The Molecular History of Everything*
(*well not Everything)
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The Molecular History of Everything* (*well not Everything) continues ACCA's commitment to bringing the best and latest of what's currently being made on the world's visual arts stage to Melbourne.
A selection of new work some of the world's most promising conceptual artists including Rosa Barba, (Germany), Richard Fauguet (France), Danielle van Vree (Holland), Kan Xuan (China), Marc Bauer (Switzerland), (New Zealand), Daniel Von Sturmer (New Zealand), Dave Muller (America), Nora Martirosyan (France/Armenia) and Claire Harvey (UK) will be shown alongside the work of Australian artists Julie Davies and Alex Rizkalla, Charles Anderson, Nick Mangan, Bianca Hester, Alex Pittendrigh, Stuart Ringholt, Louise Flaherty, Bianca Looney and Lucas Chirnside.
“The Molecular History of Everything* (*well not Everything) is kind of like a mini Biennale, perhaps a Manifesta. I want to show the latest ideas emerging out of arts practice around the world and locally,” says Juliana Engberg, Artistic Director of ACCA. ,br>
“Much of the art in this exhibition is experimental in nature…. ideas are still evolving. Many of the artists are attempting to make sense of the world in their own ways. They are all tipping the world around to provoke new reactions to things that sometimes seem settled in society. There is a sense of the poetic, the fragmentary and the fleeting. We see a reinvigorated sense of the beauty of things, despite the current global spectrum of uncertainty and unrest,” she says.
“Highlights include cinematic and kinetic poetry, the trajectories of balls in flight, the wonderful ping of love, and the melancholy of matter. Music is mapped as if like a geology and the world is turned into spinning tops. Life is captured in a thousand post-it notes, and a love affair is catalogued in the debris of the domestic. Bodies move in and out of each other, and the fecundity of life's seeds are harvested. Architecture becomes sculpture and sculpture becomes architecture, and objects become rearranged curios of physics.”
The Molecular History of Everything * (*well not Everything)
Dec 17 2004 - Feb 20 2005.
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art,
111 Sturt Street,
Southbank.
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11am-6pm.
Mondays by appointment 10am-5pm.
ACCA is open on public holidays with the exception of Christmas Day and Good Friday.
Admission:Free.
For further media information: Katrina Hall on 03 9697 9999, mobile 0421 153 046 or email khall@accaonline.org.au
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