Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre garden has two new sculptural installations by ROBBIE ROWLANDS. The two works titled Stem and Where to from here were produced during his recent residency at Hazelhurst.
Working site specific and reclaiming found objects, Rowlands transforms everyday materials common to the public eye, to poetic gestures filled with new meaning.
In Stem, Rowlands presents a cluster of street poles and signs welded together form a large thorny rose-like stem.
A seemingly unlikely location to find street signs- confusing our whereabouts and displacing our expectations, collectively these street signs reveal the area’s complex and layered history.
In the second installation titled Where to from here a local boom gate scheduled for demolition finds a new place and abstracted shape, expanding thoughts on how architecture of regulations conform our pattern of moving through society. Where do we go when no where is forbidden?
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PETER DAVERINGTON
As part of the exhibition PEEKSKILL PROJECT V - PETER DAVERINGTON's new video work Arcadia (2012) is currently on view at Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York. The exhibition will be open until 13 February.
DANI MARTI
DANI MARTI is included in the new extensive curatorial project and exhibition entitled ECONOMY opening at Stills, Edinburgh, and at CCA, Glasgow on 26 Jan 2013.
Two parallell exhibitions make the core of the project that examines why, and how, art since the 1990s has revealed the economy to be the axis of contemporary existence.
ECONOMY Features works of over 40 international artists, a website as well as the forthcoming volume from the Liverpool University Press entitled ECONOMY: Art and the Subject after Postmodernism.
Read more from e-flux here.
Project website.
The exhibitions will be open until 21 April this year.
VANILA NETTO
VANILA NETTO: ONE TWO THREE OBLIVION
30 January – 2 March 2013
Opening: Thursday 31 January, 5:30-7:30pm
ARC ONE Gallery is pleased to present: One Two Three Oblivion - VANILA NETTO's third solo exhibition at the gallery.
In the exhibition the artist presents fifteen photographic images and a neon sculpture. The disregarded, overlooked and transitory associations between the self, time and environmentally ruinous modes of consumption are captured within Netto’s presentation of space and form. Through Netto’s eye, these arrested objects and scenes are momentarily liberated from transience, provoking questions of consumption and obsolescence, constant themes evidenced throughout her work.
In the work Once in a Lifetime (2012), the height of Netto’s body (165cm) is traced in neon then separated into two parts to form circular shapes, metaphorically encapsulating the historic and unique eclipse of Venus over the Sun that occurred in June 2012. The circular motif of the eclipse repeats itself throughout One Two Three Oblivion in both its literal and symbolically powerful form, as generated by human consciousness throughout the ages. A collapse in the time-space continuum is captured, the self faced with the catalyst of the awe-inspiring eclipse and the workings of the universe, time, distance and space. This work expands on concerns initiated with The Artist as Luminous Source (2010), a single neon spiral measuring what Netto articulates as: ‘as long as I am tall.’
Netto’s practice includes photography, sculpture, drawing and video, referencing Modernist design and architecture, nature, science fiction and technology. The re-utilisation of ordinary objects is a reoccurring theme in Netto’s work; expressing personal anxieties in reaction to mass consumerism and the increasingly catastrophic exploitation of all the things we share. The shift between indoor studio scenes, cool landscapes, stark architectural forms and technological artifacts encourage the viewer to question our relationship with the environment and our lifestyles of material obsolescence.
Born 1963, Salvador, Brazil, Vanila Netto lives and works in Amsterdam. Winner of the 2006 Australian Photographic Portrait Prize and a commended finalist for the 2005 Helen Lempriere Travelling Scholarship, Netto has exhibited locally and internationally for over ten years. She is included in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artbank, UBS Melbourne, and Deloitte, Sydney. Selected exhibitions include: Time and Vision, Bargerhouse Oxo Tower, Southbank, London, 2012; Open Atelier Paintings – New Works, 1800 Roeden Atelier 0.15 Hal B, Amsterdam, 2012; Project February 29th 2012, Kunsthale Hannover, Germany, 2012; In Advance, UTS Gallery, Sydney, 2010; The Isolated Object, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007; Perfect for Every Occasion: Photography Today, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2007; Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art: 21st Century Modern, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2006 and 2004: Australian Culture Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2004.
For all enquiries, please contact Annabel Holt at mail@arc1gallery.com
ISABELLE RUDOLPH: DESAFINADO
30 January – 16 February 2013
Opening: Thursday 31 January, 5:30-7:30pm
Desafinado is Isabelle Rudolph’s debut exhibition (as the recipient of the 2011 ARC ONE Gallery/Monash Award for High Achievement) at ARC ONE Gallery. An installation comprised of a large central sculpture and twelve paintings, exploring foreign scenes and memory of place. Rudolph’s central sculpture, Compass (2013) is an assemblage of hard rubbish—cupboards and furniture salvaged from the streets of Melbourne. This reflects Rudolph’s exploration of the potentiality of discarded items as new and appropriated architectural forms. Positioned in the centre of the gallery, the openings and closings of the draws and doors point to multiple worlds and destinations. The twelve paintings are positioned at the circumference of the sculpture and the landscapes depicted in the paintings correlate to the points of the compass.
For Rudolph, the installation draws on a longing for stability and a sense of worth in life; but of knowing the impossibility of such solace, thus discovering a beauty within imperfection.
Desafinado is inspired by architecture discovered on Rudolph’s travels—the extravagant domed religious and state structures contrasted with domestic dwellings such as the squats of Europe’s Roma and the favelas of Brazil. Compass reflects these two aesthetics: drawing its composition from one, material and process from the other. Rudolph’s practice engages in how the refiguring process can make the familiar appear exotic and the discarded beautiful—without denying the object’s status as refuse.
For all enquiries, please contact Annabel Holt at mail@arc1gallery.com