Dani Marti, the making of Armour for Adelaide Biennial 2014.
DANI MARTI’s sculptures, Armour, featured in the 2014 Adelaide Biennial, have been acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) for its permanent collection.
This year, the Adelaide Biennial attracted more than 110,000 visitors over approximately two and a half months – a 10 percent increase on attendance in 2012.
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Eugenia Raskopoulos, Vestiges #1, 2010-2014, digital pigment print on archival paper, 142x105cm.
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS
Vestiges
13 May – 14 June 2014
ARC ONE Gallery is excited to present Eugenia Raskopoulos’ photographic series, Vestiges, from which she won the 2012 Josephine Ulrich & Win Schubert Photography Award with the work Vestiges #3.
In Vestiges, Raskopoulos has photographed carefully kept pieces of material and wrapping – plastic, paper and fabric – used to wrap gifts given to her over her years of birthday celebrations from 2010 to 2014. The series of twelve archival digital prints illustrates a ritualistic and physical connection between giver and receiver, as well as a sense of emptiness; of roles played out, of things been and gone. Anneke Jaspers, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, refers to the photographs as records of ‘soft violence’ - ‘an act of destruction that is inflected by tenderness’ while Raskopoulos unwraps her gifts. Within these images, we are left with a strange yet familiar vessel, imprinted with Raskopoulos’ touch and testament to a moment past. In its capture, each piece of decorative refuse becomes an object that hangs in a state of temporal logic.
Raskopoulos has exhibited in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally including, Read your Lips, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (2013); footnotes at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2012); Words Are Not Hard – Intrude 366, Project Zendai MoMA, China (2008), and Writing Towards Disappearance, at ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne (2009).
Raskopoulos has also participated in various group exhibitions such as Image Anxiety/Ansiedad Visual, PhotoEspana, Spain (2012); Light Works, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2012); Group Exhibition, William Wright Artist Projects Space, Sydney (2011); How We Know that the Dead Return, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne (2010); Mirror Mirror Then and Now, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide (2010) and Video Logic, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2008). In 2007, Raskopoulos’ work was shown in Nightcomers at the 10th International Istanbul Biennale.
In 2012 Raskopoulos was awarded the Josephine Ulrich & Win Schubert Photography Award for her work, Vestiges #3. In 2010 and 2009 Raskopoulos was a finalist for the Albury City National Photography Prize and the Redlands Westpac Prize respectively. In 2006 she received a MoMA scholarship for The Feminist Future conference from the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Raskopoulos has also been the recipient of a number of grants from the Australia Council.
Raskopoulos’ work is in Australian and international collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales; Queensland Art Gallery; Art Gallery of Western Australia; Artbank Collection; Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece; Polaroid Corporation Australia; Bodo University, Norway; Malmo University, Sweden; Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD; Groningen Hochschule University, Netherlands. Raskopoulos’ works are also held in private collections in Australia, Greece, China, Switzerland and the USA.
For all enquiries contact Annabel Holt at mail@arc1gallery.com
Robert Owen, Endings - Kodachrome 64, No. 00, 22/07/1992, 2009, archival print on 310gms Carsons BSK Reeves Paper, edition of 7, 104x72.5cm.
ROBERT OWEN and PETER DAVERINGTON has been selected to participate in the exhibition Perceptions of Space: Justin Collection at Glen Eira City Gallery. Owen will participate with an archival print, titled Endings - Kodachrome 64, and Daverington with a video work, titled Arcadia.
The Endings series comprises a series of colour photographic prints that are the result of an expansive collection of film stubs that Owen collected from 1968 to the mid 1990s. From these accidental end bits of film Owen has transformed chance images into what could be viewed as “apocalyptic landscapes” and refers to more than just the end of film. Marking the end of film itself and the beginning of the digital age, these film ends are notations in time, recording the residue of analogue image construction.
Robert Owen’s practice engages with a sensory investigation of nature, light, colours, time relations and situations in space that play between the physical and metaphysical.
Peter Daverington, Arcadia, 2012, HD single channel BluRay video (loop) 8:54 min.
Daverington's Statement
"Arcadia is an audio-visual meditation on a basic unit of perceptual reality, the Monad. In science, the Monad is often used to describe the primal unseen entity of creation, which has lead some people to describe it as the God particle. Arcadia begins as a single point in the nameless void from where a linear narrative develops suggesting that all things are intricately connected. As we follow a line that develops from a point in space to a complex hypercube we travel through the microcosmic labyrinth of quantum physics and out into the landscape. The landscape here represents the sublime - a reference to the romantic portrayal of nature by the Hudson River School painters.
Arcadia is an attempt to fuse my oil paintings and music together in a single work. In this way I refer to it as a moving image painting. I am interested in finding a way for images and music to represent the experience of being in the world as an infinite cycle of duration and extension - a meditation on how the ‘One’ reflects the many and how a grain of sand can reflect the entire universe."
The exhibtion runs from 16 May - 15 June 2014.
