VAULT EXTRA 16th DECEMBER 2021
FOUND AND GATHERED: ROSALIE GASCOIGNE AND LORRAINE CONNELLY-NORTHEY
A ground-breaking exhibition of two Australian icons is currently on display at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. Uniting two important Australian artists for the first time, Found and Gathered: Rosalie Gascoigne and Lorraine Connelly-Northey brings attention to the shared materiality at the heart of Rosalie Gascoigne and Lorraine Connelly-Northey’s land-based practices. Both artists demonstrate a transformative handling of found and discarded objects, creating surprising and beautiful works of art that invite viewers to question their understanding of the earth and its materiality.
Found and Gathered: Rosalie Gascoigne and Lorraine Connelly-Northey celebrates the profound influence of each artist. Gascoigne and Connelly-Northey were both formative in the development of a distinct ‘Australian’ art movement and Found and Gathered: Rosalie Gascoigne and Lorraine Connelly-Northey points to this legacy through a major display of more 75 wall-based and sculptural works. The exhibition gives insight into each artist’s handling of found natural materials and man-made objects, such as road signs and corrugated iron, while overarchingly, evoking a sense of the power of the Australian landscape.
As part VAULT Issue, 35 (Aug – Oct): The Environment VAULT honed in on the legacy of Rosalie Gascoigne’s practice. Read more about the artist’s practice in Catalyst: Rosalie Gascoigne.
Found and Gathered: Rosalie Gascoigne and Lorraine Connelly-Northey continues at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia until 20 February, 2022.
Image credit:Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Narrbong (Container), 2005, iron, emu feathers, 30.5 × 34 × 35.5 cm (variable). National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. © Lorraine Connelly-Northey.
IVANA TAYLOR AT GALLERY SALLY DAN-CUTHBERT
An incredible selection of sculpture, lighting and furniture by artist Ivana Taylor is currently showing at Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, both in the gallery and online. Reframe marks an exploration of different mediums and disciplines that come together to invite the viewer to explore the world through different frames and layers. The exhibition also showcases the Taylor’s textile wrapping practice, which is a process symbolically connected to the act of care-giving and protection. The significance of textile wrapping is emergent from a myriad of historic cultural references, such as the wrapping techniques used by mothers swaddling babies in Ancient Egypt. Reframe as a body of work grapples with the tension and balance that is dually present within each artwork and their individual materiality. The exhibition continues at Gallery Sally Dan Cuthbert until December 19, 2021.
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Image credit:Installation view Ivana Taylor, Reframe, 2021, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert. Photo courtesy Simon Hewson
GUY WARREN AT NICHOLAS THOMPSON GALLERY
Even after celebrating his 100th birthday in April this year, Guy Warren has not allowed age to slow his creativity – the artist currently showing a selection of new paintings and works on paper at Nicholas Thompson Gallery.
The works presented in Guy Warren: The One Hundred & First Year tells of a recurring, yet recently a more pointed exploration in the artist’s practice. Warren explores the idea that the figure not only exists within the landscape but exists as a part of it – harnessing the form, colour and figuration to grapple with the embodiment of this outlook. As such, Warren maintains an intuitive art making process – whereby the physical act of drawing or painting takes over as he allows his awareness to move to the background.
Guy Warren: The One Hundred & First Year is showing at Nicholas Thompson gallery until December 18, 2021.
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Image credit:Guy Warren, Wandering, 2021, watercolour, 57 x 76 cm. Image courtesy of Nicholas Thompson gallery and the artist
INDIGENOUS TRIENNIAL AT NGA
The 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial will open at the National Gallery of Australia in March 2022 with a community celebration led by First Nations artists. The upcoming iteration of the Triennial engages with the theme of ‘ceremony’, exploring the central role of ceremonial acts within First Nations cultures. Showcasing the work of more than 35 artists from across Australia, Ceremony will also survey how ceremonies and rituals continue to act as a prevalent forum for artmaking in First Nations cultures and communities. A highlight of the opening weekend will be the inauguration of an enduring work of art by Dr Matilda House and Paul Girrawah House. The work, Mulanganggari yur-wang (alive and strong), will be a permanent public art installation of traditional tree scarring in the National Gallery Sculpture Garden. The National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony exhibition will run from March 26 –to July 31, 2022.
Image credit:Robert Fielding, Graveyards In Between, 2017, C-type print. Image courtesy the artist and Mimili Maku Arts © the artist
MAURIZIO CATTELAN: THE LAST JUDGEMENT AT UCCA
Themes of death, history and social mores permeate a presentation of 29 significant works by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan currently showing at UCCA Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Beijing. True to the artist’s multi-disciplinary and boundary pushing practice, works in The Last Judgement span installation, sculpture and performance. Inspired by Michelangelo’s fresco in the Sistine Chapel, The Last Judgement stresses the tensions between the active choice of judgement and the passive experience of being judged. The artist encourages viewers to search for stories within each artwork, allowing them to form their own interpretations and judgements. The exhibition continues until February 20, 2022.
Image credit: Maurizio Cattelan, We, 2010, wood, fiberglass, polyurethane, rubber, fabric, 68 x 148 x 79 cm. Courtesy of UCCA and the artist
ALICJA KWADE AT KÖNIG GALERIE SEOUL
A series of more than thirty recent works by acclaimed Polish artist Alicja Kwade are currently on display at König Galerie, Seoul. Presented by both König Seoul and Pace Gallery, Seoul, Sometimes I Prefer to Sit on a Chair on the Earth questions the process by which we perceive and construct reality. The exhibition features new works on paper and significant sculptural works. Within the exhibition Entropie, a series of works on paper, focuses on the ‘absence of order’ that lies behind our narrow modes of perception. Her sculptural works, which largely employ mirror and rock, invite the viewer to question their methods of perception through circular movements. As the viewer moves around the artwork, they are presented with different viewing angles that invite different visions of reality. Ultimately, the works on show become tools by which to explore one’s own sensory perceptions. The exhibition will run until January, 22 2022.
VAULT features Alicja Kwade in Issue 33 (Feb – April 2021). You can subscribe today to read more about the artist’s incredible practice.
Image credit:Installation view Alicja Kwade, Sometimes I Prefer to Sit on a Chair on the Earth, KÖNIG SEOUL, 2021. Courtesy KÖNIG SEOUL.
WHO’S AFRAID OF PUBLIC SPACE AT ACCA
Continuing on from ACCA’s Big Picture exhibition series, which explored the connection of the contemporary arts to wider social and cultural contexts, Who’s Afraid of Public Space is a multifaceted city-wide initiative, spanning exhibitions, programs and online resources, geared towards investigating the role of public culture and character of public life. Who’s Afraid of Public Space both thematically and physically explores these propositions – ACCA’s four gallery spaces having been transformed into civic spaces available for public use as well as facilitating engaging programming to unpack ideas. The four spaces, which include the Gathering Space, Education Space, Reading Space and Project Space, are available for members of the public to hold free events throughout the duration of the exhibition. Beyond the gallery walls, the project will extend into public spaces across Melbourne, activating the city through a plethora of artist-led projects, interventions and events. Who’s Afraid of Public Space also involves a number of satellite programs with renowned Melbourne-based arts spaces, initiatives and organisations, including The Abbotsford Convent, Arts Project Australia, Bus Projects and many more.
Who’s Afraid of Public Space will run until 20 March, 2022.
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Satellite Program: To the Streets
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Satellite Program: Abbotsford Convent
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Image credit:Sibling Architecture, Project Space: The Hoarding, 2021, digital render. Courtesy Sibling Architecture
