David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :
'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)
(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia.
(2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.
Theatre of the Actors of Regard : A painting by the British artist David Hockney has sold at a Christie's auction in New York for $US90 million.
In this TAR tableau, a refusalist turns her gaze away from that work.
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by Raelene Kerinauia
Matriarchs:
Motherlines of the Yolgnu and Tiwi Islands
15 November to 15 December 2018
Opening conversation: Sunday 18 November at 2 pm
With Will Stubbs, Co-ordinator Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre and Nongirrnga Marawili, artist
Exhibition dates: 15 November to 15 December 2018
Artists: Kaye Brown, Raelene Kerinauia, Banduk Marika, Nongirrnga Marawili, Liawaday Marawili, Marrnyula Munungurr, Mulkun Wirrpanda, Mrs Wirrpanda (Galuma Maymuru) and Michelle Woody Minnapinni
Presented with: Buku Art Centre and Jilamara Arts and Crafts Association, Milikapiti Community (Snake Bay), Melville Island, NT
Matriarchs: Motherlines of the Yolgnu and Tiwi Islands brings together generations of artists committed to keeping Yolgnu and Tiwi law and culture strong. The exhibition considers their work from the perspective of a feminist genealogy tracing matriarchal and collegiate relationships.
8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney
Opening Hours
11 to 6 Thursday to Saturday*, (Saturday close at 4pm)
Closed public holidays.
Raelene Kerinauia
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This scroll about a woman carrying firewood and flowers is by the Zen nun Otagaki Rengetsu aka Lotus Moon, renowned in her own time (1791-1875) as now for her poetry, calligraphy and pottery.
collection FIAPCE
Rengetsu hand-formed her own pottery and painted her own scroll imagery. She also often combined her inscriptions with the work of other potters and painters. The signature and seal on this scroll's image are by another artist.
Her haiku here appears close to that on a similar scroll dated 1867 :
The tips of firewood
she breaks off and bundles
are also flowery—
the spring wind
of Mount Oohara.
Born around this time, the Irish poet WB Yeats (1865-1939) would later write :
ALL the words that I gather,
And all the words that I write,
Must spread out their wings untiring,
And never rest in their flight,
Till they come where your sad, sad heart is,
And sing to you in the night,
Beyond where the waters are moving,
Storm-darken'd or starry bright.
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Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale, New York, yesterday...
LOT 6 C
Study of Henrietta Moraes Laughing
Estimate
USD 14,000,000 - USD 18,000,000
Price realised
USD 21,687,500
Francis Bacon (1909-1992)
Study of Henrietta Moraes Laughing
signed, titled and dated :
'Study of Henrietta Moraes Laughing
Francis Bacon 1969' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
14 x 12 in. (35.6 x 30.5 cm.)
Painted in 1969.
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Laughing Christ (1970)
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Last night we listened to the ABC.TV documentary
Finding The Field.
To a hurlyburly of 1968 imagery, it starts with
Gioachino Rossini's William Tell Overture.
Then Jerry Lewis mimes over-typing-self with Title
to LeRoy Anderson's The Typewriter, as we in '68
arrive through the arch of the modernew NGV to Tchaikovsky's Dance of The Sugar Plum Fairy
and reflect there on Mel Ramsden and Ian Burn
to a J S Bach organ composition.
Fifty years pass and staff install The Field Revisited
to Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
Exeunt to Happiness Does Not Wait.
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music credits
poetsoftheinterverse
William Tell Overture
Composed by Rossini
Performed by the South German Philharmonic Orchestra
Piros Classical Records
The Typewriter
by Leroy Anderson
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Original composition by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution
3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Bach, Organ Sonata No 2 BWV 526,
1st movement, Vivace (C Minor)
Performed by Stephen Malinowski
Keyboard Concerto in A major, BWV 1055, 1. Allegro
Original composition by Johann Sebastian Bach
Synthesized by Carey R. Meltz
Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578 performed by E. Power Briggs
Courtesy of Sony BMG Music Entertainment
By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd
Bach’s Sinfonia for Cantata No 29
The Grotto Electrasynth-O-Magneticpolyphonic Orchestra
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3, 3rd Movement
As Performed by The Raleigh Ringers, Raleigh, NC, USA
Arranged for Handbells by Hart Morris
Conducted by David M. Harris
Brandenburg Concerto No 3, BWV 1048, 3rd mvt.
