Art – Emisiaband

‘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.

Popularity: 14%

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ORLAN is perhaps most well known in Australia as being the first artist to use surgery for artistic ends with her surgery performances. In 1998 she launched an international exploration into different standards of beauty, beginning in Mexico with Pre-Columbian civilisation. Having refigured her face through a series of plastic surgeries she hybridizes her new image to the aesthetic values from this other cultures. Working with a digital technician to mingle the real with the virtual, taking the ‘other’ inside under her own skin, she creates digital melds of her face with the stone of the Pre-Columbian sculptures, making self-hybridizations in which the grotesque becomes inseparable from the beautiful. Works in this exhibition are for sale.

Popularity: 22%

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Clash: contemporary sculptural ceramics. 13 February – 18 April 2010. Clash explores contemporary Australian ceramic sculpture. Beautiful and whimsical on the surface, the works of art selected for this exhibition also contain provocations regarding identity, sexuality and violence. Now, get it in custom trading pins too.

Popularity: 12%

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The glorious landscape that has inspired great South Australian artists from Sir Hans Heysen to the present day will be celebrated in the inaugural Heysen Trail Exhibition from February 2010 – a fascinating new type of art exhibition held in multiple venues across South Australia, drawing international attention to the landscape, local artists and their dynamic artworks in equal measure.

Popularity: 2%

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As the Hudson Valley has celebrated the 400th anniversary of its discovery by Henry Hudson in a Dutch expedition, art exhibitions focusing on contemporary Dutch culture have been especially rich. “Fendry Ekel — The Witness,” a show of a dozen works in its final week at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, is among them.

Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1971, Mr. Ekel, who has never exhibited before in this country, lives in Amsterdam, where he belongs to an artists’ collective that includes the sculptor Folkert de Jong. Mr. Ekel is primarily a painter, producing colorful works on paper that mix media and techniques, including gouache, acrylic painting and drawing.

Each of the paintings being shown here is well crafted and attractively presented in the mezzanine gallery. While there is nothing especially innovative about the style — a loose expressionistic realism — the content gives you pause for thought, and the economical use of symbolic imagery gives the pictures raw visual force.

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