Heide Museum of Modern Art - photo by John Gollings
Words by Tammy Walters
Melbourne has been branded the arts capital of Australia, and for good reason.
While a trip to the Louvre Museum in Paris or the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York may be off the cards for a little while, Melbournians don’t need to catch a flight to catch culture.
Melbourne has been branded the arts capital of Australia, and for good reason; just look at the rich display of art painting our city corridors. Art and culture are embedded in our city’s identity and we are home to some of Australia’s best boutique contemporary gallery spaces.
Nick Selentisch: &
Nick Selenitsch ‘8’ (detail), 2020. Pigment pen on paper, 83 x 63cm (framed). Courtesy: the artist and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
Nick Selenitsch’s art practice promotes the artistic and social importance of play in the formation of understanding. Through a variety of media – installation, drawing, sculpture, and public artworks – his works create an elemental language out of familiar forms where the impulse to achieve the goal of singular understanding is both continuously acknowledged and endlessly eschewed. He has achieved this by incorporating the aesthetics and motifs of games, sports and civic markings to make artworks that flirt ambiguously with the rules and procedures of their source.
Eugene Carchesio: From Here to Here
March 13 - April 17
Courtesy: the artist and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
From Here to Here features a selection of recent works on paper and wall-based sculptures by
Eugene Carchesio. In this show, the artist continues his exploration into the methods in which pattern, colour, positive and negative space influence presentations and concepts of abstraction. Once again, Carchesio encourages the viewer to look closely at his small-scaled artworks and discover that which encapsulates the characteristics of something much larger.
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Raafat Ishak: Eye Looking at Large Glass Broken Two
March 13 - April 17
Raafat Ishak’s exhibition
Eye Looking at Large Glass Broken Two includes a series of vividly coloured paintings on MDF, a sculptural staircase and a framed line painting on cardboard. This exhibition forms one element of a three-part series, with the subsequent component to take place in the 1967 modernist building at Heide Museum of Modern Art in 2022.
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