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ART EXHIBIT
No|thing
Venue: UCA Gallery, 46 Lower Main Rd, Observatory. Tel: (021)
447 4132.
Gallery Hours: Mon - Fri: 10:00am - 5:00pm; Sat: 9:00am - 1:00pm
Duration: 18 Nov - 12 Dec 2009
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No|thing links five innovative artists into a mergence that
explores those blank, empty and evaded spaces that exist in space, mind
and emotion.
The show finds the gallery space divided into allocated
areas, starting with Bronwyn Lace who works an installation into an
existing space occupied by nothing. 'Anemophilous' - the Latin term for
wind pollination which literally means 'wind loving' -is approximately
2000 hand-constructed Dandelion-type seeds attached to a wire frame, in a
formation which resembles seeds being blown in the wind and dispersed
through space.
Engaging in a dialogue about the negation of emotion Greg
Streak exhibits installation works that are bleached of emotion. Using a
monotone colour-scheme, Streak’s clever conceptualisation embodies minimal
works that are about nothing, but naturally about something.
Seduced by liminal spaces, Trasi Henen
re-interprets things that are still waiting to become something into dryly
analytical, yet sensuous paintings. She ambiguously explores the
empty spaces left behind by something or someone that is missing.
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Ricky Burnett’s streamings of consciousness over 12 works
on paper in a series of marks, scribblings and gestures, exposes the nude
areas of the page. Highly evocative, he allows a deceptive naivety occupy
what is essentially a blank page, a place of personal space.
Performing a sound installation using
no-input sound on the opening night, Righard Kapp
will produce unique sound art that will be recorded and
looped during the course of the exhibition. Kapp’s intuitive
improvisational process generates complex and sublime sound-scapes that
explore infinity.
Bronwyn Lace, Greg Streak, Ricky Burnett, Righard Kapp and
Trasi Henen look at the concept of nothing and reveal those empty spaces
we experience. A show of intentionality and a reaction against the filling
up of art with meaningless and superfluous things; works without frills,
without things, with nothing added on are compiled into this definitively
minimal show.
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