Towards a Theoria of the Pure Site

Meanwhile, warning : site of contamination

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TAR at TarraWarra : MEDIA PREVIEW & PICTURE OPPORTUNITY

TarraWarra Biennial 2018

FROM WILL TO FORM

Exhibition curated by Emily Cormack

3 August – 6 November 2018

WHAT: An opportunity to interview the curator, Emily Cormack and selected artists in the Museum before the official opening. To capture pictures of curator, artists, performances and artwork installed in this exhibition. 

WHEN: Friday 3 August 2018, 10 to 10.50am before the opening, 11am to 1pm

WHERE: TarraWarra Museum of Art, 313 Healesville-Yarra Glen Road, Healesville   http://www.twma.com.au/getting-here/

WHO: Curator: Emily Cormack

ARTISTS: Belle Bassin, Dale Harding, Bridie Lunney, Mike Parr, artists from Erub Arts

Please advise if you would like to interview other TarraWarra Biennial 2018 artists not listed above.

Below : Claire Lambe, Witnessing Bacon 2018, wool, silk and cotton tapestry; digital prints; bronze basin, dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist; Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne; and Francis Bacon Studio at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland

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I am curious ] TAR (

from :
The persistence of curiosity 

in documentary profiles
by Joanna Di Mattia
July 27, 2018
The Monthly

final para : 

One biographical documentary can never capture the complexity of an entire life. Even the best examples of the genre are incomplete in some way. We might do better to take McQueen’s advice – 
“If you want to know me, just look at my work.” 
McQueen doesn’t just tell but shows us who the designer was. In the end, his counsel holds the key to best understanding all the lives we encounter in these films – inside their creations, their work, lies something closest to the truth of who they are.

TAR might add :

If you want to know you, just look at your looking.

  Alexander McQueen and Kate Moss backstage at his spring/summer 
  2001 show. Photograph: © Ann Ray

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Vale Fairfax : Nine Entertainment takes 51%

This from Paddy Manning at The Monthly Today, just in :

Vale Fairfax 

Nine’s takeover ends a 177-year history

Good afternoon, 

As I file, the remaining Fairfax Media journalists are dragging themselves to their nth sombre briefing from CEO Greg Hywood, as they have been doing for the best part of a decade. They will be hoping against hope that they will be able to keep doing the job they love, and contemplating what that might mean under new management at Nine. The death of Fairfax has been pronounced so many times that we are nearly numb to it. But today’s announced Nine takeover, if it completes, really will mark the end of a 177-year history, and is a heavy blow for quality, independent journalism and for media diversity in this country. The fact that the takeover is the entirely predictable consequence of a shabby, last-minute deal on cross-media ownership laws late last year, and that the prime minister has welcomed it, is just more salt in the wound. READ ON

Also from The Monthly, this essay by Eric Beecher, July 2013 :

The death of Fairfax and the end of newspapers

Rot from within (Young Warwick; The Rivers of Gold...) and attack from without. (Including relentless attack on the ABC network.) Sad, bad, serious!

FIAPCE  

- 5 December 1990 -   

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GERTRUDE CONTEMPORARY

Join us THIS WEEKEND

for a special look into our new building in its entirety

including the galleries and artist studios.

Saturday 28 July - Sunday 29 July

11am - 4:30pm

21 - 31 High Street, Preston VIC 3072

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Twenty minute tours guided by Gertrude Contemporary staff 

will be held at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm & 3pm  

No bookings necessary.
   

Designed by architecture firm Edition Office,

Gertrude’s High Street premises includes custom-made

spaces for our two exhibition galleries, sixteen artist studios

for our two-year studio program and administrative offices. 

 Gertrude Contemporary was recently shortlisted for the 

Victorian Architecture Awards 2018.
  

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clear and direct

We are always pleased to receive the generous gift that is each new blog post from Marcus Bunyan at Art Blart.

