Misha Hollenbach, A.T.G.S. Utopian Slumps, Melbourne; 24 August – 14 September 2013 On a colour control setting with only three dials – black, white and beige – Misha Hollenbach somehow manages to crank out an unnervingly discordant symphony of harmonic rhythms that I could quite happily have bathed myself in for hours. Part ceremonial aftershock, part … Continue reading
Heather B. Swann Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne; 20 August – 21 September 2013 Matte black figures cradling an inward gravitational field tumble, roll, prop and fall. Human heads sit like poised flower buds on a charred and jointed branch that dissects the room. Giant black penises threaten in downward trajectories. Heather B. Swann creates surrealist … Continue reading
Simon Starling, In Speculum Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Caulfield; 18 July – 21 September 2013 Simon Starling is a web weaver. He’s an artist who works with the materiality of connecting threads. A builder of scaffolds into which the architecture of his artwork constructs itself. Material narratives take the driving seat in his … Continue reading
Renee Cosgrave and Merryn Lloyd, Window Painting Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Caulfield; 4 August – 21 September 2013 Renee and Merryn bring their compulsive energies to bear on a section of large window panes at MUMA and deliver a two-fold work that unpacks like mulit-dimensional origami. Two-fold because the window painting is both … Continue reading
Adam John Cullen, Lumped together West Space, Melbourne; 16 August – 7 September 2013 A tension of absence served on sliced volcano juice is what awaits you in Gallery 3 at West Space. Cast interiors of plastic bags slump together, draping over ropes suspending their mass from the ceiling or flopping over glass mirrors or a … Continue reading
Bryan Spier, Heavy Images Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne; 1 August – 31 August 2013 Accident marries composure and breeds joy in this delightful show by Bryan Spier at Sarah Scout. Glitch blinks and slips on floating gravitational fields and a perpendicular cartesian grid presses flush up against your corneas. There’s playfulness in experimentation and a sheer exuberance … Continue reading
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