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Parallel Collisions at the Adelaide Festival 2012

Feb 2, ’12 11:33 AM

Adelaide Festival 2 – 18 March 2012
Adelaide Festival, Visual Arts Program 2 March – 29 April 2012

Top – STEPHEN BRAM
ground floor south gallery, 2008, detail
Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne University
Photo courtesy Ross Bird
Courtesy of the Artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Sydney

Bottom – TIM SILVER
detail, Untitled (bust), 2011
Pine Timbermate woodfiller
Courtesy of the Artist and Breenspace, Sydney

Parallel Collisions
2012 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Curators Natasha Bullock and Alexie Glass-Kantor

An experiential proposition inspired by art, cinema and literature, the 2012 Adelaide Biennial explores the ways in which ideas emerge, converge and re-form through time. From a floating island of 2000 cut-glass objects to an explosive light installation that clocks in real time human births, deaths and dying stars, this Biennial considers the temporality of the present as it parallels and collides with the past.

Across four physical platforms, Parallel Collisions presents 21 commissioned works by some of Australia’s leading artists, 21 original texts, a designer, an architect, two curators and an institution, forming a connective tissue that attempts to understand our subjective experience of time.

The accompanying publication is a 344 page offering where discursive, contradictory, creative and lateral ideas converge. Contributing authors include Christos Tsiolkas, Adrian Martin and Justin Clemens.

See more here

Top – ROSEMARY LAING
Groundspeed (Rose Petal) #17, 2001, detail
C Type photography
110 x 185 cm
Courtesy of the Artist and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

Bottom – JOHN GLOVER
A View of the artist’s house and garden, in Mills Plains,
Van Diemen’s Land, 1835, detail
oil on canvas
76.4 x 114.4 cm
Morgan Thomas Bequest Fund 1951
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Top – SHAUN GLADWELL
Pataphysical Man, 2005, detail
video still
Performer: Daniel Esteve Pomares
Videographer: Gotaro Uematsu
Courtesy of the Artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Sydney

Bottom – MARCO FUSINATO
Mass Black Implosion (Free music No 1, Percy Grainger), 2009, detail
ink on archival facsimile of score
23 x 32 cm
Courtesy of the Artist and Private collection

See what ‘s on at the Adelaide Festival 2012

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Adelaide Festival 2 – 18 March 2012

Feb 2, ’12 11:32 AM

Adelaide Festival 2 – 18 March 2012
Adelaide Festival, Visual Arts Program 2 March – 29 April 2012

“Heaven and Hell. It was with those two words that curator Victoria Lynn and I began our discussions surrounding the 2012 Adelaide Festival visual arts program: the polarities of heaven and hell as the twin energies pulling at, and guiding, our imaginations. As Victoria puts it, it is in the “force field” between these poles that art exists. For me, art, often created in seclusion, is by nature experiential, indeed incomplete in itself until experienced; it requires the reaction of the observer for its latency to be activated, and then it in turn becomes informed by our thoughts, dreams, our personal histories to become part of its narrative arc. “Heaven” and “hell” might be the way we imagine our best and worst selves, the outer extremes of our potential for good and evil; they mark conceptually the boundaries of the possible.”
- Paul Grabowsky, Artistic Director, 2012 Adelaide Festival

See the Adelaide Festival – Visual Arts Program for full details.

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DG Student Design Competition 2012

Jan 31, ’12 12:32 PM

Design a cover for DG magazine with the theme:
Images of the Decade

The theme of the competition is ‘Images of the Decade’. The decade you choose can be in the past or the future, but not the present. The intention is to encourage entrants to look beyond their own experience, creating a snapshot of a past or future time.

Download the Call for Entries here
Download the InDesign/Photoshop templates here

The DG Student Design Competition is open to Tertiary and Secondary School students in Australia. Entries are judged in the following divisions: Tertiary Division, Secondary Division.

The prizes will be announced here and via newsletters. You can sign up for newsletters here for notification.

THE BRIEF
Design a cover for an imaginary issue of DG magazine with the theme: ‘Images of the Decade’. Trimmed page size: 297mm x 210mm, portrait (A4).

The imaginary issue will have a series of articles on images that are representative of a particular decade. That period may be in the past or future. Not the present.

The cover should therefore include one or more images that typify a particular period. The subject allows for a variety of editorial angles; historical or futuristic.

All entries must use the templates supplied by DGi Media (Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop). Which can be downloaded from here.

The graphics may be illustrative or photographic. In the case of photographs, some third party photographs may be used (as magazines and newspapers do), but in such cases it must be clearly marked on the entry form. If third party images are used, marks will be awarded for an individual’s creative and original use of such images.

It is important that the design is the entrant’s own work. Images may be sourced from third parties but they must not be used “as found”. Entrants should use photo-imaging techniques to create unique cover images.

