walls of some of the world’s leading art venues, including the atrium of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Much of Perjovschi’s work has dealt with the birth-pangs of the EU, including the accession of his native Romania. VernissageTV caught up with the artist as he chalked up an outside wall at Fumetto Festival Lucerne.

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SOME FILM MUSEUMS I HAVE KNOWN, 19-22 MAY @ ACMI, MELBOURNE.

May 19th, 2010 by Paul | No Comments | Filed in exhibition
Some Film Museums I Have Known

Cecily Hardy and John Leary. Photo by Will Mansfield, 2009

Who wouldn’t love a festival that runs under the motto “No Risk Too Great”? The 2010 Next Wave Festival is a collection of events involving some 300 artists across a range of endeavours and Melbourne venues. “Not only in galleries and theatres,” says Festival Director Jeff Khan, “but also on our streets, in sporting clubs, high on rooftops and across a host of Melbourne’s most intriguing public and private spaces.”

As part of the Festival, opening 8pm tonight at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image is the “darkly comic journey into the heart of one woman’s cinematic obsession”: Some Film Museums I Have Known

The performance/film is a “tongue-in-cheek exploration into the cultural dominance of Hollywood. Acclaimed theatre company Rhubarb Rhubarb, the team behind the wildly popular cinema remixes Wonka! and The Mad Max Remix, have created a world of dioramas, tiny cameras, VHS and internal monologues within an ever-evolving DIY set.”

Some Film Museums I Have Known is running same time each evening until this Saturday 22nd (+ a 2pm Sat matinee)

AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR THE MOVING IMAGE,
FEDERATION SQUARE, MELBOURNE

ENTRY
$15/ $13 concession
Tickets 1300 727 432

www.nextwave.org.au

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DAVID SERISIER @ LIVERPOOL STREET GALLERY, SYDNEY

May 7th, 2010 by Owen Craven | 1 Comment | Filed in exhibition
From top left to bottom right: David Serisier, untitled yellow square painting, untitled grey painting, untitled red square painting, untitled blue painting, 2010, all oil on linen, 45.7 cm x 45.7 cm each

From top left to bottom right: David Serisier, untitled yellow square painting, untitled grey painting, untitled red square painting, untitled blue painting, 2010, all oil on linen, 45.7 x 45.7 cm each

David Serisier’s latest body of abstract paintings further explores his interest into the perception of colour and light; issues of materiality and immateriality; and his passion for the geometry of the square. The exhibition is made up of five large paintings of varying monochromatic colours, four smaller monochromatic paints, and a series of prints made through a collaboration with Diana Davidson.

David has recently travelled to Japan and the USA, where he encountered different light and space. Attempts to describe the experience of Serisier’s paintings have drawn analogies with the natural world around him. These experiences of new spaces, new lights, and new natural worlds heightened his senses and curiosity to explore the project that is his current exhibition.

Born in Australia in 1958, David Serisier has been committed to an abstract aesthetic for over twenty years. He has received numerous awards and scholarships, including the Australia Council Greene Street residency in New York. His work is represented in many significant public, corporate and private collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, New England Regional Art Museum, Charles Sturt University, Artbank and JP Morgan Chase Bank.

Until 3 June
DAVID SERISIER
TOWARDS THE WHITE BUFFALO
LIVERPOOL STREET GALLERY, SYDNEY
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ROBERT ROONEY @ TOLARNO GALLERIES, MELBOURNE

April 16th, 2010 by Owen Craven | 2 Comments | Filed in exhibition

Robert Rooney, Le Rire: Signes d’Intelligence (GOD), 2010, acrylic on canvas, 86 x 141.5cm. Courtesy the artists and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

THE FIVE PAINTINGS in Robert Rooney’s latest exhibition are based on images by cartoonists who signed themselves Picq, Vire and GOD. These cartoons were sourced from copies of Le Rire, a French satirical magazine that Robert Rooney found in a second-hand bookshop in 1999.

Le Rire (Laughter) was founded by Felix Juven in October 1894, in a climate of anti-government feeling fuelled by the Drefus Affair.  As a product of the Belle époque, it counted among its contributors, artist and illustrators such as Toulouse-Lautrec, Jean-Louis Forain and Théophile Steinlen. The journal ceased publication in the 1950s, only to be revived for a short time in the 1970s.

Since the early 1990s, when Rooney began using illustrations in obscure childrens’ books as the basis for paintings, he has avoided images that can be pinned down to a particular period.  He says he ‘would never use Manga or Boys Own Annual style illustrations because their origins would be instantly recognizable.’

Though the French Laughter images could be mistaken for an example of 1950s ‘cartoon modern’, the 1937 cartoons have the timeless quality he prefers.  The French Laughter paintings are titled after the captions for the cartoons.

Until May 8 2010
ROBERT ROONEY
FRENCH LAUGHTER_LE RIRE: HOMMAGE TO PIQU, VIVE AND GOD
TOLARNO GALLERIES, MELBOURNE

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WHAT @ GALLERY 9, SYDNEY

April 5th, 2010 by Paul | No Comments | Filed in exhibition

what

The artist known as what

THE ARTIST known as what is one of the most enigmatic art identities in Sydney. MCA curator Glenn Barkley profiled what for us in 2008 and since then what’s work has been acquired by several major collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. For this latest exhibition at Gallery 9, provocatively entitled Satanism, the artist is “messing with notions of good and evil via Bach; a video performance of his Chaconne in D minor, works on paper and the dark art of painting.”

Until April 17th
WHAT
GALLERY 9, SYDNEY


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