bLOGOS/HA HA: February 2022

28 February 2022

Vale Ken Whisson (1927-2022)

Paintings by Ken Whisson at the Watters Gallery in Riley St.

Flag for David Ireland (4 August 1981) Fairfax Media Archives

Ken Whisson, Landscape with Real People, 1996 + 2001

FIAPCE

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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27 February 2022

remembering Mikhail Gorbachev

"Everything has got to change: the authority, the federation, the economy... and the position of the individual."

Mikhail Gorbachev, 25 Aug 1991

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Theatre of the Actors of Regard

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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26 February 2022

cogiTAR ergo sum

found meme over 1950s Man Ray photo of Marcel Duchamp

We can't confirm that Duchamp ever said that about ideas, but it did set us to thinking...

FIAPCE Foto Studio

Theatre of the Analogies of Regard

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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25 February 2022

Ukraine

Come all without, come all within
You’ll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn

- Bob Dylan, Quinn the Eskimo (1968)

FIAPCE FOTO

Theatre of the Antechambers of Regard

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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24 February 2022

more mental fabric | scatter brain

Noel Counihan, Laughing Christ, 1970

Theatre of the Actors of Regard

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23 February 2022

mental fabric

TARist doing the Hilda af Klint

Theatre of the Actors of Regard

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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22 February 2022

Iron Maiden | Iron Matrix | Iron Mandala | TARborealismus

FIAPCE photo Brisbane 2007 Theatre of Arboreal Restraint

Theatre of Actors in the Round

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21 February 2022

change of circum stance

She's changing her name
From Kitty to Karen
She's trading her MG for a white Chrysler LeBaron
I want a girl with a short skirt and a long jacket

- Cake, Short Skirt/Long Jacket

Theatre Around Regard

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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20 February 2022

name of change

It was

The New Chalet

now it is

The Amalfi

Theatre of the Accomodations of Regard

It was

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now it is

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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17 February 2022

Sunbury 72

Ye Gods of Rock, it's another 50th anniversary!

Barefoot in the Grass : 50 Year Anniversary of the Sunbury Music Festival is at Hume Global Learning Centre, Sunbury, until March 27.

Tonight, there will be a panel discussion featuring festival lighting director and author Peter Evans, plus roadies, musicians and fans, and performances by Mike Rudd of Spectrum and Brenden Mason of Madder Lake.

Sunbury 72

Your correspondent was there too, with a notebook a nib pen and a bottle of India Ink.

Theatre of the Anniversaries of Rock

In 1971, Mary Macqueen was one of our RMIT Architecture faculty tutors. At Crossley Gallery, I had seen her rapid impression pencil drawings of zoo animals. Hence...

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Theatre of the Actors of Regard

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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16 February 2022

Lot 3099 : a Columbian Emerald, Onyx and Diamond Corner Brooch in the Manner of SINCLAIR+GALLERY ] Polke×Gallery McCahon×Gallery Beuys×Gallery Tillers×Gallery ( ... at CAM

Leonard Joel Lot 3099

SINCLAIR+GALLERY : the essay

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15 February 2022

Do The AlternaTAR | Image-Label TAR dance

"It was in my mind to say that a portrait should be the image of one spirit received in the mirror of another"
- PORTRAIT IN A MIRROR, Charles Morgan (1933)

Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Archibald Prize, Archie 100 explores the history of Australia’s most prestigious portrait award. The exhibition presents a diverse selection of Archibald portraits from the last century—the triumphant and the thwarted—and honours the artists who have made the prize the most sought-after accolade in Australian art today.

Archie 100 is an Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition.
Geelong Gallery is the exclusive Victorian venue for Archie 100.

@ Geelong Gallery until 20 February 2022

Theatre of the Actors of Regard

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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14 February 2022

circumscripTAR dance

Archie 100 @ Geelong Gallery until 20 February 2022

Theatre of the Actors of Regard

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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13 February 2022

TAR inter-being at inter-section approaching Geelong Gallery

Theatre of the Actors of Regard

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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12 February 2022

CV

In 1977, works were framed and ready for their imminent showing upstairs at Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne. Coming after the breakthrough series (1974-1976) shown at that gallery the previous year, this exhibition was to include a further development, another series (1976-1977)

framed and suspended by hanging wires, black and white oil paintings on canvas, images of self and other and light apportioned in equal thirds.

from that series

Two weeks before the opening, the directors wrote to inform that the show was cancelled so that the English artist John Walker, scheduled to show his paintings downstairs, could also show some works on paper upstairs. Artist Quits Gallery.

for the scheduled exhibition

Planned for impact in 1977 Melbourne, these paintings were instead exhibited in Brisbane two years later at Ray Hughes Gallery. Scheduled for exhibition in 1977, some of these works (the painted light bulbs, the Art Cult photos) have still not been shown or seen.

invitation for the 1979 Brisbane exhibition

Soon for auction in Melbourne, Lot 59 was one of those works. It is shown below as re-presented by the auction house : guillotined from the artist's frame and requisite hanging wires, materially mis-described, and priced in estimate below the artist's current commercial pricing (which includes a 50% gallery commission).

NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK COLLECTION :

Highlights of Australian Art
MELBOURNE AUCTION : Deutscher & Hackett
22 February 2022

LOT 59
PETER TYNDALL
born 1951
A PERSON LOOKS AT A WORK OF ART,
1977
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
90.0 x 44.5 cm
signed verso: PETER TYNDALL
inscribed with title and date verso:
A PERSON LOOKS AT A WORK OF ART.
1977.
ESTIMATE: $5,000 – $8,000

Theatre of the Auctions of Regard

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11 February 2022

Under the influence

Following on from the previous couple of posts, another assisted readymade sequence, directed to our regard by Mitchel Cumming, a former student of Matthys Gerber.