Truth Universally Acknowledged
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Truth Universally Acknowledged is an ethereal exhibition exploring the possibilities of fiction and fantasy, personae and fact. Internationally renowned artists Tacita Dean (U.K), Dorothy Cross (Ireland), Janice Kerbel (Canada) and Rosemarie Trockel (Germany) together with Australian artists Kate Daw, Catherine Bell and Laresa Kosloff explore the world of narrative through a variety of media including film, photogravure etching, sculpture, painting and installation.
Catherine Bell's Rain Cheques, 2003, are a series of 1970s American Bank Cheques used by her family whilst on secondment to the US Army. Complete with backgrounds of picture-postcard landscapes, in place of a monetary amount are cryptic inscriptions about everyday dysfunctional family life. These are exhibited alongside Dorothy Cross' hauntingly suggestive video, Tea Cup, 1996. Cross has most recently had a major survey exhibition at Dublin's internationally recognised Irish Museum of Modern Art.
The exhibition will also feature a new commission and text paintings exploring Proustian notions of memory and allusion by well-known Melbourne artist Kate Daw. For the first time in Australia, Janice Kerbell's controversial Bank Job, 1999 will be shown. The work, which stunned London's banking community, is a film-noir style stakeout of one of London's prominent banks, reminiscent in its audacity and humor of Michael Caine's The Italian Job.
Films by Rosemary Trockel and Melbourne's Laresa Kosloff will also be exhibited, and, in a major coup, renowned U.K artist Tacita Dean, who has recently exhibited new work in the Italian pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale, will exhibit a new series of five photogravure etchings alongside her epic, map-like alabaster drawings, Kronos.
Truth explores a particular sensibility, says ACCA Curator Rebecca Coates. 'There's a questioning, a suggestiveness, a lingering refrain - as narrative is written, rewritten and allowed to remain ambiguous.'
Truth Universally Acknowledged, August 5 - September 25th
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