The continuing tradition of monochrome (one colour) painting in western art began in the early 20th century. American curator, critic and writer Barbara Rose describes monochrome painting as: ‘simultaneously fullness and void, a moment of silence in a world of noise. It goes nowhere and everywhere, it is specific and universal, tangible and immaterial. It is the ultimate paradox.’
Rose Nolan, Tunnel/Tent Work – HARD BUT FAIR/POINT LESS, 2009 Acrylic paint, hessian, and cotton thread 978 x 106 x 39 inches October 14 – November 12, 2011 Andreas Exner is one of Germany’s most acclaimed contemporary artists and sculptors. Over the course of almost three decades he has constructed a body of work that is both readily familiar and utterly distinctive. Trafficking in the substances of the everyday – the cars, clothes, wardrobes and [...]
To use abstraction as an agent form is a system. To use abstraction to present a position is a system. To use abstraction to reference a context is a system.
Beth Kirkland from Albany WA and Melanie E. Khava from Sydney are presenting individual series of paintings for a collaborative exhibition that addresses distance as the key issue. Real physical distance separates the artists, therefore dialogue was held via email over a six month period.
Installation view. In this work Halnan is revisiting concepts and materials she was exploring in the making of quite large scale ephemeral works in the years 1995 – 2001. She defined these works (Books I – III, Dumbbell, Wavelength etc.) as “installed constructions” as they were fabricated within the constraints of certain particular spaces or environments, and relied to a large extent on these environments for their form. To this extent they were site specific [...]
Justin Andrews, For Malevich, 2011 Mixed media construction on enamel on MDF July 20 – August 5, 2011
Roland Orépük, Tiny Cut Paintings, 2011 Acrylic on cardboard, 9 parts 3 x 6 x 1 inches July 13-23, 2011 The Tiny Cut Paintings follow the Engraved Monochromes resuming the use and implementation of the same principles to hold a more intimate dialogue with the supporting cardboard. Here, each of the nine triptychs is built on a base made of three yellow over white modules, perfectly identical, cloning, repetition and difference.
Oscar Yanez, Aoyama, 2010 Oil on canvas 60 x 60 inches June 15 – August 6, 2011 Organised by Giles Ryder, Manifold is a fascinating snapshot of significant contemporary art being done in Australia today. Featuring the work of Cathy Blanchflower, Scott Chaseling, Helga Groves, Billy Gruner, Jeremy Kibel, Andrew Leslie, Jordan Spedding, Giles Ryder, and Oscar Yanez.
Installation view. The Australian Center for Concrete Art presents Daniel Göttin: AC4CA Project 18. This project, part of a series of wall paintings throughout Western Australia by artists from around the world, is located at the Barker Street Carpark in Perth.
Work by Daniel Göttin. April 2 – May 1, 2011 SNO Contemporary Art Projects presents two exhibitions – Daniel Göttin: Panorama 2, and Gerda Maise: Spots 2011, in Sydney, Australia.
Installation view. April 16 – May 14, 2011 Tomislav Nikolic’s paintings have always presented centralized fields of colour. In this current series of twelve works the centre is built up by several layers of transparent washes of marble dust and pigment that coalesce into a deep yet luminous colour-field. At the edges of these washes, the colours separate into fine lines, dribbles, strokes, and zips of colour that subtly reveal the underside of the surface [...]
Daniel Göttin, Sketch for installation with colored felt pieces in corners, on edges and doors 12 x 12 cm each April 21 – May 14, 2011 Since 1990, Daniel Göttin has been examining the interaction between material, space, and visual appearance. He has conceived and developed his space installations according to the information that the given spatial situation offers. His interest is in the equal dialogue between the already existing and a specific intervention. This [...]
Sydney Ball, Infinex Lumina #6, 2010 Acrylic on canvas 65 x 102 inches April 7-24, 2011 The Infinex Series The works are an orchestration of individual shapes that are related to each other in various combinations in a contemporary context. Infinite is a word I associate as a title with “boundless possibilities, light, means, quality”. Like my modular / installation works of 1968 these new modular shapes again use the negative background wall space but [...]
Matthew Gerber, Rala Rala, 2007 Oil on canvas 75 x 118 inches February 12 – June 19, 2011 This exhibition brings together nine paintings and sculptures by contemporary artists to create a colourful, eclectic and texturally diverse display.The idea of the bazaar is loosely invoked to suggest a place of richness and variety, where visual ideas are exchanged. The works contrast with and complement each other through their formal as well as conceptual qualities and [...]
