ACCA @ MIRKA
AT TOLARNO HOTEL
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Kit Wise
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Summertime
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Image: Kit Wise
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Marseille 2009,
Still from Digital Video.
Courtesy the artist and
Sarah Scout Gallery Melbourne
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Kit Wise will create the ultimate relaxation destination in a series of new works for ACCA @ MIRKA.
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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.
Kit Wise was born in Portsmouth and graduated from Oxford University and the Royal College of Art. He received the Wingate Rome Scholarship in Fine Art in 1999, studying at the British School at Rome, and moved permanently to Australia in 2002 where he has continued to practice as an artist, writer and curator. Recent solo exhibitions in Melbourne include Natural Disaster at Linden Centre for Contemporary Art (2008), Rhapsodia at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (2007), Superhappiness at CONICAL (2006) and Soujourner, Westspace (2005).
Kit Wise – Summertime, opens at ACCA @ Mirka on December 4, 2009.
ACCA @ MIRKA is a collaboration between the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Mirka at Tolarno Hotel, presented by Sanpellegrino. ACCA will curate four projects by emerging Australian artists each year, continuing the tradition of bringing great contemporary art to this unique and historic restaurant space.
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For further media information:
Katrina Hall - 0421 153 046, kathall@ozemail.com.au
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Mirka at Tolarno Hotel
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With the opening of Mirka at Tolarno Hotel Guy Grossi returns to the original kitchen in which he first started cooking the ‘sofrito’ with his father and Mirka Mora restores the joyous murals she painted in the main dinning room during the 60s. An amazing piece of Melbourne’s cultural and culinary history has come full circle launching an exciting new chapter in the life of a Melbourne icon.
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ACCA
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The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art is Melbourne’s leading contemporary art gallery presenting the most challenging, innovative and creative visual art of our time. ACCA brings the latest and most significant artwork by living artists from around the world to Melbourne audiences, and commissions new artworks by local and international artists.
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