Marseille 2009,
Still from Digital Video.
Courtesy the artist and
Sarah Scout Gallery Melbourne
Kit Wise
Rio 3 2009,
Still from Digital Video.
Courtesy the artist and
Sarah Scout Gallery Melbourne
Kit Wise creates large-scale digital landscapes where the ideal city meets with nature. “Utopia in arcadia,” he calls it.
The artist, a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art in the Faculty of Art and Design at Monash University, borrows from western medieval narrative painting, the European tradition of the picturesque and science fiction cinema to make picture perfect, high-tech cities that sit against beautiful landscapes – usually with an uncanny twist.
For this series, which opens at ACCA @ Mirka on Friday 4th December, Wise looks towards the waterside paradise that is St Kilda as well as the world’s finest resort towns and leisure destinations, creating several screen-based works that explore the idea of the ‘ideal city’– in a disquieting but perfect digital reality.
ACCA and Mirka at Tolarno Hotel have joined forces to bring contemporary art to the adventurous patrons of Melbourne's brightest new restaurant. In a series of four annual exhibitions which are set to change with the seasons ACCA will give four young Australian artists a unique chance to show their work in this exciting new satellite venue.
The Tolarno Hotel has always had a tradition of food and art. In the 1960s Georges Mora, restaurateur, gallery owner and curator, and his wife Mirka made the bistro and gallery one of Melbourne’s best loved cultural and culinary icons.
Visitors welcome and encouraged.
Admission is free.
Open from 10am to midnight daily
Mirka at Tolarno Hotel
42 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda
