DALE FRANK – NOBODY’S SWEETIE

Posted on 2013-08-26

Dale Frank’s paintings are characterised by an immediacy of process and a tense urgency of vision, the method of which he has mastered over several decades. Despite the appearance of serendipity, Frank controls his dynamic and intense process to achieve highly conscious outcomes. The images are literally brought to the surface through calculated action as the varnishes becomes thicker and more complex, trapping the colours and the evidence of the process under the surface, creating a depth of pictorial space and a three dimensionality.

The resulting chromatic arrangements are metaphysical universes referring as much to the spirit and to emotions as to physical spaces. The paintings allude to the awe and wonder of all consuming black holes, powerful magnetic stars and galactic collisions, gateways that connect points in space and time leading to other dimensions, forces of gravity – it is as if he were tapping into the energies of a collective unconscious and of the abstract.

Exhibition runs through to September 7th, 2013

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
8 Soudan Lane (off Hampden Street)
Paddington
NSW 2021
Sydney
Australia

www.roslynoxley9.com.au

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KARL BURKE & MAUD COTTER

Posted on 2013-08-26

Both Cotter and Burke have an innate capacity to create liner forms, resulting in a system of drawing in three dimensions. This approach respects the inner geometry present in their work – something that is incisive, formally economical and witty.

Karl Burke’s work is primarily concerned with perceptions of space and time and takes the form of installations, photographs, video and sound works. In an on-going body of work “wooden drawings” Burke places uniform lengths of processed wood in various situations in a particular environment, specifically in relation to different aspects of that space or place.

Maud Cotter’s work is an exploration of human presence and its indivisible relationship with the material world. To unlock the possibilities within this fundamental relationship is part of the challenge of the work. Within this, understanding physicality and the nature of energy is a central concern.

Exhibition runs through to October 13th, 2013

The MAC
10 Exchange Street West
Belfast
BT1 2NJ

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AI WEIWEI – BABY FORMULA

Posted on 2013-08-26

Following China’s 2008 melamine milk scandal, thousands of children who consumed the tainted milk fell ill and some even met their death. Mainlanders concerned about the safety of Chinese-produced baby milk formula resorted to purchasing milk powder from overseas and bringing it back to China. Subsequently, governments in Hong Kong and across Europe reacted to this surge in demand by enforcing restrictions on the number of cans mainlanders could purchase overseas.

Determined to initiate positive change and undeterred by the restrictions that the Chinese authorities had enforced, Ai Weiwei used Twitter to reach out to an even wider audience. For his exhibition in Singapore, Ai Weiwei has developed two series of prints selected from his tweets surrounding the safety of the mainland-produced baby milk formula. These prints will be shown together with an 860 square-foot installation – a map of China composed of more than 1,800 cans of baby formula.

By subverting instituted notions of culture and the role and form of art, Ai Weiwei’s works question the value of the status quo. Drawing from Andy Warhol’s philosophy that one must change things oneself; Ai Weiwei’s art is a force for change. During his twelve years spent in New York, Ai Weiwei’s exposure to Marcel Duchamp’s work was crucial in his artistic development; it shifted his perspective towards one that recognized art as a gesture, which could assume any form the artist chose. Consequently, many of the materials he uses are recycled in order to reflect that people are not free to do what they want, namely to use their imagination.

Exhibition runs through to October 6th, 2013

Michael Janssen Singapore
Gillman Barracks
9 Lock Road
Singapore 108937

www.galeriemichaeljanssen.de

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