. Here’s my pick of the twelve best exhibitions in Melbourne for 2009 that featured on the Art Blart blog (in no particular order) – and a few honorable mentions that very nearly made the list! . . 1/ ‘The Water Hole’ by Gerda Steiner and Jorg Lenzlinger at ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art) . . Gerda Steiner and Jorg Lenzlinger ‘The Water Hole’ 2009 . “The most effective bed has a small meteorite suspended in a net bag above it. The viewer slides underneath the ‘rock’ placing the meteorite about a foot or so above your face. The meteorite is brown, dark and heavy, swinging slightly above your ‘third ...
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Exhibition dates: 28th August – 21st February 2010 . . Max Pam born Australia 1949, lived in Brunei 1980–83 Road from Bamiyan 1971 gelatin silver photograph 20.1 x 20.1 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, 1979 . . Max Pam born Australia 1949, lived in Brunei 1980–83 My donkey, our valley, Sarchu 1977 gelatin silver photograph 20.1 x 20.1 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, 1979 © Max Pam . . Max Pam born Australia 1949, lived in Brunei 1980–83 Sisters 1977 gelatin silver photograph 20.1 x 20.1 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, 1979 © Max Pam . . Max Pam born Australia 1949, lived in Brunei 1980–83 Tibetan nomads 1977 gelatin silver photograph 20.1 x 20.2 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, 1979 © Max Pam . . ‘Long Distance Vision’ is a disappointingly wane exploration ...
Exhibition dates: 22nd July – 15th August, 2009 . . Sarah Amos ‘Red Walk’ Collagraph and Monoprint 2009 . . Sarah Amos ‘Storm Loading’ Etching and hand drawing on Shiramine Japanese paper 2009 . . . Installation views of ‘Intersections’ by Sarah Amos at Gallery 101, Melbourne . . An interesting exhibition of Collagraphs (a type of collage printmaking)1 and etchings is presented by Sarah Amos at Gallery 101, Melbourne, work that is full of delicate coloured layering, topographical mapping and nodal, rhizomic and Spirogyra-type structures. The ‘flux’ of the work, it’s musical cadence if you like, is the fusion of palimpsestic markings as viewed from the air – the dotted contours, the ploughed fields, the beautiful spatial layering that ...
Exhibition dates: 3rd June – 27th June, 2009 . . Josephine Kuperholz ‘Themognatha pascoci’ Woven hand coloured silver gelatin photographic image 2008 . . Josephine Kuperholz presents a beautifully engineered set of photographs in her exhibition ‘Blight’ at Gallery 101, Melbourne. Featuring hand coloured silver gelatin photographs of endangered Australian insects sourced from the Entomology collection of the Victoria Museum Kuperholz literally weaves multiple narratives into the photographs. The execution (an apt word for the circumstances of extinction facing these insects) of these images is fastidious, the weaving superlative, almost clinical. The layering of the photographs disrupts their surface tension. There is a disjunction between the dead specimen and the ...
Exhibition dates: 18th October 2008 – 19th April 2009 “Archives contain elements of truth and error, order and disorder and are infinitely fascinating. As both collections of records and repositories of data, archives are able to shape history and memory depending on how, when and by whom the materials are accessed. Their vastness allows for multiple readings to be unravelled over time. Photography is naturally associated with archives because of its inherent ability to record, store and organise visual images. With this in mind, this exhibition brings together artists drawn largely from the permanent collection of the NGV who explore the idea of ...
