CYRUS TANG and GUAN WEI will have work in the group exhibition Closing the Distance, curated by Sophia Cai, at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre.
The exhibition brings together twelve Australian and international artists to explore contemporary issues of migration, place and the Chinese diaspora within Australia and beyond.
Exhibition dates are 11 February to 30 April 2017.
Guan Wei, Land of the Dreaming No. 5, 2014, ceramic, 41 x 30cm.
Virgin Australia Voyeur, December 2016, No. 185, p 109.
Guan Wei is featured in the latest issue of Virgin Australia's in-flight magazine Voyeur.
The magazine asked four influential creatives to talk about the destinations that have shaped their work. GUAN WEI's destination of choice was Coastal Australia.
"My work often looks at land borders and themes of migration, so I have found three elements of the Australian landscape — the sea, beach and islands — very meaningful. I'm drawn to the power of the Australian landscape and its borders in ancient terms as well as in terms of Indigenous and contemporary issues. There's an extraordinary paradox between freedom and closed borders."
You can download issue No.185, featuring the article here.
Dani Marti, DOT (Lime green - take 1) [detail], 2016, corner cube reflectors and glass beads on galvanised steel frame, 60 x 60 x 15 cm.
The Gallery will be closed from 18 December 2016 and will reopen on 24 January 2017.
Our current exhibition In the White Square will continue until 4 February, followed by Guo Jian's The Encroachment, 7 February - 11 March 2017.
Thank you to all our friends and supporters for a wonderful year. We wish you a very bright, safe and fun-filled festive season.
ROBERT OWEN APPOINTED CURATORIAL ADVISOR FOR UNIVERSITY SQUARE
PUBLIC ART MELBOURNE
Congratulations to Robert Owen who has been appointed to lead the City of Melbourne's reimagining of University Square in Carlton.
Following a national open call, Owen was appointed as the Public Art Curatorial Adviser for the $8.8 million redevelopment, which commences in 2017. His creative vision for the project references the site’s rich and diverse associations, the process of change and the transformative journey of education.
Webb Bridge, 2003. Artist: Robert Owen, in collaboration with architects Denton Corker Marshall Pty Ltd. For the Docklands Authority, Melbourne, Australia, Photography: John Gollings.
Peter Daverington, Arcadia (still), 2012, high definition single channel blue-ray video, 9mins.
PETER DAVERINGTON is presenting a solo exhibition at the Minhang Mass Art Centre in Shanghai.
Before the Apocalypse opens 7 December 2017.
Robert Owen, Pink & Grey Wall, 1978, drymounted inkjet print, 72 x 47 cm.
ARC ONE Gallery is delighted to present In the White Square, a group exhibition exploring themes of new abstraction curated by Laura Lantieri. An opening reception will be held on Saturday 10 December, 4-6pm.
Showcasing the work of five Australian contemporary artists well-known for their use of abstraction as a primary visual language, In the White Square features Robert Owen, Jacky Redgate and Lydia Wegner, alongside invited artists Caleb Shea and Gemma Smith. Across a dynamic mix of sculpture and photo- based media, the artists in this exhibition are drawn together by a shared emphasis on formal concerns such as colour, form, space, light, optics and geometry.
The exhibition draws its title from two of the 20th century’s great pioneers of abstract art – Vasily Kandinsky’s In the Black Square (1923), and Kasimir Malevich’s White on White (1918) – while referring obliquely to the ‘white cube’ exhibition space that came to rise in the last century. Situated in the formerly industrial, oblong ‘white cube’ of ARC ONE Gallery, In the White Square also considers the ways in which these artists employ abstraction in the context of a broader historical trajectory.
Variously touching on constructivism, minimalism, and hard-edge painting among other influences, the works blend a pared minimal aesthetic with a more idiosyncratic and playful touch. They invite the viewer to decipher lines, contours, surface textures and reflections in an almost puzzle-solving process, while blocks of colour activate spaces and pulse, oscillating between real and inferred depths of field. Challenging our understanding of what we see and what we know through an eye-popping agenda of geometry, colour and form, the artists of In the White Square collectively interrogate the very act of viewing.
Please note ARC ONE Gallery will be closed from 18 December 2016 and reopen 24 January 2017.
Gemma Smith is represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, & Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
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