As part of the exhibition PEEKSKILL PROJECT V - PETER DAVERINGTON's new video work Arcadia (2012) is currently on view at Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York. The exhibition will be open until 13 February.
DANI MARTI
DANI MARTI is included in the new extensive curatorial project and exhibition entitled ECONOMY opening at Stills, Edinburgh, and at CCA, Glasgow on 26 Jan 2013.
Two parallell exhibitions make the core of the project that examines why, and how, art since the 1990s has revealed the economy to be the axis of contemporary existence.
ECONOMY Features works of over 40 international artists, a website as well as the forthcoming volume from the Liverpool University Press entitled ECONOMY: Art and the Subject after Postmodernism.
Read more from e-flux here.
Project website.
The exhibitions will be open until 21 April this year.
VANILA NETTO
VANILA NETTO: ONE TWO THREE OBLIVION
30 January – 2 March 2013
Opening: Thursday 31 January, 5:30-7:30pm
ARC ONE Gallery is pleased to present: One Two Three Oblivion - VANILA NETTO's third solo exhibition at the gallery.
In the exhibition the artist presents fifteen photographic images and a neon sculpture. The disregarded, overlooked and transitory associations between the self, time and environmentally ruinous modes of consumption are captured within Netto’s presentation of space and form. Through Netto’s eye, these arrested objects and scenes are momentarily liberated from transience, provoking questions of consumption and obsolescence, constant themes evidenced throughout her work.
In the work Once in a Lifetime (2012), the height of Netto’s body (165cm) is traced in neon then separated into two parts to form circular shapes, metaphorically encapsulating the historic and unique eclipse of Venus over the Sun that occurred in June 2012. The circular motif of the eclipse repeats itself throughout One Two Three Oblivion in both its literal and symbolically powerful form, as generated by human consciousness throughout the ages. A collapse in the time-space continuum is captured, the self faced with the catalyst of the awe-inspiring eclipse and the workings of the universe, time, distance and space. This work expands on concerns initiated with The Artist as Luminous Source (2010), a single neon spiral measuring what Netto articulates as: ‘as long as I am tall.’
Netto’s practice includes photography, sculpture, drawing and video, referencing Modernist design and architecture, nature, science fiction and technology. The re-utilisation of ordinary objects is a reoccurring theme in Netto’s work; expressing personal anxieties in reaction to mass consumerism and the increasingly catastrophic exploitation of all the things we share. The shift between indoor studio scenes, cool landscapes, stark architectural forms and technological artifacts encourage the viewer to question our relationship with the environment and our lifestyles of material obsolescence.
Born 1963, Salvador, Brazil, Vanila Netto lives and works in Amsterdam. Winner of the 2006 Australian Photographic Portrait Prize and a commended finalist for the 2005 Helen Lempriere Travelling Scholarship, Netto has exhibited locally and internationally for over ten years. She is included in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artbank, UBS Melbourne, and Deloitte, Sydney. Selected exhibitions include: Time and Vision, Bargerhouse Oxo Tower, Southbank, London, 2012; Open Atelier Paintings – New Works, 1800 Roeden Atelier 0.15 Hal B, Amsterdam, 2012; Project February 29th 2012, Kunsthale Hannover, Germany, 2012; In Advance, UTS Gallery, Sydney, 2010; The Isolated Object, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007; Perfect for Every Occasion: Photography Today, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2007; Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art: 21st Century Modern, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2006 and 2004: Australian Culture Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2004.
