Tolarno Galleries - Melbourne Australia

JUNE 2008

ROSEMARY LAING

2008 BIENNALE OF SYDNEY
REVOLUTIONS - FORMS THAT TURN
18 June - 7 September 2008

ROSEMARY LAING
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART

For the Sydney Biennale, Rosemary Laing's weather 2006 works are accompanied by one dozen weather drawings - a selection of Laing's preparatory drawings for the series - exhibited publicly for the first time.

www.bos2008.com

Rosemary Laing
weather #4 2006
C Type photograph

JUNE 2008

BILL HENSON

TEEN CITY
The adventure of adolescence
Musee de l'Elysee Lausanne, Switzerland
15 June until 26 October 2008

Teen, abbreviation of teenager, an adolescent aged between 13 and 19.

City, from French « cité » and Latin « civitas ».
The member of a city, the citizen (latin civis), inhabits a clearly defined territory. He has duties towards his tribe and considers his peers as members of his family or clan.

Work by Bill Henson is included in TEEN CITY The adventure of adolescence at the Musee de l'Elysee curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer.

www.elysee.ch

JUNE 2008

BROOK ANDREW

»typical! Cliches of Jews and Others«
An Exhibition By The Jewish Museum Berlin and
The Jewish Museum Vienna

Brook Andrew's Sexy and Dangerous I 1996 is included in »typical! Cliches of Jews and Others« a touring exhibition about the stereotyped seeing, perceiving, and compartmentalizing of images and objects.

Jewish Museum Berlin
20 March to 3 August 2008

Spertus Institute Chicago
26 September 2008 to 18 January 2009

Jewish Museum Vienna
7 February to 21 June 2009


Jewish Museum Berlin
Lindenstraße 9-14, 10969 Berlin

www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de

JUNE 2008

ANASTASIA KLOSE

2008 BIENNALE OF SYDNEY
REVOLUTIONS - FORMS THAT TURN
18 June - 7 September 2008

Anastasia Klose’s Rollerskating at ACCA, 2006 is now availble for viewing in the Sydney Biennale Online Venue Revolutionsonline.

Right:
Anastasia Klose
Rollerskating at ACCA, 2006 Video still
Music: 'The Lark Ascending', Ralph Vaughan-Williams, performed by the English Northern Philharmonia (Naxos).
Filmed by Elizabeth Presa and Graham Smith
Commissioned by the Australian Centre of Art, Melbourne, for the exhibition New 07

www.bos2008.com/revolutionsonline

JUNE 2008

JUDY WATSON

ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Culture Warriors
National Indigenous Art Triennial
20 June - 31 August 2008

A National Gallery of Australia Travelling Exhibition

Judy Watson's work big blue world with three stupas, 2004 is included in Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial now at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

Judy Watson
big blue world with three stupas 2004
Acrylic, pigment on canvas
287 x 210 cm

MAY 2008

ADAM CULLEN

The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
ADAM CULLEN - LET'S GET LOST
15 May to 27 July 2008

Adam Cullen is a unique figure in contemporary Australian art, a larger-than-life artist whose abrasive yet expressive paintings are a confronting and incisive view of contemporary life.

This exhibition includes paintings, drawings and sculpture from the early 1990s until now.

Rudy Komon Gallery, Upper Level
The Art Gallery of New South Wales

Right:
Adam Cullen
Distant Cousins are in Limited Supply 2000
Ink, enamel and acrylic on canvas
200 x 220 cm

APRIL 2008

BROOK ANDREW

The John Curtin Gallery, Perth
BROOK ANDREW: Eye to Eye
4 April to 30 May 2008

A Monash University Museum of Art Touring Exhibition, Brook Andrew: Eye to Eye is the first major survey of the artists's work.

Brook Andrew: Eye to Eye is an exhibition that spans the artist's practise over the past decade and features photography, neon lighting and installation.

Reflecting equally on global mass-media and traditional grass roots aesthetics, the works in this exhibition speak of an unfolding or recovery of a lost history, a lost identity and a lost language.

