Circling the ‘SQUARED’ exhibition at Yuill Crowley Gallery, it’s the works not confined to a square that prove to be the showstoppers. ‘Rotation’ in particular is the sort of work you want to take home to gaze at every day, allowing the rich orange and grey to appear in new ways across each hour, as …
One enters the dim-lit exhibition space where ‘Space Vessel’ is placed. It’s bullet-like bronze form is intimate in scale and placed elevated on a plinth, in an untouchable realm beneath a clear case. Not until you are at arm’s length do you realise it is two “fallen churches” joined at the base to create …
‘Radical’ is a word often used to describe Conceptual artist Bernar Venet’s works. Yet so many pieces carry enduring appeal, perhaps due to the timeless visual language underpinned by themes of mathematics, science, music and philosophy. Internationally renowned, this enigmatic appeal has rewarded him with numerous enviable opportunities to showcase work, even under the Eiffel …
‘An optical allegory conveying us beyond the solid form’ Andrew Rogers. Poetry should exist beyond paper, and art is the perfect platform. Andrew Rogers is an established Australian sculptor and land artist working with predominantly stainless steel and bronze to create large scale pieces for public art spaces. This ‘Embrace’ in stainless steel is aptly …
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I’m spellbound by Semiconductor’s Where Shapes Come From 2016, their hypnotic Two-channel HD video. Raw seismic data becomes sound controlled animation, combined with narration as a lab tech prepares samples, filmed in a lab at Washington’s Smithsonian It was showing for Biennale of Sydney at The Art Gallery of NSW. It’s possible to watch this 8 minute …
Lost in the layered, labyrinthine story behind Riet Wijnen’s Sculptuur Sixteen Conversations on Abstraction? Let’s attempt to uncode it’s connected concept: a conversation. The conversation’s script is imagined. Fiction. But it’s existence is very real. You’d have discovered this by attending a related event, a Performative Reading at the Art Gallery of NSW. The Performative … Continue reading
Celebrating your 21st birthday and having 45 years experience is something we’d all like…right? Who doesn’t want to be a young, fun, carefree optimist with 45 years of wits? Well, Biennale of Sydney 2018 has just that. The only dilemma: how does one choose the guest list for a 21st soirée, when prior parties have … Continue reading
Without inspiration lit by a trailblazing muse, one’s heart’d be a cold and artless place. So I was horrified as I read Nikki Gemmell’s ‘We are not a muse’ column in Australian Life magazine this weekend, as she proclaimed the word muse: ‘implies, let’s be clear: passivity, naivety, a silenced voice; objectification of the body’….a … Continue reading
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