For all enquiries, please contact Annabel Holt at mail@arc1gallery.com
ISABELLE RUDOLPH: DESAFINADO
30 January – 16 February 2013
Opening: Thursday 31 January, 5:30-7:30pm
Desafinado is Isabelle Rudolph’s debut exhibition (as the recipient of the 2011 ARC ONE Gallery/Monash Award for High Achievement) at ARC ONE Gallery. An installation comprised of a large central sculpture and twelve paintings, exploring foreign scenes and memory of place. Rudolph’s central sculpture, Compass (2013) is an assemblage of hard rubbish—cupboards and furniture salvaged from the streets of Melbourne. This reflects Rudolph’s exploration of the potentiality of discarded items as new and appropriated architectural forms. Positioned in the centre of the gallery, the openings and closings of the draws and doors point to multiple worlds and destinations. The twelve paintings are positioned at the circumference of the sculpture and the landscapes depicted in the paintings correlate to the points of the compass.
For Rudolph, the installation draws on a longing for stability and a sense of worth in life; but of knowing the impossibility of such solace, thus discovering a beauty within imperfection.
Desafinado is inspired by architecture discovered on Rudolph’s travels—the extravagant domed religious and state structures contrasted with domestic dwellings such as the squats of Europe’s Roma and the favelas of Brazil. Compass reflects these two aesthetics: drawing its composition from one, material and process from the other. Rudolph’s practice engages in how the refiguring process can make the familiar appear exotic and the discarded beautiful—without denying the object’s status as refuse.
For all enquiries, please contact Annabel Holt at mail@arc1gallery.com
GUAN WEI / MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO / JANET LAURENCE
RECENT ACQUISITIONS
ARC ONE are pleased to announce the following acquisitions:
--NGV acquires Guan Wei--
The National Gallery of Victoria has just acquired two of Guan Wei’s Up in the Cloud sculptures—Up in the Clouds #1 (2012) and Up in the Clouds #2 (2012). As a continuation of Guan Wei's sell-out Cloud sculptures of 2009, Up in the Clouds are a series of dark bronze sculptures. The cloud, as a symbol of liberty, features prominently throughout his practice. Up in the Clouds portrays gentle figures playfully interacting with their cloud. The harmony between body and form alludes to the transience and freedom of nature.
--NGA acquires Maria Fernada Cardoso and Janet Laurence--
The National Gallery of Australia have recently acquired works by Maria Fernanda Cardoso and Janet Laurence.
The works by Maria Fernanda Cardoso are a set of nine sculptures from her Intromitent Organs Sculptures (2008-2009) series. These works were exhibited as part of the Museum of Copulatory Organs (2012) at the Sydney Biennale 2012.
Janet Laurence’s film Sanctuaried from AFTER EDEN (2012) is compiled from footage taken at an elephant sanctuary in Aceh, Indonesia, and a panda sanctuary in Chengdu, China. Lost and endangered worlds - and the creatures in them - are the subject of Laurence’s After Eden project.
Congratulations to Maria, Guan Wei and Janet.
SAM SHMITH
SAM SHMITH WINS MACQUARIE GROUP EMERGING ART PRIZE
ARC ONE are pleased to announce SAM SHMITH as the winner of the inaugural Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize. Dr. Michael Brand selected Sam’s work Untitled (In Spates 7), 2011 as the winning artwork. The prize includes $10,000 and the acquisition of the work into the Macquarie Group collection.
Congratulations Sam!
NIKE SAVVAS
Nike Savvas
Liberty and Anarchy @ Leeds Art Gallery, UK
In her first UK solo exhibition for more than a decade, Nike Savvas transforms the two rooms of the gallery.
In the first room, a large scale moire installation fills the room. 18 large screens which hold hundreds of individually placed, taut plastic, brightly coloured ribbons. This large-scale installation incorporates panels fixed from the floor to the ceiling, allowing audiences to walk amongst the colourful ‘cascade’ of panelled ribbons and view the alternating, shimmering colours from all sides. The second room incorporates Savvas's sliding ladder works and paintings.
Please see the video link from the Yorkshire Post here.
Exhibition will be showing to 24 February 2013.
Leeds Art Gallery
The Headrow, Leeds, UK
7 December 2012 to 24 February 2013.
Image copyright Jonty Wilde.
