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.


02 May 2019

Card Reader


[pro]master
All in 1 
Card Reader


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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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01 May 2019

Image Reader


 

Image Reader considers how do we visually read, internalise, process or decode the images that circulate around us? Engaging with four artists who destabilise a linear reading of the image—Guy Grabowsky, Nina Gilbert, Ry Haskings and Eliza Hutchison—Image Reader explores the power photography has to visually communicate, and subconsciously influence our reading of the world.
Acutely attuned to this subliminal process of visually reading, the artists in Image Reader obscure the lines between the legible and the indecipherable, moving between digital, analogue and sculptural photographic practices. By highlighting the non-linearity of memory, the architectural and site-specific contexts images inhabit, or through drawing our attention to the overlooked in beguiling ways, Image Reader points towards a visual language that is simultaneously perplexing, deeply idiosyncratic and constantly present, whether we can read it or not.
Curated by Madé Spencer-Castle
EXHIBITION
06 April – 02 June 2019

ARTIST TALKS
Thursday, 16th May 2019, 6—7.30pm

CONTACT
Centre for Contemporary Photography
404 George St, Fitzroy Victoria 3065, Australia

info@ccp.org.au
+61 39417 1549
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 Image Reader at CCP opening night.                Photo: J Forsyth

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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30 April 2019

upcoming auction | La femme de TAR en noir


Striking Vignettes Illustrate the Influence 
of Africa and Oceania on Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary Art

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Chaim Soutine, 
La femme en rouge. 
Estimate $6,000,000–8,000,000.  

Iatmul Hook Figure, 
Blackwater River Region, 
Middle Sepik River, 
East Sepik Province, 
Papua New Guinea. 
Estimate $250,000–350,000. 

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29 April 2019

Knick-Knack Han§ing Rock TAR




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28 April 2019

rocks TAR


Tu es TAR ...
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Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram
Aedificabo Ecclesiam meam,
Et portae inferi non praevalebunt adversus eam:
Et tibi dabo claves
Regni coelorum.

Quodcumque ligaveris super terram,
Erit ligatum et in coelis;
Et quodcumque solveris super terram
Erit solutum et in coelis.

Matthew 16:18-19
 James Brunt at 2018 European stone stacking championships 

Thou art Peter,
and upon this rock I will build my church;
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

And I will give unto thee the keys
    of the kingdom of heaven:
and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth
    shall be bound in heaven:
and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth
    shall be loosed in heaven.

Matthew 16:18 King James Version


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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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25 April 2019

The Fallen (Lest We Forget)






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21 April 2019

An Easter Observance




 Swanston & Flinders Sts intersection, Melbourne, 8 April 2019


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 Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world
 - John 1 : 29


Today on ABC RN

False necessities: Is 'taste' enough to morally justify the mass slaughter of animals?

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/theminefield/2019-04-17/11017518


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19 April 2019

PERCEPTO! presents! The Tingler of TAR!

 
WHEN THE SCREEN SCREAMS
YOU'LL SCREAM TOO...
IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE!



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17 April 2019

Notre-Dame de Paris


 Victor Hugo
 Vision of Notre-Dame, 1831
 charcoal and India ink on paper

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 evening of 15 April 2019
 Paris









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16 April 2019

meTAR-print


While on this Harry Shunk sequence, here's a reworking by TAR of Shunk's 1969 portrait of Barnett Newman at Universal Limited Art Editions, New York, regarding an edition print of his Untitled Etching #2.


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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 
         
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