The results will be published online here at the DG Design Network. www.dgdesignnetwork.com.au/dgdn

Closing date for entries – 30 April 2012
Competition is open to Australian Tertiary and Secondary School students only
There is no entry fee for the competition

Please see the Call for Entries for Terms & Conditions

See the 2011 DG Student Design Competition Gallery here

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Studio Tipi

Jan 20, ’12 3:38 PM

Contsructing the Impossible, “The Magical World of Escher”, Special collaboration postcards for pigeon post & art gallery of alberta

Studio Tipi are two artists: Judi and Keith. They have a little kitten named Ringo and do some fantastic illustration work for: Monocle magazine; Canadian based paper goods brand Pigeon Post; New Zealand based online store General Cucumber; and Art Gallery of Alberta.

Well Stocked Library, Monocle

DG – Your work has quite a strong style, how did you develop this?
STUDIO TIPI – For us inspirations are like the unnameable meat parts and scraps that all go into the sausage machine, what you have in the end often is a surprisingly delightful product that has hints of the ingredients but never quite resembles the appearance of the things that went in.

Our ideas are often inspired by folk and naive arts, things from time passed, nature and animals.

DG – From your collection of work, it appears you’re mostly involved in producing work for Editorial, and Holiday Cards. What is your favourite area to create designs/illustrations for?
STUDIO TIPI – Anything that allows fun and engaging ideas really, though there are projects that we would love to get our hands on like books and packagings and such… Most important is, we hope to bring happiness through our work.

DG – What is coming up for 2012?
STUDIO TIPI – At the moment we are having loads of fun working on children’s materials for the good folks at Anorak (the happy mag for kids!), as well as more stationery and paper products for Lagom Design in UK.

“Flying Machine” For New Zealand based online store General Cucumber’s 2009 Christmas campaign

Carousel, Monocle

See more of their work here

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YES! Maya Hayuk & Kyle Ranson at No Vacancy

Jan 20, ’12 2:54 PM

YES!
An exhibition of new works and installations by Maya Hayuk (Brooklyn, NY) and Kyle Ranson (San Fran, CA)
at No Vacancy, Melbourne
as part of the Sugar Mountain Festival

See more of Maya Hayuk‘s work here, and Kyle Ranson‘s here

No Vacancy
34 – 40 Jane Bell Lane, Melbourne, 3000
Opening Night: Friday 20th January: 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Exhibition Running: 21st January – 29th January 2011

Trading Hours:
Monday: Gallery Closed
Tuesday – Friday: 11:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday: 11:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday: 12:00am – 5:00pm

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French – Oath of Armageddon

Jan 20, ’12 2:32 PM

Carhartt presents a solo Exhibition By

French
Oath of Armageddon

Opening Friday 10th February – 6-9pm
10th February – 25th February 2012
at Backwoods Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne

The artist by the name of French takes delight in reduction. His favour is for that which is less, best exemplied by his fondness of darkness – the absence of light.

Reduction is constant in his art with an almost entirely rejecting colour and working unfalteringly on a at surface. By withholding the innumerable options we have available, French opts for focus and intensity in one place. Darkness is constant in his artworks, and that relates to both the density of the line and the subject matter it depicts.
French is a forefather for the new blood line in a tradition of subcultural aesthetics.

With an upbringing of obsessive attention to the grotesque of metal record sleeves and the immoral graphics on skateboardx it is worth noting that the artist grew up in a garrison town. Familiar with military machismo, termination machinery and the displays of death, it is no small wonder that French’s morbid tendencies and medically precise depictions of human entrails recur frequently. In recent years he has added to his artillery of imagery (skulls, corpses, executioners, decaying beasts and Black Metal musicians) the regularity of medieval knights, wizards and occult rituals.

Compasses and sea-going vessels, hand-forged tools and armour bring us back to a Europe of old, dark ages and discovery, the dawn of science and religions that stood in its way. Wickedness reigns in the absence of illumination. Science prescribes that black is the absorption of all light frequencies. Similarly French’s work consumes much.

Excrutiating amounts of detail and time are applied to a single idea or an image to arrive at the intricate depiction he has conjured. A dark intensity and singularity dene the work of French with his priority of the solitary line and, contrastingly, it’s myriad of possibilities.

– Joseph Allen Shea, Sydney, 2012

Backwoods Gallery
25 Easey Street, Collingwood
Victoria 3066
GALLERY HOURS. 3pm – 6pm THURS – FRI. 12PM – 6PM SAT – SUN
www.backwoodsgallery.com

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Leonardo Live

Jan 18, ’12 2:31 PM

Strictly limited season – Only in cinemas Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 February
For participating cinemas and tickets visit LeonardoLiveHD.com

Experience the U.K. National Gallery’s sold-out, once-in-a-lifetime exhibition ‘Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan’ captured live in high definition only at your local cinema in limited screenings on Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 February, 2012.

