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Exhibition: ‘Thomas Demand’ at the National Gallery of Victoria...
Exhibition dates: 30th November 2012 - 17th March 2013 . You saw it here first on Art Blart ! Beautiful installation shots of the new Thomas Demand exhibition at NGVI. Jeff Wall installation...
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Exhibition: ‘Jeff Wall Photographs’ at The Ian Potter Centre: National...
Exhibition dates: 30th November 2012 - 17th March 2013 . Installation shots of the new Jeff Wall exhibition at NGV Australia. Review to follow in due course. Many thankx to Jemma Altmeier and all the...
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Exhibition: ‘WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath’ at...
Exhibition dates: 11th November 2012 – 3rd February 2013 . This is the biggest posting on one exhibition that I have ever undertaken on Art Blart! As befits the gravity of the subject matter this...
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Exhibition: ‘WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath’ at...
Exhibition dates: 11th November 2012 – 3rd February 2013 . This is the biggest posting on one exhibition that I have ever undertaken on Art Blart! As befits the gravity of the subject matter this...
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Exhibition: ‘The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One...
Exhibition dates: 30th September 2012 – 31st December 2012 . Alfred Stieglitz / Georgia O’Keeffe Paul Strand / Rebecca Strand Emmet Gowin / Edith Gowin Harry Callahan / Eleanor and Barbara Callahan...
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Melbourne’s magnificent eleven 2012
. Here’s my pick of the eleven best artists/exhibitions which featured on the Art Blart blog in 2012. Enjoy! Marcus . 1/ Review: The work of Robyn Hosking, AT_SALON at Anita Traverso Gallery, Richmond...
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Text: ‘Orality, (n)framing and enactment in the art of Jacqui Stockdale’ in...
. “What does it mean, to rediscover an unknown continent through the medium of photography in the 21st century? The seven artists that appear in this “Unfound in Australia” issue are well versed in the...
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Exhibition: ‘William Klein + Daido Moriyama’ at the Tate Modern, London
Exhibition dates: 10th October 2012 – 20th January 2013 . Many thankx to the Tate Modern for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version...
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Exhibition: ‘Wolfgang Tillmans’ at Moderna Museet Stockholm
Exhibition dates: 6th October 2012 – 20th January 2013 . In this bumper posting, a big call: in my opinion, the greatest photography based image maker in the world today. Tillmans challenges the way we...
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Exhibition: ‘WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath’ at...
Exhibition dates: 11th November 2012 – 3rd February 2013 . “War is, above all, grief.” . Dmitri Baltermants . “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent” . Salvor Hardin in Isaac Asimov’s...
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Exhibition: ‘Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour’ at Somerset House, London
Exhibition dates: 8th November 2012 – 27th January 2013 . They may be channelling the master, but none does it like Cartier-Bresson. There is a spareness and spatial intensity to Cartier-Bresson’s work...
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Exhibition: ‘nude men: from 1800 to the present day’ at the Leopold Museum,...
Exhibition dates: 19th October 2012 – extended until 4th March 2013 . . Martin Ferdinand Quadal Nude Life Class at the Vienna Art Academy in the St.-Anna-Gebäude 1787 © Paintings Gallery of the Academy...
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Exhibition: ‘WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath’ at...
Exhibition dates: 11th November 2012 – 3rd February 2013 . Part 4 of the biggest posting on one exhibition that I have ever undertaken on Art Blart! As befits the gravity of the subject matter this...
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Exhibition: ‘Flatlands: photography and everyday space’ at the Art Gallery of...
Exhibition dates: 13th September 2012 – 3rd February 2013 . This posting contains one of my favourite early works by Fiona Hall, Leura, New South Wales (1974, below) which is redolent of all the themes...
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Review: ‘Terraria’ by Darron Davies at Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 16th January – 9th February 2013 . This is the first “magical” exhibition of photography that I have seen in Melbourne this year. Comprising just seven moderately large Archival...
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Exhibition: ‘Hiroshi Sugimoto. Revolution’ at Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Exhibition dates: 25th October 2012 – 10th February 10 2013 . “Water and air. So very commonplace are these substances, they hardly attract attention – and yet they vouchsafe our very existence. The...
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Review: ‘Vestige II’ Melissa Powell and ‘Darkness by Day’ Shannon McGrath at...
Exhibition dates: 5th February – 23rd February 2013 . ves·tige /ˈvestij/ Noun 1. A trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists. 2. The smallest amount (used to emphasize the absence...
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Review: ‘Confounding: Contemporary Photography’ at NGV International, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 5th October 2012 – 3rd March 2013 . At its birth in the 19th century, photography was seen as the ultimate tool for the representation and classification of the visual world.1...
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Exhibition: ‘Carine Thevenau: Return To Huldra’s Wood’ at Edmund Pearce...
Exhibition dates: 13th February – 9th March 2013 . Sometimes I just want to surround myself with objects that are beautiful, that give me pleasure in the act of looking. I just want to look at a...
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Review: ‘Jeff Wall Photographs’ at The Ian Potter Centre: NGVA, National...
Exhibition dates: 30th November 2012 - 17th March 2013 . “My work is a reconstruction and reconstruction is a philosophical activity. If I can create a drama that has philosophical meaning, that’s...
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