PAT BRASSINGTON
Pat Brassington, This is Not the Right Way Home, 2003.
PAT BRASSINGTON in LOUISE BOURGEOIS AND AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS @ HEIDE
Don't miss ARC ONE artist PAT BRASSINGTON in the current exhibition at Heide Museum of Art. After the recent survey exhibition at ACCA and inclusion in many group exhibitions, Brassington's work will be examined in light of the practice of Louise Bourgeois.
This exhibition looks at the relationships between ten Australian artists and the art of american artist Louise Bourgeois.
For more information, click here.
Curated by Linda Michael
Heide II
HEIDE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
7 Templestowe Road
Bulleen, VIC.
Open Tuesday-Sunday 10am-5pm
Closed Mondays
T (03) 9850 1500
info@heide.com.au
MURRAY FREDERICKS
Murray Fredericks, SALT 199.
MURRAY FREDERICKS in GEOMORPHOMETRIES: CONTEMPORARY TERRAIN: QCP.
Don't miss Murray Fredericks in Geomorphometries: contemporary terrain exhibition at QCP in Brisbane which ends this Sunday 25th November, 2012.
Check out the review in le Journal de la Photographie by Alison Stieven-Taylor here.
Geomorphometries: Contemporary Terrains
Queensland Centre for Photography
Cnr. Cordelia & Russell Sts
South Brisbane
Until 25 November, 2012.
NIKE SAVVAS
Nike Savvas, Sliding Ladder.
ARC ONE artist Nike Savvas will be presenting her first UK solo exhibition for more than a decade: Liberty and Anarchy at Leeds Art Gallery in the UK.
The exhibition includes her small scale works and a large scale vibrant installation created especially for Leeds Art Gallery. A central installation, Liberty and Anarchy will take over the largest gallery and will involve 18 large screens which hold hundreds of individually placed, taut plastic, brightly coloured ribbons. This large-scale installation will incorporate panels fixed from the floor to the ceiling, allowing audiences to walk amongst the colourful ‘cascade’ of panelled ribbons and view the alternating, shimmering colours from all sides. Exhibition will be showing from 7 December 2012 to 24 February 2013.
Leeds Art Gallery
The Headrow, Leeds, UK
7 December 2012 to 24 February 2013.
DANI MARTI
DANI MARTI: MONOGRAPH LAUNCH
ARC ONE is pleased to announce the launch of Dani Marti's first major monograph published by Hatje Cantz. The launch will be held at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney on Saturday December 15th, 2012.
Edited by Matt Price, the monograph contains texts by Morgan Falconer, Kirsten Lloyd, Colin Perry and an interview with the artist by Octavio Zaya.
'Dani Marti is one of Australia’s most exciting artists to have recently emerged to international acclaim, both charming and challenging audiences, curators, and critics alike with his unorthodox combination of hand-woven “canvases” and video documentary. Connecting the two media is the concept of portraiture or, as Marti suggests, its inability to get beneath the surface of family, friends, lovers, and strangers. These psychological, sociological, emotional, and often graphic physical depictions push ethical boundaries, raising difficult questions about relationships, gay encounters, intimacy, and trust while questioning the role of the artist, the power of the video camera, and the cultural politics of the viewer. With his woven works, Marti’s questioning turns to wider notions of portraiture and sexuality in Modernism, Minimalism, and geometric abstraction.' - Matt Price.
This publication is avaliable at ARC ONE Gallery: please email us to place your order:
mail@arc1gallery.com or phone 03 9650 0589.
Marti's monograph will be officially launched by Simon Mordant AM, Chairman of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and Australian Commissioner for 2013 Venice Biennale.
Saturday 15 December, 2pm
Australian Centre for Photography
257 Oxford Street, Paddington.
ROBERT OWEN
Our current exhibition, Robert Owen, Fallen Light, is featured in today's Age newspaper.