Opening night: Thursday 15 May 2014 at 6:30pm.
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Pat Brassington, Blush, 2014, pigment print, 80 x 72cm
PAT BRASSINGTON has been featured in the visual arts section of The Age. Robert Nelson's fantastic overview of ARC ONE's current exhibtion offers some insight into Brassington's overarching themes. In this selected exhibition, Brassington's unique surrealist aesthetic is eminent, as are the charming and disquieting undertones that induce a sense of beauty and morbidity.
Read the article here
Guan Wei, The Enchantment No. 11, 2012, acrylic on linen, 180x100cm.
Congratulation to GUAN WEI, who has been shortlisted for the Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, curated by Tim Johnson.
The exhibition, which will be held at the National Art School, Sydney, runs from 11 April - 15 May 2014.
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JULIA GORMAN's commission at the Geelong Art Gallery has been unveiled at the Douglass and Hitchcock galleries. Gorman's vinyl wall drawing Growth habits takes its inspiration from the free-flowing forms of garden succulents.
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Justine Khamara, Orbital spin trick #4, 2013, UV print on hoop pine, 50x50x50cm.
Pat Brassington, Quiescent, 2014, pigment print, 106x96cm.
PAT BRASSINGTON
8 APRIL - 10 MAY 2014
ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
Pat Brassington is one of Australia’s most highly respected and influential artists working in photo-media. Through her ongoing practice, informed by Surrealism, Brassington’s work delves into the uncanny and the curious effect ambiguity has on interpretation.
Seemingly innocent, her images open up like a flower, gorgeous and dream-like, then morph into a psychological Rorschach. Here, the endless possibilities of our complex inner states - narratives of sex, memory and identity - run quietly rampant.
Pat has said of her most recent works: ‘I aim to pitch my images just off the verge of normality, into those dense patches where the commonplace goes awry.’
This selection of works is classically provocative and ambiguous in nature; striking, beautiful and superbly loaded.
In 2013 Brassington won the prestigious Monash Gallery of Art Bowness Photography Prize. In 2012 she was honored with a major nationally touring survey of her work, A Rebours, by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA). Brassington’s work has also featured extensively in major exhibitions, including the Adelaide Biennale Parallel Colisions (2012); Feminism Never Happened at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2010); the Biennale of Sydney (2004); a major solo retrospective at the Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne (2002); World Without End - Photography and the 20th Century at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2000) and Fotokunst Aus Australien, Berlin (2000), curated by Bernice Murphy.
Selected recent solo exhibitions include Pat Brassington at Ten Cubed, Melbourne (2014); In search of the marvellous at CAST Gallery, Hobart (2013); a survey exhibition at the Lönnstrom Art Museum, Finland (2008).
Pat Brassington’s work is held in many public collections including the Art Gallery of NSW, Queensland Art Gallery, National Gallery of Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Tarrawarra Musuem of Art and ArtBank.
For all enquiries please contact Annabel Holt at ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne.
Chinese Australian artist GUO JIAN will be appearing on Q&A's debut show in Shanghai on Monday April 7 2014 . The live broadcast will feature a panel including Dr. Geoff Ruby, former Australian Ambassador to China, and will cover a range of current political and cultural relations between the two countries.
Broadcast: 6:30-8:30 pm Monday April 7 2014 on ABC 1
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MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO's latest commission, Sandstone Pollen, will soon be unveiled at the new Darling Harbour precinct in 2016.
This major public artwork – a series of unique sandstone pollen sculptures – was inspired by the diversity of pollen microfossils that were found in Darling Harbour, and were later identified by palynionologist Mike Macphail.
Her ‘pollen morphologies’, combining scientific research and beautiful, complex forms, will be placed under and near a variety of tall trees along the Boulevard Walk, invoking conversation about the story of evolution, of sexual reproduction and the generation of formal beauty.
In collaboration with two local stone masonries, each pollen grain will be 3-D modelled using the latest digital software, then carved in sandstone using a computerized milling robotic arm.
Cardoso’s works will synthesise thought about the story of place and life as it was and as it is at Darling Harbour and Cockle Bay.
Robert Owen, Fallen Light A, 2012, stainless steel, 105x115x170cm.
ROBERT OWEN is participating in The Gathering II: A Survey of Australian Sculpture, at Wangaratta Art Gallery with his sculpture Fallen Light A (2012). The exhibition is curated by Dianne Mangan and opens on Saturday 15 March at Wangaratta Art Gallery.
Exhibition dates: 8 March – 11 May 2014
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Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Where There is No One, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 100x120cm.
PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT has published an essay Catching the moment, one step at a time in a book titled Asia Though Art and Anthropology: Cultural Translation Across Boarders. Suwannakudt's essay expands on the artist’s experience during her residency at the Womanifesto International in Thailand in 2008.
The book is edited by Fuyubi Nakumara, Morgan Perkins and Olivier Krishner, and published by Bloomsbury Academic.