In a first for movie audiences, the big-screen presentation of ‘Leonardo Live’ gives art lovers the world over the opportunity to share in the excitement of viewing the unprecedented and historic exhibition, in the comfort of their local cinema. The exhibition brings together the largest ever number of da Vinci’s paintings, including a new, never-before-seen Leonardo painting.

‘Leonardo Live’ is presented by art historian Tim Marlow and Mariella Frostrup, who will explore the exhibition and feature detailed examinations of the paintings and interviews with special guests and experts.

See the paintings revealed in astonishing detail through close-up footage on the big screen.

More info at Sharmill Films and here

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Arietty

Jan 18, ’12 1:20 PM

Studio Ghibli presents
ARIETTY
A film by Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Based on Mary Norton’s ‘The Borrowers’

Discover a secret world within our own

This is a story of a family of little people. Beneath the floorboards of a sprawling mansion set in a magical, overgrown garden in the suburbs of Tokyo, tiny 14-year-old Arrietty lives with her equally tiny parents. The house is occupied by two old ladies, who are absolutely unaware of the existence of their miniature tenants. Arrietty and her family live by borrowing. Everything they have, they borrow or make from the things they have borrowed. Essentials like gas, water and food. Tables, chairs, cooking utensils. And treats – a sugar cube here, a scrap of material there. But only a little each time, so the ladies do not notice. A 12-year-old boy, Sho, moves into the mansion while he waits for urgent medical treatment in the city. Arrietty’s parents have always warned her: “Never let humans see you.” Once seen, little people always have to move on. But the adventurous Arrietty doesn’t listen, and Sho discovers her. The two begin to confide in each other and, before long, a friendship begins to blossom…

In cinemas 12 January 2012
See the trailer here

More info at Madman

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WASHINGTON by Benjamin Portas

Jan 18, ’12 12:11 PM

To celebrate her involvement in the Sydney Festival, via Festival First Night and ‘Insomnia’ live at the Sydney Opera House, Megan Washington’s long time artistic collaborator Benjamin Portas will exhibit his artwork in Sydney for the first time. The exhibit will open on Thursday 19th January, for one exclusive week, at MART Gallery in Surry Hills.

Portas has worked closely with Washington on the artistic direction for her two major releases, the Platinum-selling ‘I Believe You Liar’ and it’s companion piece ‘Insomnia’ as well as the many EP’s, tour posters, digital and graphic elements that have provided the visual backdrop to Washington’s much-loved music and video performances.

The exhibit will feature Portas’ artwork from all of Washington’s various releases, alongside rare international prints and the recent ‘Insomnia’ work which has been influential in inspiring the set-design for the upcoming Sydney Opera House show.

For more info head to www.martgallery.com.au

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Lee Bul – From Me, Belongs To You Only

Jan 13, ’12 1:44 PM

Lee Bul
Amaryllis
1999
Hand-cut polyurethane panels on aluminum armature, enamel coating
210 x 120 x 180 cm
Collection: Arario Collection, Seoul
Courtesy: Studio Lee Bul
Photo: Rhee Jae-yong

Lee Bul – From Me, Belongs To Only You
4 February – 27 May, 2012
Mori Art Museum 53F Ropponngi Hills Mori Tower

Since the 1990s, Lee Bul has built an international career as one of the leading contemporary artists from Asia. Her oeuvre is dominated by sculptures that demonstrate a mastery of materials and techniques, including her celebrated Cyborgs and Anagrams series, hybrid machine-and-organic forms referencing critical theory as well as dystopian cinematic worlds; karaoke “pods” that evoke space capsules for eternal sleep; and glittering, spectral gures and cityscapes that seem to be falling into ruin. For over twenty years, it could be said that Lee, whose practice has spanned her home country’s transition from military dictatorship to democracy, has been on a quest for an elusive something . the ultimate physical form perhaps, or the ideal society. While showcasing her major works in the four sections “Ephemeral Presence,” “Beyond Human,” “Utopia and Dreamscape” and “From Me, Belongs to You Only,” in the “Studio” section this exhibition will present the drawings and models that also form the font of her ideas. The subtitle “From Me, Belongs to You Only” is also a message from Lee: her attempt to find the “something” for which she is constantly searching in a personal relationship with each individual viewer. Come and experience that message for yourself in the spaces at “Lee Bul: From Me, Belongs to You Only.”
- Mori Art Museum

Lee Bul
Cravings
1989
Outdoor performance, Jangheung, Korea
Courtesy: Studio Lee Bul

Lee Bul
After Bruno Taut (Beware the sweetness of things)
2007
Crystal, glass and acrylic beads on stainless steel armature, aluminum and copper mesh, PVC, steel and aluminum chains
258 x 200 x 250 cm
Installation view: “On Every New Shadow” Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Collection: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg and Paris
Courtesy: the artist and Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Photo: Patrick Gries

