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Exhibition: ‘European Masters: Städel Museum 19th – 20th Century’, Winter Masterpieces at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Posted on Friday, June 18, 2010 at 1:52 am.

Exhibition dates: 19th June – 10th October 2010 . A huge posting – and another ‘you saw it here first’ on Art Blart! A simple, spacious hang shows off some wonderfully vibrant paintings in the new Winter Masterpieces blockbuster at the NGV. The use of strong yellow and pale grey wall colour compliments the paintings. Conversely, other rooms have a dark brown and very dark grey wall colour. Some people will like the effect but I found the dark grey a little too sombre and heavy in the room dedicated to the work of Max Beckmann. Overall a fantastic range of paintings, especially ...

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Melbourne’s Magnificent Dozen 2009

Posted on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 9:54 pm.

. 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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Review: ‘Tacita Dean’ at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne

Posted on Monday, July 20, 2009 at 7:16 pm.

Exhibition dates: 6th June – 2nd August, 2009 . Photographs from the exhibition are in the chronological order that they appear. . . Tacita Dean ‘Grobsteingrab (floating)’ 2009 . . Tacita Dean ‘T & I’ (Tristan & Isolde) 2006 . . Tacita Dean ‘Totality’ 16mm colour film 2000 . . “The subjects are connected to the medium I use. It’s all about light and time and phenomena to some extent, like a rainbow or a gust of wind or even an eclipse or a green ray, things like that. And this is the language of light. It’s not the language of binary pixels.” Tacita Dean1 . “The value of her [Dean's] work, writes Winterson, is one of the virtues of art itself: it is ...

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Exhibition: ‘LE MONDE v. DER MOND’ by Matthew Hale at The Narrows, Melbourne

Posted on Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 7:40 pm.

Exhibition dates: 18th June – 11th July, 2009 . Many thankx to Warren from The Narrows for supplying and allowing me to use images 1, 2 and 4. Photographs 1, 2 and 4 are © Tobias Titz 2009. . . Installation view of ‘LE MONDE v. DER MOND’ by Matthew Hale at The Narrows, Melbourne . . Matthew Hale ‘Page 150 of MIRIAM DIVORCEE’ (detail) 2008 . . Below is the only text I could find on the work – some of which was displayed in London earlier this year. . “DER MOND v LE MONDE is Mathew Hale’s first solo exhibition in London for five years. It consists of five works: one two-projector and one ...

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