Guan Wei, Up in the Clouds No. 5, 2012, bronze, 52x32x24.
GUAN WEI is participating in The Gathering II: A Survey of Australian Sculpture curated by Dianne Mangan, with his sculpture Up in the clouds No. 5. The exhibition opens on Saturday 15 March at Wangaratta Art Gallery.
Exhibition dates: 8 March – 11 May 2014
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NIKE SAVVAS has unveiled a huge installation at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Rally, 18 March to 22 June 2014. The 50m long work, rippling with colourful bunting, will span across the ceiling of the grand entrance court of the institution.
The exhibition's title, Rally, plays upon the physically immersive nature of a parade or protest. Savvas' work is inspired by the vibrant paintings of the post-Impressionists as well as the cheap exuberance of discount plastics and decorations. It consists of 60,000 strips of coloured plastic and stretches more than 50 metres through the ‘main street’ entrance of the iconic institution.
It is one of the largest individual works ever to be staged at the AGNSW.
To read the Sydney Morning Herald's interview with Savvas, click here.
DANI MARTI is currently exhibiting in the 2014 Adelaide Biennial, Dark Heart. His series of suspended sculptures are now on display in his installation Armour. These works, woven in synthetic rope, leather and industrial rubber, were inspired by the artist’s viewing of Samurai armour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Included in Armour are a selection of etchings from Goya’s Los Caprichos, provoking a dialogue between the two artists of Spanish descent and their engagement with the world in which they live.
The 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art taps into the hearts and minds of the nation – probing the personal, political and psychological dimensions of contemporary Australia. It explores Australia’s cultural identity through the lens of some of Australia’s leading contemporary artists.
Dark Heart presents twenty-eight contemporary Australian artists and collectives, delivering their brave new visions in mediums that include photography, painting, sculpture, installation and the moving image. The issues and ideas explored by the artists encompass intercultural relationships, our ecological fate, gender and political power.
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Find a review of 'Dark Heart' here.
MURRAY FREDERICKS has been selected for the 2014 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award with an image taken at in an abandoned missile detection station on a glacier in Greenland. Fredericks latest project in Greenland resulted in the exhibition Topophilia at ARC ONE Gallery in 2013.
The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award is considered one of the most important annual surveys of contemporary Australian photographic practice and a highlight of Gold Coast City Gallery’s exhibition program. Established photographers are showcased alongside emerging, resulting in a stunning reflection of contemporary practice that examines diverse themes and approaches.
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Sam Shmith, Untitled (Plate Glass #3), 2013, 103.2 x 186 cm, Pigment print, baryta paper.
SAM SHMITH has been selected for the 2014 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award with his digital photograph Untitled (Plate Glass #3), 2013.
The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award is considered one of the most important annual surveys of contemporary Australian photographic practice and a highlight of Gold Coast City Gallery’s exhibition program. Established photographers are showcased alongside emerging, resulting in a stunning reflection of contemporary practice that examines diverse themes and approaches.
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NIKE SAVVAS has been reviewed extensively in the wake of her exhibition Sparks at ARC ONE Gallery and her installation Rally at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Read some of them below.
Raven Contemporary, by Dan Rule.
Vogue Living, by Dijana Kumurdian.
The Melbourne Review, by Suzanne Fraser.
For further information please contact Annabel Holt at mail@arc1gallery.com
Pat Brassington, The flight of the Duchess, 2013, pigment print, 83 x 120 cm
A beautiful selection of PAT BRASSINGTON's work is currently on show at Ten Cubed Collection, a private collection, open to the public and situated in Melbourne's Glen Iris.
Pat Brassington is one of Australia's most highly respected, established and influential photo-media artists, with works in the collections of leading institutions across Australia. The exhibition includes recent works from Brassington’s practice, as well as the iconic work A Heartbeat Away, presenting an exquisite selection of her continuing aesthetic as informed by Surrealism. Brassington’s work delves into the uncanny and the abject, conveying an ever-present sexuality, ensconced in a cinematic dream-like state.
Ten Cubed Collection is a private collection, open to the public, where an evolving top ten selection of contemporary artists represented by Australian and New Zealand galleries are collected and exhibited in depth over ten years.
Address: Ten Cubed Collection, 1489 Malvern Rd, Glen Iris, Vic 3146
Exhibition dates: 18 February - 3 May 2014
Opening Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 10 to 4pm
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For all enquiries other than Ten Cubed, please contact Annabel Holt at mail@arc1gallery.com
NIKE SAVVAS is exhibiting a newly commissioned installation at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) from 18 March to 22 June 2014.
The exhibition's title, Rally, plays upon the physically immersive nature of a parade or protest. Her work is inspired by the vibrant paintings of the post-Impressionists as well as the cheap exuberance of discount plastics and decorations. It consists of 60,000 strips of coloured plastic and stretches more than 50 metres through the ‘main street’ entrance of the iconic institution.
It will be one of the largest individual works ever to be staged at the AGNSW.
For more information click here.