ANNE ZAHALKA - Future Past Present Tense

ANNE ZAHALKA | NEW EXHIBITION

FUTURE PAST PRESENT TENSE
1 March – 6 April 2024
📍Opening: Friday, 1 March, 5.30PM, ARC ONE Gallery
All welcome

This exhibition is presented as part of PHOTO 2024.

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Artificial truths are Anne Zahalka’s preoccupation. Drawn to the constructed aspect of dioramas, Zahalka has spent many years working with the airless logic of museum displays.

In her new exhibition FUTURE PAST PRESENT TENSE, Zahalka inserts the original diorama-makers—scientists, assistants, and illustrators—into the scenes themselves. This meta-narrative gives the dioramas a recursive effect, akin to ‘embalming the embalmer’, like a waxwork of Madame Tussauds.

With a career spanning 40 years, Anne Zahalka is a landmark artist in Australian contemporary art. Her work explores cultural and environmental points of tension, interrogating them with humour and a critical perspective. Appreciated by audiences and curators alike, her work starts conversations.

GUO JIAN and GUAN WEI featured in "In Our Time" at the National Art School, Sydney

GUO JIAN and GUAN WEI shine bright in "IN OUR TIME: FOUR DECADES OF ART FROM CHINA AND BEYOND THE GEOFF RABY COLLECTION" at the National Art School in partnership with La Trobe Art Institute. This exhibition is on display until March 30th.

Over a 35-year period beginning in the mid-1980s, Australian economist and diplomat Dr Geoff Raby AO assembled an outstanding art collection of artworks by more than 75 artists working in both China and in Australia, as members of the Chinese diaspora. "In Our Time" presents a selection of works from this special collection, now part of the La Trobe University Art Collection.

Installation view of “IN OUR TIME: FOUR DECADES OF ART FROM CHINA AND BEYOND THE GEOFF RABY COLLECTION"

CYRUS TANG & JOHN YOUNG Feature in 'Assembly' at ANU

Opening tonight! 🥂 CYRUS TANG and JOHN YOUNG are part of a must-see group exhibition called 'Assembly' at The Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) at ANU from 5:30–7:15pm.

Curated by Dr Olivier Krischer, 'Assembly' brings together eight Hong Kong-born artists from different generations of the diaspora. Amid the current wave of migration, this exhibition explores the act of ‘making sense’ of layers and fragments, of memories and stories, told or untold. 'Assembly' embraces the resonance and dissonance between the diverse creative practices of these artists, questioning readymade notions of diasporic identity.

IMAGE: Cyrus Tang, In memory’s eye, we travel…, 2016, 3 channel HD video, 8.38 min loop

JULIE RRAP Interviewed by Jennifer Higgie

Julie Rrap interviewed in Ocular by Jennifer Higgie. In the interview Rrap discusses the evolution of her latest commission - a double cast of her body in bronze - and evaluates its place amongst four decades of feminist practice.

Rrap is the recipient of the 2024 Melbourne Art Foundation Commission. Her work, titled 'SOMOS (Standing On My Own Shoulders)', is a life-sized bronze sculpture that will be unveiled at Melbourne Art Fair next week, before travelling to the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) where it will be included in Rrap's solo show, 'Past Continuous', opening in June 2024, and later to its permanent home in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Read the article here >

DESMOND LAZARO Interviewed by Sophia Cai

"It is at this point that I realise maybe there are no such thing as coincidences. Lazaro has been using labyrinth motifs in his work for a number of years prior to moving next door to one." - Sophia Cai on visiting Desmond Lazaro at his studio in Kyneton, Victoria.

Read more in the Art Gallery of New South Wales' magazine 'Look'.
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IMAGES: Kristoffer Paulsen and the Art Gallery of NSW.