MURRAY FREDERICKS

Murray Fredericks, Icesheet #0712, digital pigment print, edition of 7, 120x150cm.

ARC ONE are pleased to announce Murray Fredericks’ latest series of photography is now on display in the exhibition Topophilia, 6 Nov - 7 Dec 2013, ARC ONE, Melbourne.

In the three years from 2010 to 2013, internationally renowned photographer Murray Fredericks made six journeys to the centre of Greenland’s Ice Sheet to create his latest project, Topophilia. Ten epic photographs from this series will be exhibited at ARC ONE Gallery from 6 Nov to 7 Dec 2013. 

In Topophilia, Fredericks continues exploring the subjects of ‘space’ and the ‘void’. Conveying ‘an emotional experience of space’, Fredericks describes an ‘inner’, rather than ‘outer’ landscape. Fredericks locates his projects in featureless, perfectly flat landscapes austerely defined by an unbroken and continuous horizon. Working in such minimal environments, temporal atmospheric phenomena and the subtleties of light become powerful elements that define the visual plane. Verging on transcendental, this view transports us beyond our culturally imbued recognitions of the geographical qualities of place. 

In these locations, moments with the potential to transcend the ‘literal’ present rarely. As a result, Fredericks’ projects extend over many years, with months spent in inhospitable places like Greenland’s Ice Sheet and Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, where the iconic series Salt was conceived. From the thousands of photographs produced, only a handful of images successfully convey this experience of space - where the landscape becomes merely the medium, rather than the subject. Whilst surviving in these locations (often solo) is a dangerous proposition, Fredericks says that the adventure is simply a by-product of the pursuit of a vision and an adherence to concept.

- Annabel Holt, November 2013 

Fredericks’ resulting large-scale photographs have been exhibited widely in Australia and internationally. Fredericks’ work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; Artbank, Sydney; Macquarie Bank Collection, Sydney; Sir Elton John Collection, London; Valentino Collection; ABN Amro Collection, Museum of Sydney Collection, Sydney and numerous prestigious private collections. Fredericks has produced two documentaries; the multi-award winning and widely acclaimed Salt (Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre) and more recently Nothing on Earth, filmed in Greenland whilst producing Topophilia.

For all enquiries, please contact Annabel Holt at mail@arc1gallery.com

LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN / ROBERT OWEN / LYDIA WEGNER

Lyndell Brown & Charles Green, The Fire Within, 2013.

Melbourne NOW, showing at the National Gallery of Victoria from 22 November – 23 March 2014 features the works of ARC ONE artists LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN, ROBERT OWEN and LYDIA WEGNER. 
 

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EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS, alongside Peter E. Charuk and Garry Trinh are exhibiting in Summer Season 2014, opening Friday 29 November at The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. The night's proceedings will be opened by curator, Tony Nolan, followed by guest speaker Suhanya Raffel, Director of Collections at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

The exhibition will be open from 30th November 2013 - 16th February 2014.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is part of an impressive survey exhibition on Colombian Contemporary art at the Kunstmuseum Bochum in Germany.

The exhibition, titled Aliento, includes Fernando Arias, Álvaro Barrios, María Fernanda Cardoso, Antonio Caro, Juan Manuel Echavarría, Oscar Muñoz, Pareja & Chavez, Miguel Ángel Rojas, Doris Salcedo, Liliana Vélez Jaramillo.

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Exhibition dates: 23 November – 2 February 2013

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO presents her 2012 Sydney Biennale work El Museo de Órganos Copulatorios during the Art and Science conference at the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogota on Friday 15 November 2013. Cardoso's work is particularly concerned with the traditions of scientific illustrations and museology.

ANNE ZAHALKA

Anne Zahalka, 'The New Bathers', 2013.

The ABC series The Art of Australia has now started, if you have missed Episode 2 (with ANNE ZAHALKA interviewed on her photographic practice) you can now watch it on ivew (20 minutes into the episode) here.

Fo more information about the program click here.

NIKE SAVVAS

Nike Savvas, Everlasting, 2013.

