BRUCE SLATTER : WAY, SHAPE OR FORM - Galerie Düsseldorf - 5 August
- 2 September 2007
- Bruce
Slatter's recent work plays with ideas of protection, containment
and concealment.
WAY, SHAPE OR FORM uses combinations of objects that imply
potential actions and suggest narrative possibilities. Objects
are linked through a purpose built casing; encouraging the
viewer to imagine their utility, promise and failings
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West Australian Today
Friday 10 August 2007
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IN GOOD FORM
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At Galerie Dusseldorf Bruce Slatter's new show is equally
engaged in playing with signs and crossed signifiers.
Way, Shape or Form overlaps two great spectacles in art and
sport, finding aesthetic value in all those sporting goods
lying around the house. Interestingly balls, boards and even
buckets have been put in casings made as if to protect the
object from its use.
Rather then protection, Slatter's sports goods are more about
potential, in much the same way we might value sportsmen or
indeed dream about our own sporting prowess. Sometimes it's
better to imagine the game rather then actually play it.
In this way Slatter's work nicely crosses the boundaries of
utility and value but equally questions the hierarchy of purpose.
Tossing the ball in the hoop at the park is a long way from
the NBA but each level serves a purpose, from the enjoyment
of participation to the pleasure of watching something at
its finest.
Likewise, art manifests itself in a number of ways and equally
the enjoyment of making can be counter-weighed against seeing
art at its finest.
Slatter's discussion of this is well put, so is the possibility
of dreaming and our need to be surrounded, even at a domestic
level, by objects of
contemplation and competition.
There is another fine exhibition at Galerie Dusseldorf but
due to a conflict of interest, (the artist is my wife Sarah
Elson), I can't write about that one.
Shape or Form : Galerie Dusseldorf until September 2.
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