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.