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Under LamplightAlbert Tucker & Patrick Pound

This exhibition showcases a series of works by Albert Tucker united by the motif of the electric lamp as pictorial device, potent symbol and dramatic light source. The works are accompanied by a curated selection of Patrick Pound’s vast archive of found lamp-lit photographs and clippings: from vernacular snaps to newspaper photographs, cinema stills and archival images. As Pound describes, together they ‘light up like a crime scene caught in a newspaper photographer’s flash’.

The exhibition seeks to reconsider Tucker’s work through the singular frame of electric light: at once melancholy and moody, technical and historic, painterly and expressive. Pound’s photographic inventory further reminds us of the expressive possibilities of electric light through modernism and the history of design.

When
30 October 2021 – 5 June 2022
Location
Albert & Barbara Tucker Gallery
Curator/s
Patrick Pound (guest curator)

Under Lamplight: Albert Tucker & Patrick Pound installation view, photograph: Christian Capurro

Under Lamplight: Albert Tucker & Patrick Pound installation view, photograph: Christian Capurro

Under Lamplight: Albert Tucker & Patrick Pound installation view, photograph: Christian Capurro

Under Lamplight: Albert Tucker & Patrick Pound installation view, photograph: Christian Capurro

Under Lamplight: Albert Tucker & Patrick Pound installation view, photograph: Christian Capurro

Under Lamplight: Albert Tucker & Patrick Pound installation view, photograph: Christian Capurro

Under Lamplight: Albert Tucker & Patrick Pound installation view, photograph: Christian Capurro

Under Lamplight: Albert Tucker & Patrick Pound installation view, photograph: Christian Capurro

Under Lamplight: Albert Tucker & Patrick Pound installation view, photograph: Christian Capurro

Under Lamplight: Albert Tucker & Patrick Pound installation view, photograph: Christian Capurro

Under Lamplight: Albert Tucker & Patrick Pound installation view, photograph: Christian Capurro

Under Lamplight: Albert Tucker & Patrick Pound installation view, photograph: Christian Capurro

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