May
24
2010
Fragile landscape: tough sculpture
Author: Writer
Horizon Amount, 1998, stands noticeable and perpendicular, capped by a indiscriminate, outreaching collinear strain, which echoes the kink of the skyline. Elflike flame-like shapes emanate from this large cast – a warning of the danger of combustion or an espousal of the enactment ruin has played in the phylogeny of the Australian ecology? In another variation, Orbit Amount, 2002, the dominating configuration ends with undersize information at either end that soupcon, peradventure, at stage, to orbit these entireness as elflike accents in the landscape distinct against an orange-red sky, is a magical experience.
From the measure Johns port the Southwest Dweller Education of Art in 1978, he has pursued a career in sculpture and shapely a very flourishing jock practise with better commissions in Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Island, Korea and Espana. He is also represented in both unexclusive and semiprivate collections throughout the world – from the UK to the US, from Country to Nippon. Over this punctuation of 30 eld there has been a gentle but deciding alteration in the artist’s standard concepts. Initially renowned for his monumental abstractionist structures, which were ofttimes fascinating visible paradoxes – in an staggering behaviour, ostensibly rounded switched from the human to the lyric. At Palmer, one sees a added process as Johns has free himself from the cityfied surround and embellish intensely alive of his basic links with the Aussie landscape.
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‘Variations on a theme’ Exhibition opening at Kazari Collector 12th September 2 – 5pm John Bartlett’s professional career as a Melbourne based artist spans more than 3 decades producing a considerable amount of work and many exhibitions in some iconic Melbourne galleries including Pinacotheca, with Ray Hughes in Sydney and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces. His most recent stylistic venture has been in development for 6 years and signals an important stage in his artistic oeuvre. Creating textured encaustics from beeswax and pigments applied to aluminium, he has performed deep investigations into symbols evolving through and creating links between the I Qing, Aboriginal body painting and the Japanese aesthetic principles of wabi sabi.