OPENING THIS FRIDAY NIGHT

Pat Brassington
Á Rebours
11 August - 23 September 2012

A major survey by one of Australia’s most important and influential photo-based artists. This is the first extensive gathering of Brassington’s 30 years of practice and explores her ongoing aesthetic language derived from surrealism and cinema reinterpreted through photography.

Pat Brassington: À Rebours has been assisted by the Australian Government through
the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body

                                   

Sculptural Matter
11 August - 23 September 2012

Including video and photography, cast and found forms, installations and assemblages, Sculptural Matter explores a sculptural way of thinking and making from both a historical and contemporary perspective. It includes such iconic works as Richard Serra's Hand Catching Lead (1968) and Alina Szapocznikow’s Photosculptures (1971) and new works by contemporary artists, Thea Djordjadze, Nairy Baghramian, Carol Bove, Gabriel Kuri, Sarah Lucas, Shahryar Nashat, and Tatiana Trouvé .

Supported by Naomi Milgrom AO

The participation of Nairy Baghramian, Shahryar Nashat and Tatiana Trouvé has been supported by Victorian College of the Arts' Master Teacher Program, funded by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria. Tatiana Trouvé’s visit is also supported by Alliance Francaise Melbourne.

Supporting Partner:     

Both Opening this Friday
10 August 2012, 6-8pm

EVERYONE WELCOME

From top:

Pat Brassington

Radar, 2009 (detail)
pigment print
Courtesy the artist, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
and Stills Gallery, Sydney and Bett Gallery, Hobart

Carol Bove
La Traversee Difficile, 2008 (detail)
mixed media
187 x 244 x 122 cm
La Colección Jumex, Mexico

SCULPTURAL MATTER ARTIST TALKS

Public programs for the upcoming Sculptural Matter exhibition:
 
Shahryar Nashat
Thursday 9 August 12.30-1.30pm
Shahryar Nashat engages with museum practices of collecting, reproducing, framing and display as well as questions relating to appropriation and artistic reuse. Lighting, plinths, pedestals, and modes of positing and projecting all play pivotal roles in Nashat’s video installations, sculptures and photographs and highlight how display and reproduction affect meaning. Characterized by an emphasis on staging and rehearsal, Nashat presents a series of partial visibilities constructed through dramatic montages, interruptions and abridgements. These incomplete representations suggest fundamental desires and anxieties, at times framing the body as the locus of an unconscious conflict, or building psychological tension around both the production of an object and its reception. Shahryar Nashat is conducting a series of studio visits with VCA students while in Australia.

Tatiana Trouvé
Thursday 9 August 6-7pm
Tatiana Trouvé is a contemporary visual artist based in Paris. Born in Cosenza, Italy in 1968, she later spent time living in Senegal, the Netherlands, and the South of France before moving to Paris in the mid nineties. Trouvé’s work spans drawing, sculpture and painting brought together in architecture inspired installations reminiscent of office, laboratory, retail display, warehouse or workshop spaces. She first came to international prominence via her Bureau of Implicit Activities (1997-2003), developed over a number of years, which preserved traces of the evolution of her art practice. Characterised by unexpected shifts in scale, casting of objects and through responsiveness to each particular site, her psychologically-charged scenes continue to evoke imagined ‘activities’ and processes of material transformation, creating eerie states of suspension and an almost palpable sense of absence.

Nairy Baghramian
Tuesday 14 August 6-7pm
Nairy Baghramian’s photographic and sculptural-based works examine political and social systems of power, encompassing questions of context, institutional framing, and the production and reception of contemporary art. While making use of traditional sculptural methodologies of casting and modelling, Baghramian draws on a broad range of design and literary references, and art-historical debates around minimalism, to create new and more open-ended possibilities for sculpture. Her sleek, polished aluminum pieces and cast rubber forms are often arranged in intimate mise-en-scènes that highlight the absence of a body while imbuing the forms themselves with bodily presence. Nairy Baghramian is conducting a series of workshops with VCA students while in Australia.

Federation Hall
Grant St
Victorian College of the Arts
Southbank

Free registration online: vca.unimelb.edu.au/events

For a full list of Public Programs for this exhibition season: www.accaonline.org.au/WhatsOn

Shahryar Nashat
Photoscaled 3 (Yellow), 2011
C-print on paper
50 x 44 cm
Unique
Courtesy the Artist and Silberkuppe, Berlin

A FURTHER 50 WORKS THAT MATTER...and, WHY NOT! Art history in free-fall with Artistic Director, Juliana Engberg. A very limited number of tickets are available for the final two sessions of A FURTHER 50 WORKS THAT MATTER...and, WHY NOT!  When From 6pm Wednesday 15 August & Wednesday 22 August Where ACCA Foyer Cost $46 for a single session, $80 both sessions.  Call 9697 9908 to book your place. The ACCA gallery and bar will be open from 5pm Tax deductible professional development for art professionals (where it is sufficiently connected to your work activities).