NIKE SAVVAS' latest commission, Everlasting has been unveiled at the Quays Apartments in the Docklands, Melbourne. Savvas was selected for the commission from a shortlist of three artists by the director of MUMA, Charlotte Day.

Savvas has created an installation for the atrium of The Quays apartment complex, which is a stream of shimmering, iridescent blown glass balls suspended from the roof called Everlasting. The installation creates a real feeling for space, where the artwork beautifully complements the architecture.

JUSTINE KHAMARA

Justine Khamara, Vertical Alliteration #1, UV print, laser-cut plywood, MDF board, 2013. 

JUSTINE KHAMARA’S photo sculptural works (that recently featured in her exhibition ‘Reconstructure’ at ARC ONE Gallery) have sparked an online buzz. 

To read these articles click here and here.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO’s Naked Flora will be showing at the Galeria Casas Riegner in Bogota, Colombia, from October 25 – 28.

Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Naked Flora, 42x28cm, 2013.

TRACY SARROFF

TRACY SARROFF has been featured in the latest issue of Art Collector Magazine (Oct – Dec 2013), in the WHAT NOW? section, p. 72-73.  

Interviewed by Liang Luscombe, Sarroff discusses her approach to art making and the inspiration behind her exhibition Congruo, currently at ARC ONE Gallery until 2 November 2013.

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ANNE ZAHALKA

ANNE ZAHALKA presents a collection of ‘Artist’ portraits in an exhibition at Concordia Gallery, following her residency at The Newington College (NSW). 

These portraits began in 1990, exploring myths and stereotypes surrounding the figure of the artist in contemporary art. 

Titled Anne Zahalka and her Amazing Artists, the exhibition, curated by Hannah Chapman, opens on 22 October 2013. 

Read an interview with the artist about her upcoming exhibition here.

Anne also features in the new ABC/BBC series hosted by former Art Gallery of NSW, Edmund Capon called Art of Australia. The show airs 8.30pm Tuesday 22 October 2013 on ABC 1.

Exhibition dates: 22 October – 16 November 2013.

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EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS

Eugenia Raskopoulos, installation view, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, SA, 2010.

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS has been shortlisted in the National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize, presented by the University of Queensland Art Museum. The Biennial acquisitive award highlights the enduring importance of self-portraiture as an artistic subject and contributes to create a National Collection of Artists' self-portraits. The award's theme for this year is remix. post. connect., and will be judged by Blair French (Assistant Director, Curatorial & Digital, Museum of Contemporary Art). The exhibition opens on Friday 18 October 2013. 

Exhibition Dates: 19 October – 16 February 2014

Public Program: Saturday 19 October 2014, artists in conversation with Samantha Littley. 

More information on the exhibition click here.

MURRAY FREDERICKS / ANNE SCOTT WILSON / PETER DAVERINGTON

Murray Fredericks, Hector Thunderstorm Project, still from video, 2011

ARC ONE announces Late-Night Projections at Cumulus Up in November, screening works by artists including ANNE SCOTT WILSON, PETER DAVERINGTON and MURRAY FREDERICKS.

Projections will take place onto Collins Place from the 1st floor of the restaurant and wine bar Cumulus where you can come enjoy a specially designed late night menu.

Dates: November 2 – 30 from 9:30pm to 12am.

JOHN YOUNG

John Young, Repose (Autumn 2012), oil on linen, 190x144cm.

ARC ONE Gallery is delighted to announce our representation of respected and dynamic artist, John Young. Working from a bi-cultural viewpoint, with a focus on trans-cultural humanitarianism, Young has created many series of significant paintings over the last three decades of his practice.

Young has recently been awarded the prestigious Australia Council Visual Arts Fellowship for established artists to research the history of the Chinese Diaspora in Australia. The research will inform exhibitions to be created nationally and internationally in the years to come.

Concurrently, Young is working on a large scale monument for the City of Ballarat. This public monument will be the first work in the region to acknowledge the historic contribution of the Chinese people to the area, especially during the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

ARC ONE will be showcasing John Young’s work in our Viewing Room from mid November to mid December, commencing with a celebratory reception.