Trevor Richards, Big Twister, 2010 Acrylic on canvas 55 x 55 inches March 3-26, 2011 Trevor Richards lives and works in Fremantle, Western Australia. His practice over the past thirty years has encompassed painting, sculpture, video, photography and installation. In the past decade he has shown work extensively in Europe. “In Richards’s work, the mixing of abstraction, everyday objects and site-specificity has long addressed the relationship between human experience and place. Historical context is also [...]
Adrian Clement, Drawing No. 29 from Purple and Green Drawings Volume 1 10 x 8 inches February 24 – March 19, 2011 The first volume of Purple and Green Drawings were made using an iPad shortly after its release in 2010. The application used for drawing is called C64 and presents a number of restrictions, including a reduced color palette and rectangular as opposed to square pixels, giving the works a vintage video-game quality. Approximately [...]
Margaret Roberts, Sunliner Seat Base (sink-side) Unprimed canvas 39 x 54 inches February 24 – March 5, 2011 Live in Your Art 2 The work uses the fixtures of the Sunliner caravan normally parked behind the Factory 49 showroom to make hybrid forms that acknowledge both their space of origin and the art space for which they are made. The caravan cupboards, bench, seat bases, wardrobe and water-tank are opened-out into the flat shapes typical [...]
February 24 – March 19, 2011 Internationally famous Swiss artist Beat Zoderer returns to Australia and together with one of Sydney’s leading artists A.D.S. Donaldson they have installed ‘Working’ at thirtyseven degrees – Contemporary Fine Art Gallery. Beat Zoderer, who both, radically reworks readymade materials, often transforming everyday objects from a wide range of cultures into startling works of art is at the same time a sensitive and spectacular sculptor in the more formal sense. [...]
February 5 - March 12, 2011
MINUS SPACE is delighted to announce the exhibition Kyle Jenkins: Sunken Treasure. This is the Australian artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States and it will feature a new site-specific painting installation.
Installation view. February 3-26,2011 The artworks in COLOUR light TIME celebrate complexity, transience, and the contingent nature of being. They off er us a range of approaches whilst engaging us with our own experiencing, perceiving, understanding, and feeling, and ask us to consider how these processes unfold and develop over time. Through the use of colour and light in time and space, the artworks generate complex responses via physical phenomena (sensation) and symbolic codes (knowledge). [...]
John Adair, installation view Black light & UV sensitive paint Through December 18, 2010
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Tingari Ceremonies at the Side of Pintjun, 1989 Acrylic on canvas 152 x 180 cm November 20, 2010 – March 20, 2011 It is far more than living memory: it is a sensory, non-linear intertwining of past and future, of cause and effect, that distinguishes Australian Aboriginal painting. In Europe these unusual artworks are still largely unknown. The Museum Ludwig will devote attention to them in a large exhibition of approximately fifty paintings [...]
John Aslanidis, Sonic Fragment No. 42, 2010 Oil and acrylic on canvas 66 x 81 cm November 3 – 27, 2010 Since the 1990s, John Aslanidis has been exploring the relationship between sound and vision. In each painting, Aslanidis uses colour and line to create chromatic intensities that resemble the experience of listening to music. Aslanidis is interested in portraying an “optimistic vision”. Aslanidis describes this new series of work as “sonic currents”. He explains: [...]
Installation view October 6-30, 2010 Participating Artists: Justin Andrews, Lynne Eastaway, Sophia Egarchos, Billy Gruner, Suzie Idiens, Kyle Jenkins, Andrew Leslie, Ruark Lewis, Adrian McDonald, Rachel Park, Giles Ryder, Ian Andrews, Masato Takasaka, Sydney Ball, Rolande Souliere & Mattys Gerber
Col Jordan, Mosaic 8 – The Gate Acrylic on canvas 160 x 280 cm October 5-31, 2010 Born in Sydney in 1935, Col Jordan is one of Australia’s foremost abstract artists. In the mid-1960s, he was one of a small group of pioneering artists who introduced hard-edge optical abstraction to Australia, and in 1968 he was included in the seminal exhibition The Field which launched the National Gallery of Victoria’s St Kilda Road campus. Over the [...]
