Curated by Fieldgate Gallery Private View: Friday 20th January, 6-9pm Exhibition Continues: Jan 21st – Feb 12th Cedric Christie – Alasdair Duncan – Gerard Hemsworth Karen Henderson – Ben Woodeson The American architect Louis Sullivan’s now famous maxim ‘Form follows function’ was one of the primary principles of Modernist architecture and design, and contributed to [...]
19 January – 17 March 2012 Preview: Wednesday 18 January 5:30-7:30 Kerstin Drechsel’s investigation of everyday culture, artistic production and individual taste is orientated towards the rhythms of popular music, film and daily occurrences. From transvestites to sex club devotees, office workers to nuclear protestors, Drechsel captures intimate personal moments of individuals or sub-culture groups [...]
Via Metro The Hammersmith Morris Men celebrated the 50th anniversary of the dance ‘Hammersmith Flyover’ by performing on the half-mile stretch of elevated road that inspired it. The dance was written for the group by John Kirkpatrick in 1962 – the same year the flyover was completed. It was closed just before Christmas so rusty [...]
Who Gets to Call It Art? (2006) is a ride through the 1960′s downtown New York art scene as seen through the eyes of legendary Metropolitan Museum of Art curator, Henry Geldzahler. The film opens on a montage that shows the spirit of the early 60s in New York City. The creative boom in advertising [...]
Lanfranchi’s Memorial Discotheque was Sydney’s favourite artist-run space, situated on the second level of an inner city warehouse. Lanfranchi’s doubled as a residence and unauthorised performance venue for five years, growing from unlikely beginnings to become what director Neil Armfield (Candy, Belvoir St Theatre) described as a ‘major strand of our city’s cultural DNA’. The [...]
Paris The Luminous Years, explores this unique moment in Paris from 1905 to 1930, decisive years for our contemporary culture, when an international group including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Igor Stravinsky, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Cocteau, Gertrude Stein, Vaslav Nijinsky and Aaron Copland, among numerous others, revolutionized the direction of the modern arts. In [...]
The verb to ‘curate’ is a recent addition to the lexicon of the art world. How has the role of the curator developed and, as the boundaries are increasingly blurred between the artist and the curator, is there a fundamental difference of position between artist and curator? Curator and writer Andrew Renton chairs the discussion [...]
Video Art Manual, 2011 by Keren Cytter. “the stuff masochistic art critics live for”.
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Swiss curator & art critic asks questions about the concept of exhibitions and audience: Could we realise a group show in which artists would not be given space, but some kind of temporality? Would it be possible for an exhibition to be delivered to audiences, rather than require them to walk through a [...]
Henny Acloque: Lugar de culto 13 January 2012 - 25 February 2012 Henny Acloque’s second solo exhibition at the gallery features new paintings, (all 2011), that draw on her family’s collections of auction catalogues and postcards featuring landscape paintings.The title Lugar de culto (Place of worship), reflects Acloque’s investigation into our relationship to nature, the transfer of [...]
