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Description: Galerie Düsseldorf 30th Anniversary Year Celebratory Exhibition No.7 déjà vu Significant works by : Su Baker, Galliano Fardin, Frank Morris Tom Múller, Jánis Nedéla, Mike Singe Alex Spremberg. Kevin Robertson Howard Taylor, David Watt Exhibition dates : 20 August - 17 September 2006 3 Galliano Fardin Wetlands: Moonlight 2000/01 Oil on Canvas 40 x 185 cm $ 4,000 Originally exhibited in the exhibition: Phenomena New Painting in Australia : 1 Art Gallery of New South Wales 23 June - 12 August 2001 and Ian Potter Museum of Art The University of Melbourne 24 November 2001 - 20 January 2001 Curator Michael Wardell The Art Gallery of New South Wales Sponsored by ANDERSON • New Painting in Australia 1 Phenomena This is the first of three exhibitions exploring the state of painting at the start of the new millennium.Painting is thriving and exists in many different guises. New Painting in Australia I concentrates on one of many tendencies that are relevant to our time: the use of the vocabulary of abstraction to explore the link between painting and the world around us. No longer interested in 'art for art's sake', these artists are investigating -- with pragmatic objectivity -- the inherently subjective realm of phenomena. • My paintings are derived from the landscape but more from the experience of being there than from the desire to represent it literally. Ideas and recollections find their way into the canvasses as marks and colours which reflect a subjective perception rather than an objective analysis of nature. Time is an important element in my paintings as the reference to the landscape is a remembered one and therefore the landscape is introspective as much as it is about "real" space. Also the process of painting is what gives the structure and discipline to the work. Usually I don't do preliminary sketches for my paintings. They derive from an ongoing stream of ideas. Ideas for my paintings flow intuitively from one work to the next in a series of themes not in a planned, premeditated way but as a series of improvisations. The physical experience of the landscape, allowing time to filter the impressions and memories, enables me to paint what I think is essential, in the confines of my studio. The inspiration for the work comes from Coastal South West WA and the Pilbara Region where I have spent much of my time in recent years. • Galliano Fardin 2004 • The paintings of Galliano Fardin are a consequence of memories and impressions of the Western Australian landscape. Fardin's primary concern is to find a physical experience and understanding of the land, rather than the traditional need to charaderise landscape in a literal sense. Fardin translates his memories and notions of the land onto canvas through marks, textures and colour, which echo a subjective observation rather than an analytical study of the environment. The inspiration for Fardin's paintings comes from coastal south-west Western Australia and the Pilbara Region where the artist has spent much of his time in recent years. • (Murdoch University 30th Anniversary Card 2005) |
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