ROBERT OWEN
ROBERT OWEN: FALLEN LIGHT 2012 - paintings
13 November - 15 December 2012
Opening: Saturday 17th November, 4-6pm
ARC ONE Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of a new series of paintings by Robert Owen – Fallen Light.
In Fallen Light, the vertical black fields of the portrait abstract paintings—titled Soundings—are intersected by refracted light in yellow, pink, blue, grey, green and brown. Like composed musical notes the colours dance across the canvas. As the light resonates through space, the paintings capture the transition and encounter of the two separate spheres of pure light and pure darkness. The canvas acts as a mediator for references, experiences and transitions—where sensation, colour and movement, interact and come into being.
Owen’s artistic practice approaches the idea of abstraction as an experimentation and artistic examination of the properties and possibilities of ideas and objects. His artwork captures and illustrates distinct natural forces that may not be visible to the human eye. These connections and coexistences—between the physical and metaphysical—are formally expressed as transitions that unite and simultaneously disperse.
As one of Australia’s most highly respected artists, Owen’s practice spans over forty years and includes sculpture, installation, painting, photography and major public commissions.
Owen represented Australia at the 38th Venice Biennale, 1978; was awarded the Australian Council Visual Arts: Crafts Emeritus Award for lifelong service to the visual arts, 2003; and the John Moore’s Liverpool Exhibition 7 UK Prize, 1969. Group exhibitions include: Photographic Abstractions, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, 2012; Contemporary Australia: Optimism, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2008; New Acquisition in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2005; A History of Happiness, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2002; Geometric Abstraction in Australia 1941-1997, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, 1997; Spirit and Place: Art in Australia 1861-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1996-7. Solo exhibitions include: Inside and Out, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, 2007; Different Lights Cast Different Shadows, The 2nd Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004; The Text of Light, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, 2004; Between Shadow and Light – London Works 1966-1975, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 1999. Selected collections include: British Museum, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Olympic Sculpture Park, Korea. Selected public commissions include: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Harry Seidler Building, Sydney; Triptych Development, Southbank, Melbourne; and Webb Bridge, Docklands Melbourne.
NIKE SAVVAS
Nike Savvas monograph Full of Love Full of Wonder has been published by Black Dog Publishing.
Nike Savvas, winner of the prestigious Australia Council Fellowship Grant for Fine Art in 2010, is an artist of both large-scale installation and small-scale works. Drawing her inspiration from a variety of sources, from Op Art through to kitsch, her work often conflates painstakingly crafted detail and complex mathematical algorithms - drawing attention to both the tangible and the abstract at once.
Her objects and installations often invite the viewer to partake in the active experience of her work, by physically shifting, repositioning and refocusing their gaze, in order to unveil ever-changing facets to the works. Her art is never quite ‘stable’, rather Savvas creates tantalising, fluctuating objects that captivate and mesmerise the eye and the mind. Full of Love Full of Wonder is the first monograph on her work.
Born in Sydney, Australia, of Greek-Cypriot parents, and moving to London in the mid-1990s to develop her arts practice, Savvas continues to work between London, Sydney and Nicosia— her artistic identity is therefore an eclectic reflection of her multiple heritages.
The book is currently available through Black Dog Publishing or Amazon.
MCA commission NIKE SAVVAS for LOUIS VUITTON
ARC ONE are pleased to announce the partnership of Louis Vuitton and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Nike Savvas has been commissioned by the MCA to create an installation at the Louis Vuitton George Street store in Sydney.
ROBERT OWEN
ROBERT OWEN's installation Silence in the new Hamer Hall, is featured in Spanish Design Magazine Modaes:
"Swarovski fills Melbourne with the brightness of its crystals. Through its division Elements, the company has signed a partnership agreement with the sculptor Robert Owen that is reflected in the interior of the Hamer Hall in the Arts Centre in Melbourne, Australia.
