2010
AUGUST
BENJAMIN ARMSTRONG
Benjamin Armstrong - Holding a thread
Emblem Books in association with Tolarno Galleries
Holding a thread is the first monograph on Benjamin Armstrong (born 1975 in Melbourne, Australia) and is lavishly illustrated with examples of his most remarkable work from the past ten years. In her essay, Juliana Engberg states that his works are about a kind of trauma of looking. This act of viewing is also explored in the conversation with Charlotte Day and the artist, as well as the influence of literature and the functionality of art and its role in other (non-Western and ancient) cultures.
Emblem Books is a new independent publisher of contemporary art, design and visual culture. Titles from Emblem Books are distributed to specialist art and design bookstores by Modern Journal and Idea Books. Ask about Emblem Books at your nearest store or contact Tolarno Galleries to purchase.
Benjamin Armstrong
Holding a thread AUD $44
AUGUST
ANASTASIA KLOSE
TWMA Contemporary 2010
TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria
6 August - 24 October 2010
TWMA Contemporary 2010 showcases significant directions, acknowledges Australian talent and explores new ideas and practice in Australian contemporary art. TWMA has invited eight arts industry professionals to each nominate an artist for inclusion - culminating in a diverse group of artists coming together representing a range of practices seldom seen together within the same exhibition.
Anastasia Klose presents a new immersive three-channel video work entitled Night Work alongside works by Jon Campbell, Sally Gabori, Shaun Gladwell, Kate Murphy, David Rosetzky, Gareth Sansom and Brendan Van Hek
http://www.twma.com.au
Anastasia Klose
Night Work 2010
Video still
JULY
BROOK ANDREW
Brook Andrew: The Cell
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney
until 18 September 2010
The Cell commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, is a hypnotic, immersive, large-scale installation. A 12.5 metre by six-metre inflatable decorated both inside and out with Wiradjuri-op designs, The Cell requires viewers to don a patterned costume before crawling via a tunnel into the cell.
http://www.sherman-scaf.org.au
Brook Andrew The Cell 2010
Images courtesy SCAF
AUGUST
ANASTASIA KLOSE & ROBERT ROONEY
Gestures & Procedures
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
until 26 September 2010
A new survey exhibition where artists use gestures, rituals and repetitions in video and photography Gestures & Procedures brings together a series of works in which artists depict simple, recurring actions and sequences in their conceptual practice.
Some of the most seminal works in early video, studio and performance practice will be shown, including key 1970s projects by pioneer conceptual artists such as Bruce Nauman, John Baldessari and Vito Acconci, as well as works by contemporary practitioners such as British artist Lucy Gunning and Australians Anastasia Klose, Daniel von Sturmer and Tony Schwensen.
http://www.accaonline.org.au
Anastasia Klose
Slapping video
Video stills
JULY
PETER ATKINS & CONSTANZE ZIKOS
NGV Contemporary
Contemporary encounters - A selection of works from the Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square
until 17 October 2010
Drawn entirely from the NGV's collection, Contemporary encounters presents a stimulating survey of recent acquisitions, including Grubb and Ellis 2008 by Peter Atkins (right) and Robe St 2009 by Constanze Zikos (far right).
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au
JULY
BROOK ANDREW
BROOK ANDREW Black 2010
Art & Australia Artist Edition # 6
Art & Australia's Artist Editions celebrate the work of International and Australian artists and promote a more accessible, broader form of collecting. The latest edition comes from Winter 2010 cover artist Brook Andrew.
This playful Chinese character echoes Andrew's earlier neon statement You've always wanted to be black 2006, distilling it down to the complex terms surrounding the single word black- is it a racial or atmospheric expression?
Editions are available for purchase from Art & Australia, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, and Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney.
Edition of 50, $1000 plus GST, postage and handling.
http://www.artaustralia.com/
Brook Andrew
Black 2010 and Art & Australia Vol.47 No. 4 cover
JULY
ANASTASIA KLOSE
anastasia klose:i thought i was wrong, but it turned out i was wrong …
Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
until 7 August 2010
During her exhibition i thought i was wrong, but it turned out i was wrong … Anastasia Klose will sit in bed and write about her experience - in real time - while the audience watches and at times engages.
Anastasia Klose: I want to write about the people who come into the gallery and watch me, and the general experience. I can communicate with the people around me by writing on my computer, and people can read my thoughts in a sort of real-time. This is a way to involve the audience, to draw them into the work, to locate the writing occurring in a real time and place. The writing will be a kind of stream-of-consciousness I suppose, but I can’t say, as that would be pre-determining the performance.
http://www.aeaf.org.au
Anastasia Klose True Love 2009 DVD Video still
JUNE
BROOK ANDREW
Marcia Langton by Brook Andrew
The National Portait Gallery, Canberra
A new portrait commission by Brook Andrew has been unveiled at The National Portrait Gallery,Canberra. His subject, Marcia Langton AM (b. 1951), Foundation Chair and Professor of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, is a descendant of the Yiman nation of central Queensland. She has published widely in the field of Aboriginal studies, on topics including land tenure, agreement-making, art and film.
