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COLOUR BAZAARNINE CONTEMPORARY WORKS

When
12 February – 19 June 2011
Location
Kerry Gardner & Andrew Myer Project Gallery
Admission

Free with Museum Pass

Free entry

Curator/s
Sue Cramer

Nine paintings and sculptures by contemporary artists are brought together in this exhibition to create a colourful, eclectic and texturally diverse display evoking the visual richness and variety of a bazaar. Typically bustling, overcrowded and sensory locations where myriad wares are presented for view, bazaars can offer unexpected discoveries and visual delights. Here too, in the quieter spaces of the gallery, are objects of wonder, beauty and strangeness, whose contrasting textures, shapes and colours amplify and complement one another. The works generate a lively conversation between geometry and organicism, rough and smooth surfaces, soft and hard materials, structured form and experiments with anti-form.

Nike Savvas
Sliding Ladders: Truncated Icosahedron #1
2010
wood, wool, steel
120 x 120 x 120 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Breenspace, Sydney

Nike Savvas
Sliding Ladders: Truncated Icosahedron #1
2010
wood, wool, steel
120 x 120 x 120 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Breenspace, Sydney

Matthys Gerber
Rala Rala
2007
oil on canvas
190 x 298 cm
Gift of Matthys Gerber and Pamela Hansford 2011
Courtesy of the artist

Matthys Gerber
Rala Rala
2007
oil on canvas
190 x 298 cm
Gift of Matthys Gerber and Pamela Hansford 2011
Courtesy of the artist

Colour acts as a spur to the imagination here. As modernist artist Paul Klee said, ‘Colour is the place where our brain and the Universe meet’. We see vivid pigments applied on canvas or cardboard, the readymade colours of fabrics like dyed hessian, tuille and wool, and coloured materials like adhesive vinyl and metal used to create highly individual and sometimes enigmatic works. Within our notional bazaar, a wide range of cultural and art historical references are invoked, including modernist abstraction and post-minimalism, educational toys and craft-activity, costumes for a theatre of the absurd, Rorschach images, Arabic music and decorative traditions. For all their differences, what the artists share is a spirit of experimentation with the mediums and processes of painting and sculpture.

This 18 page booklet accompanied the exhibition which featured nine paintings and sculptures by contemporary artists, brought together to create a colourful, eclectic and texturally diverse display evoking the visual richness and variety of a bazaar. Featuring an essay by curator Sue Cramer.

Published in 2011 by Heide Museum of Modern Art

ISBN: 9781921330193

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