Suspended from the ceiling at different heights above the main entrance of the Hamer Hall, hangs seven stainless steel sculptures with Swarovski Elements, each unique in geometry and scale.
The installation is called Silence and aims to amplify the audience's experience at a concert and provide a link between the visual and performing arts, adding also the theatrical space. The structures of the creations are completely covered with 62,000 Swarovski Elements."
To read the full article, click here.
GUAN WEI
GUAN WEI
THE ENCHANTMENT
09 October - 10 November 2012
Preview: 4-6pm, Saturday 13 October, 2012
Guan Wei’s artistic practice draws on his own experience as a Chinese national who migrated to Australia from China in 1990—following the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Guan Wei made many changes in the 1990’s. It became a significant time for him in Australia, where he explored cultural relationships among China and Australia, ideas of immigration, colonisation, identity and cultural tolerance, come together to create a fantasy world illustrating his own personal transition between the two cultures. In 2005, he returned to his homeland, this pilgrimage to his native soil mediated a sense of wellbeing, and finally, a sense of place.
Guan Wei is an adept storyteller who masterfully engages his audience. There is fine and gentle nature to Guan Wei and his artistic practice. The gentleness manifests in his own questioning and enquiry of his creative world. The Enchantment, a series of twelve paintings, and Up in the Clouds, a series of five bronze sculptures, retains the humour, wisdom and cross-cultural exploration that have become characteristic of his oeuvre.
In The Enchantment, the artist as magician plays his hand to the allure and power of art. In this imagined new world, the ‘Big Guy’ is the central figure in the paintings. He features as the modern day alchemist, masterfully playing out and watching over scenes of his enchanted universe. In the words of the artist: the passing of time translates the tension and strangeness experienced at the beginning, into maturity, and finally capability. The alchemist has mastered his universe.
As a continuation of his sell-out Cloud sculptures of 2009, Up in the Clouds features a series of dark bronze sculptures. The cloud, as a symbol of liberty, features prominently throughout his practice. Up in the Clouds portrays gentle figures playfully interacting with their cloud. The harmony between body and form alludes to the transience and freedom of nature.
ADAM HILL
ADAM HILL's work Bennelong Had a Point is now part of the permanent collection for the NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA.
This work is a typically witty play on a cultural pun by Adam Hill.
Bennelong Point, the stretch of land where the Sydney Opera House now sits, is the site where Bennelong (a senior man of the Eora Aboriginal (Koori) people) was originally captured by Europeans in an attempt to create ties with the people of the land.
Rather than succumbing entirely to the colonial forces of the Europeans, Bennelong maintained a relationship with these figures, while trying to change the behaviour of Europeans on Aboriginal lands.
He spent many years as an interlocutor for the Europeans, and travelled to London. But did not relinquish his ties to his people or their land. His forethought into the potentially mutual impact that Aboriginal and European peoples could have on one another is...a fair point to be considered.
ADAM HILL
ADAM HILL has been accepted as a finalist for the Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize. This is an acquisitive prize to recognise the achievements of NSW aboriginal artists.
It will culminate in an exhibition at Parliament House from 4-25 October, with the winner of the prize announced on October 17.
Adam has also been making new works in collaboration with 'Will Coles'. These works will be exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, which will run from 18 October - 4 November
ROBBIE ROWLANDS
ROBBIE ROWLANDS: Place of Assembly, Melbourne Festival
As part of this year's Melbourne Festival, Robbie Rowlands is among 11 guest artists who will create site specific works to acknowledge the closing of a vital chapter at the Abbotsford Convent's community life after 120 years.
Official opening Wednesday 10 October, 6pm
Abbotsford Convent.
More Information.
PAT BRASSINGTON
PAT BRASSINGTON interview with ACCA
In this interview, produced by ACCA in connection with her current exhibition at the gallery, PAT BRASSINGTON speaks about beauty, colour, source material and her work in Á Rebours at ACCA.
You can watch the interview here.