Reflecting Langton's personal interest in Eastern philosophy and culture, Brook Andrew's portrait depicts her as a powerful goddess with the earth's elemental forces at her command.
http://www.portrait.gov.au
Brook Andrew
Marcia Langton 2010
MAY
ROSEMARY LAING
TIMELINES - Photography and Time
NGV International - 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
until 3 October 2010
TIMELINES - Photography and Time explores how the medium of photography captures the concept of time in surprising, moving or even confronting ways.
Drawn from the NGV Collection, this exhibition includes work by Rosemary Laing alongside works by Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, Bill Brandt and Rod McNicol.
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au
Rosemary Laing
a dozen useless actions for grieving blondes #10 2009
MAY
BROOK ANDREW
Great Northern Great Southern: Aboriginal and Inuit artists
Musee des Confluences Lyon, France
until 28 November 2010
The exhibition comprises over 160 works of contemporary artists and aboriginal Inuit sculptures, paintings, photographs and videos, from the collections of the Musee des Confluences and public and private collections.
These artists speak about their relationship to the contemporary world, and their mythologies.
http://www.museedesconfluences.fr/
Brook Andrew
2007
MAY
BRENDAN HUNTLEY, ANDREW LONG, DAN MOYNIHAN, CONOR O'BRIEN, RIELY PAYNE, and JAKE WALKER
Points of View
Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
13 May until 26 June 2010
Points of View presents new bodies of work from Brendan Huntley, Andrew Long, Dan Moynihan, Conor O'Brien, Riley Payne and Jake Walker. Exhibiting together for the first time, each was invited to present their own perspective on the world through sculpture, drawing, painting, photography and video.
Exhibiting regularly over the last decade, in Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide, New York, Toronto, Tokyo, Philadelphia, and Quebec these artists have a combined exhibiting history of over thirty years.
For a list of works, or more information please contact the gallery.
Left to right : Conor O'Brien, Jake Walker, Brendan Huntley, Andrew Long, Riley Payne, Dan Moynihan.
APRIL
PATRICIA PICCININI
Patricia Piccinini: RELATIVITY
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
30 April until 22 August 2010
Patricia Piccinini: RELATIVITY is the first major survey of Piccinini's sculptural works in Western Australia. The exhibition, curated by Juliana Engberg, includes more than 20 significant projects, and a new installation that was created for the Gallery's concourse, Aloft 2010.
Patricia Piccinini
The Long Awaited 2008
Silicone, fibreglass, human hair, leather, plywood, clothing
APRIL
ANDREW BROWNE
Andrew Browne: From the Periphery
McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park
The French Gallery
25 April until 27 June 2010
Inspired by Andrew Browne's recent series of nocturnal scenes, McClelland Gallery invited him to create a body of work inspired by the Gallery's surrounding landscape. This is the first solo exhibition to respond directly to the McClelland landscape, and in particular to the vegetation of the recently acquired land.
Andrew Browne
Periphery #1 (LB) 2010
Oil on linen
198 x 147.5 cm
MARCH
ANDREW BROWNE & LOUISE HEARMAN
Wilderness
Balnaves contemporary: painting
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Rudy Komon Gallery, Upper Level
5 March until 23 May 2010
Works by Andrew Browne and Louise Hearman are included in Wilderness curated by Wayne Tunnicliffe, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Bringing together 14 of Australia's best contemporary painters, Wilderness considers how nature and landscape continue to preoccupy contemporary painters. Not nature based on observation, however, but a realm of vivid imaginary landscapes, creatures both natural and unnatural, and humans who seem to emerge like wood sprites from the forest. The wild' here is found in the mind of the artists..
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
Left to right : Andrew Browne, Curtain 2009 and Louise Hearman Untitled 1279 2009
FEBRUARY
BENJAMIN ARMSTRONG
2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Before & After Science
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
27 February until 2 May 2010
Benjamin Armstrong has been selected for inclusion in the 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Before & After Science. Curated by Charlotte Day and Sarah Tutton, Before & After Science assembles 22 of the nation's most innovative and exciting contemporary artists and artist groups, to present a wondrous and unsettling vision of our world, where mystery and the unknowable wrestle with order and reason.
http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au
Benjamin Armstrong
Hold Everything Dear III 2009
Fabric, blown glass, wax, wood
83 x 99 x 302 cm
FEBRUARY
PATRICIA PICCININI
Patricia Piccinini - Big Mother
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Gallery 11
A recent acquisition by the Art Gallery of South Australia, Patricia Piccinini's Big Mother, forms the central focus of an installation in Gallery 11.