Billy Gruner, Punk Painting – Sound Installation, 2010 October 15 – November 7, 2010 Curated by Billy Gruner of SNO in Sydney, Jan van der Ploeg of PS in Amsterdam and Tilman of CCNOA in Brussels. UND 6 – INTERCONTINENTAL is a group show of international artists exhibiting at Schwartz Gallery working within what could broadly be described as non-objective contemporary art. Organised by artists-curators Tilman, Jan Van der Ploeg and Billy Gruner, it is [...]
Works by Vicente Butron September 23 – October 2, 2010 Vicente Butron artist born in Manila, the Philippines in 1959 migrated to Australia during political upheavals in 1973 attended Sydney College of the Arts from 1981 to 1984 exhibited locally and internationally since the mid-1980s not too many solo exhibitions not too many collections lives in Sydney works whenever he can exhibits when he wants His interest in conceptual art and exhibition practice is evident [...]
Film still with Julian Dashper Starting August 26, 2010, on YouTube, you can view the film My Space, by Simone Horrocks & Richard Flynn with Julian Dashper. Early in 2008, Dashper approached film makers Simone Horrocks and Richard Flynn, with the idea of collaborating on a film project. It was important to Dashper that we remain open to where the filming might take us, but together we agreed that the film in some way would be : ‘A [...]
Marlene Sarroff Disruptive Elements, 2010 Corrugated cardboard, paint August 26 – September 4, 2010 The exhibition, Disruptive Elements, explores the dynamic interconnection between the striated surface space and the smooth surface space. When the smooth space is disturbed interrupted and ruptured by the intervention of cutting peeling and repositioning a process of change brings into being a striated space. The striated space becomes new territory, emerging and, developing a dialogue with the smooth. The smooth [...]
David Thomas, Duration circle (Yellow), 2010 Acrylic on photoprint, 21 x 29.7 cm August 12-28, 2010
Daniel Göttin, Untitled, 2008 (detail) Adhesive tape on anodized aluminium August 14 – September 29, 2010
Richard van der Aa, Reasons to be cheerful: Paris winter series no.13, 2009 Acrylic on paper, 19 x 24 cm August 12-21, 2010 One of the streams in Richard van der Aas work of recent years is an ongoing series of paintings entitled Reasons to be cheerful. The Reasons to be cheerful paintings have been realised in a variety of forms and scales. From the tiny aluminium tablets which were shown throughout the Christchurch Art [...]
Works from the 25 – 25 IS (2010) on the floor at SNO (l to r, t to b) Tilman, Tallman, Heerkens, Hallard, Hsiao, Arts, Voskuil, Winkler, Andrews, Roux, Dahlhausen, Van Der Graaf, Deleget, Van Der Aa August 7-29, 2010 Solo Installations Guido Winkler & Iemke van Dijk 25 -25 IS Box The 25 – 25 IS box contains work of 25 artists at 25 x25 cm. The edition consists of 75 boxes. Available at [...]
Christoph Dahlhausen, Study for intervention, 2010 July 31 – October 31, 2010 Curator: Lesley Harding This project by Christoph Dahlhausen (Germany) and David Thomas (Australia), their second collaboration, takes the form of a series of minimalist and subtle interventions in the transitory spaces and often overlooked zones at Heide. Employing a range of materials—paint, mirror, reflective metals, vinyl, colour and light—within the site and architecture of the Museum, the artists encourage active looking and engagement [...]
Julian Dashper ‘Untitled (I’m Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue #10), 2010 (detail) Acrylic paint on wall Each dot 8mm in diameter placed 60cm apart Opens July 9, 2010 Work by Julian Dashper, Victoria Munro, Kyle Jenkins and replica furtniture of Donald Judd Location: Attic Contemporary Art Space 264 Margaret Street, Toowoomba, Qld, 4350
John Nixon, Nine Colour Flag 2009 Enamel on MDF 45 x 60 cm Friday, June 25, 2010, 1pm At this screening John Nixon will introduce Colour-Rhythm Films 2006-2008 and The Donkey’s Tail: Ad Hoc Blues (Seven Short Silver Films) 2008, both of which are extensions of his polychrome and silver paintings. There will be a brief introduction in which the artist will discuss both films in the context of his broader ideas of art, his [...]