For more information on John and his practice, visit his artist profile

TRACY SARROFF

Tracy Sarroff, The Crimson Arch, oil paint on perspex, 2013, 56 x 83 cm, installed with Stalagmite, wood expanding foam, paint, epoxy resin, 56x23x26cm, 2012.

We are delighted to announce TRACY SARROFF's exhibition at ARC ONE Gallery, Congruo, from the 1st October - 2 November 2013.

Congruo, Tracy Sarroff’s first solo exhibition at ARC ONE, creates an immersive wonderland of psychedelic forms. Fuelled by Sarroff’s interest in geological formations and the crossover between scientific fact and fiction, a fantastical vision of our natural environment emerges. Sarroff’s vividly synthetic and reality-shifted Perspex paintings distort nature’s elements alongside her suite of sculptures.

Many elements in Congruo are inspired by Sarroff’s time spent as Artist in Residence in Hill End, NSW, rich with the eroded diggings of a bygone era. The over-mined and eroded creek bed The Golden Gully, is depicted in a series of hyper-real paintings on lurid Perspex. They also hark to landscape images from science fiction film classics.

Sculptures glow ghostly in the dark with delicious surfaces and take the shape of manufactured growth-forms derived from ideas based in transgenics. Other works project electric light and radiate a stark ambience of kitsch colour and space-age design. Comprised of paintings, wall assemblages and sculptural installations that correspond, unite and coincide with one another, the various forms of 'Congruo' morph dislocated natural realities with the aesthetic of science fiction.

ANNE SCOTT WILSON

Installation view, Fly Rhythm, 2013

Anne Scott Wilson is a finalist of the 2013 Substation Contemporary Art Prize, and is currently developing a site-specific work which will expand on her recent video Glide, presented at her solo exhibition at ARC ONE Fly Rhythm this August.

Winner of the Major Prize of $10,000, to be announced on Thursday 18th October, 6pm, followed by an after party and live music until late.

IMANTS TILLERS / JANET LAURENCE / EUGENIA RASKOPUOLOS /JULIE RRAP / GUAN WEI / JOHN YOUNG / ANNE ZAHALKA

Imants Tillers, The White Tree, 203 x 177.8 cm, Acrylic, gouache on 40 canvas boards

Janet Laurence, Eugenia Raskopoulos, Julie Rrap, Imants Tillers, Guan Wei, John Young and Anne Zahalka are featured in an impressive exhibition called Collective Identity(IeS): This is That Time at the Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery (NSW) 

The exhibition, curated by Lisa Corsi, examines how we define our interests as a society through the practice of art-collecting and particularly looking at the role played by private collectors in shaping notions of an Australian collective cultural identity.

The exhibition will be open until 17 November 2013

More information here.

DANI MARTI

Dani Marti, Snow White, becoming animal, 130cm diameter by 30cm depth, 2006.

If in London, visit this must-see exhibition opening at Siegfried contemporary on October 15th. The group exhibition centres on the theme of 'weight and measure', featuring Dani Marti’s work, Snow White, becoming animal together with works by Pedro Cabrita Reis, Martin Creed, Jose Davila, Richard Long, Jeff Wall and Fredrik Vaerslev.

Exhibition details here.

Weight and measure
Siegfried Contemporary,  London
Oct 15th - Dec 15th

DANI MARTI

Dani Marti’s video work will be part of VIDEO PINTA, a selection of new video art curated by Octavio Zaya as part of PINTA NY 2013, International Art Fair, New York, November 14 – November 17, 2013; with artists Carlos Aires, Richard Garet, Dani Marti, José Luis Martinat, Carlos Motta, Lucía Pizzani, Zoé T. Vizcaino.

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PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT

Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Bhava 11, acrylic and vegetation fiber collage on canvas, 120 x 100cm, 2013.

PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT is a finalist in the Albany Art Prize, presented by The City of Albany. The exhibition showcases a selection of contemporary Australian painting, and the breadth and depth of the enduring medium. The major acquisitive prize includes a four week studio residency along with $2,500 for associated expenses.

The exhibition runs from 29 September until 27 October 2013.

For more information click here.