FEBRUARY
BROOK ANDREW
17th Biennale of Sydney
Brook Andrew Jumping Castle War Memorial
12 May until 1 August 2010
Based on the curatorial theme THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, recent and new works by Australian artists will be showcased alongside international artists at Sydney’s leading cultural
institutions, contemporary art spaces and heritage sites.
Brook Andrew will present Jumping Castle War Memorial (2010), a large inflatable structure with a heroic figure at its core, decorated with a pattern based on Wiradjuri design. Despite appearances, this will not a playground for children and visitors over the age of 16 years will be asked to consider the significance of their actions if they wish to enter the space.
http://www.bos17.com/
FEBRUARY
BROOK ANDREW
FUTURE IMAGES
published by 24 OREMotta Cultura srl, Milan 2009
FUTURE IMAGES edited by Mario Cresci, explores at an international level the works of some of the emerging artists who use the photographic medium without adopting the generic schemata of traditional photography.
FUTURE IMAGES includes works from Brook Andrew's Gun-metal Grey series.
www.italbooks.com
FEBRUARY
PETER HENNESSEY
17th Biennale of Sydney
THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age
12 May until 1 August 2010
David Elliott, international curator, writer, broadcaster and museum director, explores connections between the visual arts and other art forms in THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age. Artists' works will be presented alongside the work of contemporary writers, filmmakers, commentators and musicians. Elliott says: 'The aim of this Biennale is to bring together work from diverse cultures, at the same time, on the equal playing field of contemporary art, where no culture can assume superiority over any other.'
New work by Peter Hennessey will be included in the Biennale.
http://www.bos17.com/
FEBRUARY
PETER HENNESSEY
Front Gallery
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
My Hell's Gate
5 February until 27 February 2010
Drawing on the mottled and highly litigious history of explosives, Peter Hennessey has created a major new performance installation for GCAS.
For this exhibition Peter Hennessy has restaged the blast which announced the beginning of the era of explosives, Hell's Gate NY. In a perspex vitrine in the gallery space containing a tonne of water, he undertook a reduced scale recreation of the 1861 blast which remained the largest man-made explosion until the atomic bomb. This project is a reflection on the huge but strangly invisible role the explosives play in the modern era.
www.gertrude.org.au
JANUARY
PETER HENNESSEY
Global Switch, 400 Harris Street, Ultimo, Sydney
Peter Hennessey ROOT LEVEL
Launched December 2009
ROOT LEVEL is a new public artwork by Peter Hennessey commissioned by Global Switch for their data centre in Harris Street, Ultimo.
Standing at more than three metres in height, and stretching almost 50 metres across street level window frontage ROOT LEVEL is a giant plywood root system, and one of the largest public artworks realised in Australia in 2009.
Peter Hennessey comments: "The space behind the window is filled with a tangle of massively over-scaled plant roots, running from ceiling to floor...
"Conceptually, the roots clearly refer to the function of the building as a data centre; with its electronic tangle of data/cable roots constantly pushing and pulling virtual nourishment from the global and local information environment."
JANUARY
PETER ATKINS & DAVID WADELTON
The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne
The Shilo project
until 14 March 2010
The Shilo project is based on Neil Diamond’s 1970 album, the cover of which features a connect-the-dots portrait of Diamond for fans to complete. The project invites up to 100 contemporary Australian artists to complete a ‘blank’ cover and displays their sleeves alongside those found in op shops completed by unknown individuals. Curated by Dr Chris McAuliffe and including work by Peter Atkins and David Wadelton.
Peter Atkins, Shilo 'Mash-up' and detail view 2009
JANUARY
ANASTASIA KLOSE
Institute of Modern Art
Fortitude Vallery, Brisbane QLD
Feminism Never Happened
30 January until 20 March 2010
Feminism Never Happened is interested in both feminist and anti-feminist possibilities in work habitually located within feminist art. It includes works by women artists from Australia and New Zealand which can be read within a feminist frame but can also be seen to trouble it: Del Kathryn Barton, Pat Brassington, Kirsty Bruce, Jacqueline Fraser, Anastasia Klose, Fiona Lowry, Fiona Pardington, Yvonne Todd, and Jemima Wyman.
www.ima.org.au
Anastasia Klose
My boyfriend dumped me on facebook 2007
JANUARY
TIM MAGUIRE
Painting Today
published by Phaidon Press 2009
Painting Today is a comprehensive overview of painting over the last 40 years, presenting works by 240 artists, from more than 30 countries.
Painting Today features the work of Tim Maguire.
www.phaidon.com
JANUARY
CAROLINE ROTHWELL
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
New sculpture by Caroline Rothwell and Kathy Temin
until 14 February 2010
Two contemporary Australian artists challenge the definition of sculpture in this exhibition. Caroline Rothwell uses the traditional sculptural process of casting but in the case of her gigantic inflatable, Man of Exotopos ii she casts with air.
www.nag.org.au
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