Geniale Dilletanten: Subculture in Germany in the 1980s
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
13 NOV 2015 - 27 FEB 2016
Accompanying Geniale Dilletanten is a slim representation from the comparable Melbourne scene of that period + Australian ingenious amateurs .
It includes some early drawings, manifesto drafts and photos of SLAVE GUITARS material. There's even a German connection : in February 1980 the Cologne artist magazine Salon (No.8) ...
There's also a proof sheet of SLAVE GUITARS publicity images.
"The Goethe-Institut’s international touring exhibition Geniale Dilletanten (Brilliant Dilletantes): Subculture in Germany in the 1980s explores the influence of German punk artists, filmmakers and seven bands including Einstürzende Neubauten."
"Geniale Dilletanten (Brilliant Dilletantes), the deliberately misspelled title of the concert held in Berlin’s Tempodrom in 1981, has become a synonym for a brief era of artistic upheaval in Germany."
+ Australian ingenious amateurs
Accompanying Geniale Dilletanten is a slim representation from the comparable Melbourne scene of that period + Australian ingenious amateurs .
It includes some early drawings, manifesto drafts and photos of SLAVE GUITARS material. There's even a German connection : in February 1980 the Cologne artist magazine Salon (No.8) ...
... published this early drawing of Slave Guitars of the Art Cult.
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These were photographed at Art Projects (566 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne). The sheet also includes a couple of rare exterior views of that important Melbourne gallery (1979-1984), now demolished.
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Art Projects was founded by Melbourne artist John Nixon. Artists who exhibited there included Peter Cripps, Bonita Ely, John Nixon, Imants Tillers, Mike Parr, Ania Walwicz, Jenny Watson, Tony Clark, Brett Colquhoun, John Davis, Robert Jacks, Robert MacPherson, Robert Owen, Richard Dunn, Jill Orr, John Dunkley-Smith, Virginia Coventry, John Matthews, Dale Frank, Peter Tyndall, The Society for Other Photography and, in the context of 80s Melbourne + Australian ingenious amateurs, ANTI-MUSIC, which is not represented in this exhibition.
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
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