The John Curtin Gallery
Curtin University of Technology
Building 200, Kent Street, Bentley, WA 6102
T +61 8 9266 4155.

APRIL 2008

TIM MAGUIRE

Museum Villa Rot, Ulm, Germany
In voller Blute
20 April to 6 July 2008

Tim Maguire's work has been included in an exhibition 'In voller Blute' at Museum Villa Rot in Ulm, Germany.

A group show of recent and past oil paintings including the the work of Araki, Blossfeldt, Cho, Ducret, Geisler, Handschin, Leyendecker, Munding, Simons, Strba, Suda, Taras, and Von Wedemyer.

Right:
Tim Maguire
Untitled (Brownish Poppy)
Oil on Canvas 100 x 90 cm

APRIL 2008

CAROLINE ROTHWELL

ARTSPACE, Sydney
Blowback
4 April to 26 April 2008


"Inflatable islands; a cast metal thylacine with a stuffed toy sensibility; an animal trap and trees make up Caroline Rothwell's installation, Blowback.

The works in Blowback suggest undiscovered territories somewhere between Dr No's technosonic islands, enlarged mass-produced toys and strange drawings by eighteenth-century voyagers.

Industrial urban materials are processed by hand into large-scale distortions of nature to create an other-worldly yet strangely familiar environment." Artspace, 2008



Right
Installation view
Caroline Rothwell, Blowback Artspace, Sydney, 2008

FEBRUARY 2008

ROSEMARY LAING

Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
to walk on a sea of salt
ROSEMARY LAING
27 February to 6 April 2008

Rosemary Laing's series to walk on a sea of salt, photographed entirely within South Australia, examines the sense of national identity with reference to the journeys made by early European explorers and recent immigrants and refugees.

Contemporary Visual Art Projects 2008 Project 1

Right:
Rosemary Laing
to walk on a sea of salt,2004

JANUARY 2008

TIM MAGUIRE

IKON GALLERY, BIRMINGHAM, UK
Snow, water and flowers
29 January to 24 March 2008
First Floor Galleries and Tower Room

Tim Maguire has produced new works based on photographs and video imagery for Snow, water and flowers.

Depicting fragments of still-lifes and landscapes - specifically, flowers and falling snow - these sumptuous images celebrate the ethereal nature of beauty. In addition there is a series of smaller photographs and a video capturing the movement of water through the superimposition of separated pure colours.


Right
Refraction, 2007
Digital pigment ink on paper

JANUARY 2008

BROOK ANDREW

THE ISCP RESIDENCY, NEW YORK

Brook Andrew has been awarded a residency to The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), in New York by the Australia Council for the Arts.

ISCP is a residency tailored to suit the practical needs of the visiting artist/curator by providing space in which to produce as well as addressing the magnitude of the world’s art capital. The program prides itself on providing an infrastructure, which accelerates integration and interaction with the host culture and in the course of its development, has become a catalyst for introduction, presentation, connection, exposure and dissemination.

Brook will be undertaking this residency in 2008.

JANUARY 2008

PETER ATKINS

THE LOS ANGELES STUDIO RESIDENCY

Peter Atkins has been awarded The Los Angeles Studio Residency by the Australia Council for the Arts.

"For the past decade my practice has been concerned with the concept of 'readymade abstraction', abstract elements that exist in one form or another in the urban landscape. Discarded plastic and paperforms collected off the footpath, street and store signage, commercial packaging, wallforms, patterns on trucks and buses, incidental designs on book and record covers etc. I see these forms as markers or mapping points of my physical interaction within the landscape. I am particularly interested in the unique vocabulary of form and the way this manifests itself in specific locales. A language of form as unique to Melbourne as it would be to Sydney, New York, Los Angeles or anywhere else. This residency will enable me to extend and further explore these ideas and allow me to push the core of my practice into new conceptual territories."

Peter will be in residence from May through August 2008.