Yellow-Blue 2002-03
Oil on canvas
171 x 230cm
We are all Lost in the Supermarket and we don't even know it.
For the first time in three years, Ben Frost unleashes his visual delight
that is mental torture, on Sydney. Recently returned from his second solo
show in New York following exhibitions in London, Berlin, Amsterdam,
Singapor ...
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Officially opened at 7.15 pm by Elizabeth Ann Macgregor
Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. - The works of Forgetful Sky-each powerful video or photographic vignettes, rendering facets of amnesia and traumatic memory-combine in this exhibition to present a profound essay on visual imagina ...
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In the most literal interpretation Insurgent refers to “the surging or rushing” of water. The most common use of this term is to describe “forceful opposition to a lawful authority”. In Chinese folklore, the hero is nearly always a rebel. Likewise, in American popular culture the anti-hero is cel ...
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Dusk to Dawn was created during a one-week period at Northwest Cape, where the western-most point of Australia juts into the Indian Ocean. The photographs chart the passage of time during this period on a number of levels of scale, from the duration of the exposure
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Farrell and Parkins Chinese Self Portraits do not reflect their desire to be Chinese or to even capture Chinese culture from a westerners point of view, they show the effect of Chinese culture seeping into their lives from first hand experience.
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I am interested in how the sentimental has become historically aligned with the marginalised (women, the lower classes, ethnic minorities and particularly homosexuals) yet remains such a powerful, often unacknowledged presence driving mainstream culture.
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The works collected together for this exhibition are built up from sheets of corrugated iron, but the subject of Unearthed, the valued text, is the inscription of life. Kleinert has gleaned the patinas and rusts of experience. He has sifted time and offers these gleanings for contemplation.
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