From his current personal offering, we are still chewing the cud of his introductory last sentence, below :

Paris in film 2018

These photographs were taken on a trip to Paris in 2017 using my Mamiya twin-lens C220 medium format camera shot on Kodak Ektra 100 colour negative film.

They are only basic jpg scans of the negs, full frame, no cropping, and I have colour corrected as best I can, noting that all digital images look different from computer monitor to monitor – one of the perennial hazards of looking at work online. They have not been sequenced at the moment.

The photographs seem to hang well together as a body of work. I would love to get good scans and print some of them.

Through their clear visualisation, the photographs speak directly to the viewer.

Marcus

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The See | On Line One

Young Businessman Wearing Lei 

and Listening to The See

- Getty Images

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TAR at AGNSW

Spacemakers and roomshakers 

ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

12 JULY - 21 OCTOBER 2018

Experience some of the most immersive and expansive artworks in the Art Galery of New South Wales' collection.

Employing light, sound, fabric, air, spices, these artworks also use the space of the gallery as a medium to be filled, tested, stretched, altered and above all energised. In the process, they enlist gallery-goers as collaborators, test subjects and ‘space explorers’ in distinctive sensory worlds.
  
– Media Release AGNSW

 below : Nike Savvas, 'Atomic: full of love full of wonder'

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verse + verso

LOOKING AT the auction lists 
for Melbourne and Tokyo
tomorrow : two paintings of
persons supported, looking 
to and looking fro

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 Lot 3123
 PETER CHURCHER (born 1964)
 Self Portrait Looking Away (1999)
 oil on canvas
 signed and dated lower centre: P. Churcher 99
 86 x 76cm

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 Description of item (translation) :
 It is Yosa Buson figure figure. 
 Paper book. Handwriting. Some spots, broken, there 
 are places of gnawing. 

 Please carefully look at the image and offer a bid.
 Size : Main Paper Vertical 85.4 cm Width 27.3 cm
 Overall Vertical 152.5 cm Horizontal 31.4 cm 

 Shaft 37.3 cm

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Edwin Tanner 'Mathematical Expressionist' at TarraWarra Museum of Art (until 15 July)

Edwin Tanner is one of our favorite artists of Melbourne, along with John Brack, Eric Thake and Robert Rooney.

 Edwin Tanner

 Self Portrait of a Public Servant 

 1953

 Edwin Tanner

 Double negation of family resemblances. Homage to 

 Wittgenstein 

 1967-68

And, just finished at Charles Nodrum Gallery,
'Edwin Tanner : Works on Paper from the Estate'.


 Edwin Tanner 

 (Untitled  - Study for an Astrological Mural) 

 c.1967
 Charles Nodrum Gallery

 Edwin Tanner

 "I think that the river is a strong brown god - sullen,

 untamed and intractable" but wholly devoid of fish

 1972

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 Edwin Tanner, Prof Walter Diesendorf and Mrs Shirley Tanner 

 with dog Ethelred the Ready, 1974

 Fryer Library Pictorial Collection, UQFL477, PIC406 (detail)

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Down on their luck

AGWA Foundation Picture Club (July)

Headline image - Frederick McCubbin Down on his luck 1889. Oil on canvas, 145 x 183.3 x 14 cm (framed) 114.5 x 152.5 cm (painting). State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased 1896.

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New Melbourne Art Fair Regard (advertisement)

Vernissage: Be the First to Experience the New Melbourne Art Fair

The celebrated opening night of the Fair, Vernissage, is the first chance for art lovers to view works by some of the newest and most exciting contemporary artists from Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia on Wednesday 1 August, 5.00pm tp 8.00pm. Ticket includes drink on arrival and live performance.

Limited Tickets | $75 ($80 on door)

Image: Hiromi Tango, Lizard Tail (Dawn) 2018. Commissioned by MLC Life Insurance and Melbourne Art Foundation. Artist represented by Sullivan+Strumpf (Sydney, Singapore)

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Men In White : The Chart

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