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Media Release - Uncanny Nature - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) Uncanny Nature
| Young independent artists will show alongside established practitioners such as Paul Sietsema (USA), Christine Borland (UK), Michael Landy (UK), Neil Emmerson, Robert MacPherson, Hany Armanious and Tony Clark in this predominantly sculptural exhibition.
Uncanny Nature will also feature four new works from local artists Noël Skrzypczak, Alex Pittendrigh, Hany Armanious and Tony Clark.
“For generations, nature and the landscape have been extolled in their unfettered state, whilst equally, they have been subverted, mutated and transformed. Uncanny Nature presents the work of artists depicting the natural world beyond the topographical or geographical,” said exhibition curator Rebecca Coates.
Highlights include Richard Giblett’s curious and monumental sculptural escalator, unusable and going nowhere, its underside home to plants and greenery. It will be seen alongside Nick Mangan’s Untitled (Nest), an aluminium ladder encrusted with pendulous wooden growths, termite-ridden and decaying, and Paul Sietsema’s Untitled (Beautiful Place), a dreamlike super 8 film of the natural world and constructed reality.
The exhibition will also feature small mountainous peak sculptures by Anne Ooms, a quirky waterfall sculpture by James Ireland, and one of the early Frog Poem works by Robert MacPherson, the unofficial ‘grandfather’ of conceptual art in Australia.
“The exhibition also seeks to capture the psychological landscape and the many ways artists explore human nature’s subconscious terrain through their work. From Hany Armanious’ ‘Bubble Jet earth work’ - a machine that writes a form of musical hieroglyphics in bubbles and worm castings - to Noël Skrzypczak’s oozing lava-like flows of plasticated paint dripping and flowing their way across the gallery wall. Each artist in their own way explores the shifting states of reality and the natural world.”
Uncanny Nature – 8 August – 24 September.
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 111 Sturt Street, Southbank.
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 10am–5pm. Weekends 11am-6pm. Mondays by appointment.
Tel: 03 9697 9999.
Admission: Free.
www.accaonline.org.au
For further media information: Katrina Hall on 03 9697 9999, mobile 0421 153 046 or email khall@accaonline.org.au
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