Reijiro Wada, Scarlet Capsule Gallery; 21 January to 19 February Frames and containers lead the charge in a dualistic choreography of soft organic realities housed in hard artificial constructs. Like a molecular composition of couplets, Reijiro Wada plays poetry with material, time and entropy in his exquisite show Scarlet at Capsule Gallery. It’s all glass, … Continue reading
Jud Wimhurst, Gimme Freedom (or Gimme Death) Bendigo Art Gallery; 5 November, 2016 to 12 February 2017 Nostalgia isn’t always the referential craning back for a better time. It isn’t always rose-coloured glasses and halcyon days. Sometimes, the fun-time good-times of the days of yore are dark hearts inside fluffy clouds, where clowns reveal the … Continue reading
Tetsuro Kano, a tree as a city Yuka Tsuruno Gallery; 21 January to 25 February Architectural miniatures constructed by sentient caterpillars and art-fan hummingbirds with a penchant for mid-century Calder mobiles furnish much of the Yuka Tsuruno Gallery in T-Art Complex, Tokyo. Set out over two spaces, the exhibition can be roughly categorised into three … Continue reading
Ryunosuke Goji & Issei Yamagata, optical camouflage Youboko Art Space, Tokyo; 21 January to 29 January Featuring video, print, sculpture, digital image and found objects, this punchy show by artists Ryunosuke Goji and Issei Yamagata works like a complex codex dissected into planar fragments and laid bare across a domestic space to entrap and enchant … Continue reading
Matthew Mahdavi, Oops, Something Went Wrong AIR3331, B108, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo; January 6 – 18, 2017 Organic forms blend into the technological, as planar fields conspire to throw weight through oscillations of time in Matt Mahdavi’s exhibition at 3331. His work is wrought upon itself in an imploding overlay of gravity and competing process. It’s like standing … Continue reading
Tomoo Seki, Real/Red: Red Blossoms Gallery Out of Place, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo; 13 January – 12 February Seki presents what is ostensibly two suites of works for his exhibition at Gallery Out of Place – a red series and a blue series. Both are investigations of landscape and interpretations of environment, with the red suite … Continue reading
‘Poetic Forms’ at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre Renee Cosgrave, Merryn Lloyd, Tom Reddington, Stephanie Stott, Sally Wemyss, Meagan Wyke Renee Cosgrave So it turns out that Bundoora Homestead Art Centre is bit of a sparkling gem on the open plains of the northern burbs. It’s an incredibly beautiful place, stained glass ceiling panels, carved hardwood … Continue reading
Thomas Demand, National Gallery of Victoria, 30 November 2012 to 17 March 2013 Representations of representations. Photos of sculptures. Thomas Demand produces incredible images, beautifully presented as prints on perspex. Famously, he makes models of objects, of entire scenes in fact, out of cardboard and paper and then photographs them. The skill in the making, … Continue reading
This time last year (Dec 2011) I started at Stockroom in Kyneton, taking over as Gallery Director. Today, a full 12 months later, I’ve wrapped up my role there. Bookending my experience are the end of year open-entry shows that are fast becoming staple events for regional Victoria. Last year the gallery received 155 entries … Continue reading
Amelie Scalercio, Altered States Stockroom Gallery, October 2012 what strikes me first about Amelie’s work is the playful nature of it. the waving mushroom man, the crumpled man-face with mascara and pencil mustache, the theatricality of the masks. in fact, the show reads like a masquerade of characters on the verge of coming to life … Continue reading
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