MELBOURNE ART FAIR 22-25 FEB'24

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#Exhibition Jonny Niesche 'Atoms Encode' at @1301s

#Exhibition Jonny Niesche 'Atoms Encode' at @1301sw_melbourne until September 10

Niesche works across an expanded field of painting, sculpture and abstraction, where his vividly coloured work wraps the viewer in total sensory stimulation. The seductive, iridescent surfaces of his paintings hum and shimmer with pigment, colour that seems to float slightly above the voile surface. The effect is intensified by the indistinct edges between bands of colour that surround the dark middle ground. As one tone blurs and dissolves into the next, a silky insubstantiality of pure colour and sensation emerges.

Image: Jonny Niesche, 𝘈𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘴 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦, 2022. Courtesy the artist and 1301sw, Naarm/Melbourne.

#art #contemporaryart #jonnyniesche #1301sw @jonnyhonky

#Exhibition Hoda Ashfar 'Speak the Wind' at @milan

#Exhibition Hoda Ashfar 'Speak the Wind' at @milanigallery until August 27

In the islands of the Strait of Hormuz off the souther coast of Iran a distinctive local culture has emerged as the result of many centuries of cultural and economic exchange, the traces of which are seen not only in the material culture of these islands but also in the customs and beliefs of their inhabitants.

Central to these beliefs in the existence of winds - generally thought of as harmful - that may possess a person, causing her to experience illness or disease, and a corresponding ritual practice involving incense, music and movement in which an hereditary cult leader speaks with the wind through the afflicted patience in one of many local or foreign tongues in order to negotiate its exit.

This project documents the history of these winds and the visible traces they have left on these islands and their inhabitants - a visible record of the invisible seen through the eye of the imagination.

Image: Hoda Ashfar, 𝘜𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘥 #10 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴, 2020. Courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery, Meanjin/Brisbane.

#art #contemporaryart #hodaashfar #milanigallery

#Exhibition Julia Gutman 'Muses' at @sullivanstrum

#Exhibition Julia Gutman 'Muses' at @sullivanstrumpf until August 13

Gutman reuses found textiles to produce ‘patchworks’ that merge personal and collective histories with canonical paintings to explore themes of femininity, intimacy and memory. The work is made almost entirely out of clothing worn and donated by the artist’s friends and family; their personal traces imbued in each piece of textile becomes a significant thematic constituent. With each stitch, both nurture and rupture occur – the process is as tender as it is aggressive.

Image: Julia Gutman, 𝘉𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴, 2022. Courtesy the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf, Gadigal Country/Sydney.

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#Exhibition Kien Situ 'Umbra' at @yavuzgallery unt

#Exhibition Kien Situ 'Umbra' at @yavuzgallery until August 13

Umbra, the darkest and most impenetrable part of a shadow, is centred around a large pillar of Chinese ink, which is surrounded by cast ink artworks, including a large-scale wall installation. Primed by his diasporic Chinese-Vietnamese upbringing and training in modern architecture, Situ conjures Umbra as an otherworldly point of convergence between East and West.

Image: Exhibition view of Kien Situ 'Umbra' at Yavuz Gallery, Gadigal Country/Sydney. Photo by @docqment. Image courtesy the artist and Yavuz Gallery.

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#Exhibition Lindy Lee 'A world of dew, and within

#Exhibition Lindy Lee 'A world of dew, and within every dewdrop a world of struggle' at @suttongallerymelbourne until August 27

The title of Lindy Lee’s exhibition is a haiku by Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa. Within Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism and Lee’s artistic vocabulary, the metaphor of dew drops – and entire worlds contained within them – has been consistently deployed to convey the transience of human existence and the cyclical nature of time.

Image: Lindy Lee, 𝘈 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘵 𝘋𝘢𝘸𝘯, 𝘈 𝘉𝘶𝘣𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 (detail), 2021. Courtesy the artist and Sutton Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne.

#art #contemporaryart #lindylee #suttongallery @lindylee.13

#Exhibition JORDAN GOGOS 'UN/CONSTRAINED' at @gall

#Exhibition JORDAN GOGOS 'UN/CONSTRAINED' at @gallerysallydancuthbert until August 28

Melbourne Art Fair 2022 ambassador and multidisciplinary artist Jordan Gogos' practice encompasses functional art and compression wall textiles, as well as his eponymous fashion label, Iordanes Spyridon Gogos. Sharing a cross-disciplinary interest in the arts that unites seemingly disparate ideas. Gogos works tirelessly, traversing materials, shape and form.

Image: Jordan Gogos, 𝘡𝘪𝘨-𝘻𝘢𝘨𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴, 2022. Courtesy the artist and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Gadigal Country/Sydney.

#art #contemporaryart #jordangogos #gallerysallydancuthbert @jordangogos

#Exhibition Angelica Mesiti 'Future Perfect Contin

#Exhibition Angelica Mesiti 'Future Perfect Continuous' at @annaschwartzgallery until October 8

The title for Mesiti’s work, 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘰𝘶𝘴, describes a verb tense for actions that continue up until a point in the future. 𝘉𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸, 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬. It is a specific grammatical construction for a time that projects forwards in anticipation of events that have not yet happened, but will likely happen. It is speculative and real at the same time.

Image: Angelica Mesiti, 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘰𝘶𝘴 (still), 2022. Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne.

#art #contemporaryart #angelicamesiti #annaschwartzgallery

#Exhibition Mason Kimber 'Lustre' at @sophiegannon

#Exhibition Mason Kimber 'Lustre' at @sophiegannongallery until August 13

Kimber's practice engages with the social and material aspects of architecture, with a particular focus on their relationship to memory. By reworking images, imprints and cast fragments into new compositions, his work registers the histories that accumulate in the built fabric of cities and how they shape our understanding of place.

Image: Mason Kimber, 𝘓𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦 1, 2022. Courtesy the artist and Sophie Gannon Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne.

#art #contemporaryart #masonkimber #sophiegannongallery @masonkimber