Performed by Early Music ensemble Voices of Music
Original composition by Johann Sebastian Bach
A Soalin
Batteast/Mezzetti/Stookey
Performed by Robert Johnson
Celestial Cantabile
Composed by St George E/Russe L
Courtesy of EMI Production Music
Le Carneval des Animaux by Saint Saens:
Introduction and Royal March of the Lion
Licensed courtesy of One Media iP Ltd
Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé, Suite II - Lever du Jour
Performed by The Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by Geoffrey Simon
Recording: CACDS4027 Five O’Clock Foxtrot
Used by arrangement with Cala Records Limited
The Four Seasons-Summer-Presto
Composed by Antonio Vivaldi
© Flipper Srl, licensed by Fable Music Pty Ltd (Australia)
Happiness Does Not Wait
Performed by Olafur Arnalds
Published by Kobalt Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd
Courtesy of Erased Tapes Records Ltd
ISRC:GBWZD1305009
We were interested last month to see, online, images of the recent "Dialogue" paintings by the Korean artist Lee Ufan at Pace Gallery, New York.
Exhibition text : click here
Hyperalleric article : click here
Lee Ufan, “Dialogue” (2016), acrylic on canvas, 86″ x 115″
(image courtesy Pace Gallery, photo by Mark Waldhauser, © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris)
Lee Ufan, “Dialogue” (2017), acrylic on canvas, 90″ × 72″
(image courtesy Pace Gallery, © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris)
Same-sui : same as it ever was
In this Edo period sansui (Shan Shui) by Nakabayashi Chikutō (Japan, 1776-1853), in this falling transition from mountains to the see, we note here too, as with Lee Ufan's recent Dialogues, the meticulous systematic horizontal brushstrokes that model this theatre of regard into form and appearance.
collection : FIAPCE
Same-same : same diff
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This old man
He stayed home
Stopped The Nation
On his own.
With a knick-knack paddywhack,
Give the nag a name,
The Cliffsofmoher
A sporting shame.
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Book Launch at Ian Potter Museum of Art
'Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening Our Eyes'
Thursday 29 November 2018, 6.00 - 7.30
This pioneering publication outlines the exciting and often controversial development of Australia’s public galleries and the changing conditions that have determined their exhibition programs from the 1960s to the present. The extravagantly illustrated chapters are based on the extensive research of four authors associated with four universities from three states, which trace the growth and evolution of curatorial practice in Australia’s rapidly changing art scene. Read how initial consultations between state gallery directors in the 1950s and 60s led to the emergence of national endeavors under the guidance of Gough Whitlam.
Richly annotated with multiple appendices and a comprehensive index of more than 1,500 entries, this publication is an incredible resource for Australian art history that concludes with an analysis of the value of exhibitions that enables visitors to 'see art with fresh eyes and see the world anew'.
Join Jane Clark, Senior Research Curator, MONA and the authors for the Melbourne launch of Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening Our Eyes by Joanna Mendelssohn, Catherine De Lorenzo, Alison Inglis, Catherine Speck.
Followed by refreshments and book signing.
And so the long eye-opening project continues...
strangled and burned at the stake :
Lord, ope the King of Englands eyes.
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Tuesday 30 October, 6pm
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Join the roundtable discussion on the intersection of form,
space and movement in contemporary practice, alongside
ACCA’s exhibition Eva Rothschild: Kosmos.
Speakers include multidisciplinary practitioners working across
art, architecture, design, choreography and theory.
Together they will consider the social potential of sculpture,
the idea of deceptive materiality, as well as the negotiation
between colour, space, scale and disruption in relation to
our experience of sculpture and acts of ‘hard looking’.
Speakers:
Jane Caught, architect and co-founder of multi-disciplinary
collective, SIBLING
Jo Lloyd, choreographer and dancer; and choreographer of
CUTOUT in collaboration with Eva Rothschild at ACCA
Grace McQuilten, art historian, artist and curator; Leader of
the Contemporary Art and Social Transformation Research
Group in the School of Art, RMIT University
Simone Slee, artist and academic at the Victorian College of
the Arts
Fleur Watson, curator and editor specialising in architecture
and design; and Executive Curator, Lyon Housemuseum,
Melbourne
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