NEW010 is a little bit NEWER
PRESENTED BY THE BALNAVES FOUNDATION
For the past eight years ACCA has offered six/seven promising Australian artists the opportunity to make a new work and have it shown in the annual NEW exhibition. Next year NEW010 will shake things up a bit.
ACCA’s curatorial team has joined with prominent Melbourne architectural and interior design company NEXUS Designs to recreate, re-vision and refresh the exhibition galleries. The designers have turned the space into seven individual sites, each with their own new intervention –plinths have been introduced, walls cut into and ceilings expanded.
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Kit Wise will create the ultimate relaxation destination in a series of new works for ACCA @ MIRKA.
Kit Wise creates large-scale digital landscapes where the ideal city meets with nature. “Utopia in arcadia,” he calls it.
The artist, a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art in the Faculty of Art and Design at Monash University, borrows from western medieval narrative painting, the European tradition of the picturesque and science fiction cinema to make picture perfect, high-tech cities that sit against beautiful landscapes – usually with an uncanny twist.
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A little knowledge can go a long way … A lot of professionals are crackpots
Abuse of power comes as no surprise … Being sure of yourself means you’re a fool … Believing in rebirth is the same as admitting defeat …
The first Australian survey of works by celebrated New York artist Jenny Holzer – famous for her ongoing text series Truisms – will open at ACCA in December.
The Truisms are metaphors, aphorisms and Holzer’s own musings about the state of the world, which blend like advertisements into the urban environment – projected onto high-profile public buildings, LED screens, on street posters or stickers placed randomly on parking metres, telephone booths and public furniture.
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Brisbane’s Andrew Porfyri, one of the city’s most successful photographers, has been awarded three prestigious titles including the 2009 AIPP Australian Documentary Photographer of the Year; the 2009 AIPP Queensland Professional Photographer of the Year; and the 2009 Recipient of the Mark Gowlett Memorial Award. To celebrate, he is hosting an exhibition of his works at his Annerley Gallery from October 28 through until November 13.
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International artists explore the ghostly inhabitations of the ‘home’ in a new group show presented as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival.
A deluge of water floods from the windows of a gothic, Pennsylvanian house in David Haines and Joyce Hinterding’s House 2; a young women is lured menacingly by the ghost of herself in the film The Likening by David Noonan and Simon Trevaks; and former inhabitants of a German housing estate, once used to house Nazi construction workers and displaced persons in post-World War 2 Europe, discuss their former home in Michaela Melián’s Föhrenwald.
The Dwelling, curated by ACCA’s Artistic Director Juliana Engberg and organised by Hannah Mathews for MIAF 2009, brings together a series of spooky works from leading contemporary artists, each exploring the surreal, the haunted and the very strange.
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Picture This 09 - $10,000 in Prizes
You have just over a week to get your entries in for our Picture This 09 Photographic Exhibition and Prize - All themes. All entries accepted. Work does not have to be framed. Judges: Naomi Cass - Director, Centre for Contemporary Photography CCP, Mark Jamieson Director BSG. An entry form is attached with further information. Show opens Friday Sept 18 at 6pm and runs 11-24 Sep 2009. Deadline for entries midnight 30 August 2009. Image: Christo Crocker 2008 2nd prize winner.
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The Helen Macpherson Smith Commission will this year see London-based Australian artist David Noonan return home, fresh from breakthrough international solo exhibitions at the Chisenhale Gallery in London and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
Noonan studied fine art at Ballarat University, completed post graduate studies at the Victorian College of the Arts and exhibited successfully in Australia before moving to London, where he has clocked up an impressive exhibition history which most recently has included exhibiting in this year’s Tate Triennial Altermodern.
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