See more at Mori Art Museum

Organiser: Mori Art Museum
In Association with: OBAYASHI CORPORATION; TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION; Soo Seok Trading Co.,LTD.; Ilshin Foundation; SANKEN SETSUBI KOGYO CO.,LTD.; SHINRYO CORPORATION
Special Support: RYOKO CO., LTD.
Cooperation: Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte, BOMBAY SAPPHIRE

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Page One: Inside the New York Times

Jan 13, ’12 11:57 AM

On the other side of the media fence sits PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES, a timely story of the struggle to maintain the relevance and integrity of newspaper journalism within a world that is increasingly pulling away from the printed word.

PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES gains unprecedented access to The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the media desk as the paper’s writers, editors and publishers grapple with existential challenges from players like WikiLeaks, new platforms in Twitter and tablet computers, and readers’ expectations that online news sources should be free.

PAGE ONE skillfully paints a nuanced portrait of journalists continuing to produce extraordinary work—under increasingly difficult circumstances. At the heart of the film is the burning question on the minds of everyone who cares about a rigorous press: what will happen if the fast-moving future of media leaves behind the fact-based, original reporting that helps to define our society?

See the trailer at Madman here

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Sugar Mountain 2012 – Visual Artists

Dec 21, ’11 2:34 PM

Main Event: Saturday 14 January 2012 – The Forum Theatre, Melbourne Sugar Mountain Satellite Events – Thursday 12 January to Saturday 21 January 2012

VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM

Curated by artist and Creative Director Pete Keen, the Sugar Mountain visual arts program will feature a select group of forward-thinking, contemporary artists from near and abroad.

Complementing the Sugar Mountain Festival, held at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne on Saturday 14 January 2012, will also be eight inspiring satellite events – spanning film screenings, exhibitions and art installations.

In 2012, the visual arts program taps into the aesthetic epicentre of cross-disciplinary mediums, with the vision to weave visual art, new media, dance, film, and music, finding the common thread that ties these creative forms. Sugar Mountain is looking at the union and juxtaposition of organic and mechanical process in artistic methodology. The selected local and international artists will exhibit a positive integration of old and modern methods of art-making.

Get your tickets here
www.sugarmountainfestival.com

Kyle Ranson

Maya Hayuk

Ben Barretto

Vincent Moon

Matsuri Yamana

Lucy Benson

Kit Webster

Keith Deverell

Dylan Martorell

Chaco Kato

SUGAR MOUNTAIN 2012

Featuring
DEERHOOF :: TUNE-YARDS :: THEE OH SEES :: SHABAZZ PALACES :: JULIANNA BARWICK :: PRINCE RAMA :: SUN ARAW :: WORLD’S END PRESS :: PETS WITH PETS :: DJ YAMANTAKA EYE (BOREDOMS) :: THIS THING :: LOST ANIMAL :: FOX & SUI :: THE HARPOONS :: STRAIGHT ARROWS :: ABSOLUTE BOYS

Visual Artists
MAYA HAYUK :: KYLE RANSON :: VINCENT MOON :: BEN BARRETTO :: DYLAN MARTORELL :: KIT WEBSTER
+ more

Get your tickets here
www.sugarmountainfestival.com

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Tom Blachford – Aotearoa

Dec 12, ’11 3:44 PM

Tom Blachford – Aotearoa‐ A Photographic Exhibition
L’Unico Gallery, 323 Bay Street Port Melbourne
Opening night 6pm, 15th December 2011
Open 11am ‐5pm daily from 16th – 23rd December 2011

Tom Blachford’s exhibition Aotearoa is comprised of carefully selected photos taken across three trips to New Zealand, where he explored the rich and surreal landscapes. The environment is represented in an abstract way to allow the viewer to define their own interpretation of these pristine areas.

Blachford first discovered his passion for photography whilst studying business at RMIT. He then deferred his degree to pursue photography whole heartedly. He has since worked on major campaigns for MTV New York and United Colours of Benetton, traveled with one of the world’s greatest street artists and been published in Magazines around the world.

www.tomblachford.com

http://www.behance.net/tomblachford

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Sugar Mountain 2012

Dec 5, ’11 9:48 AM

14 January
Melbourne

Visual Artists
MAYA HAYUK :: KYLE RANSON :: VINCENT MOON :: BEN BARRETTO :: DYLAN MARTORELL :: KIT WEBSTER
+ more

Get your tickets here
www.sugarmountainfestival.com

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OZ Graphix 8 – Available Now

Nov 14, ’11 4:03 PM

OZ Graphix 8, our showcase of creativity from top Australian studios is packed with a wide range of graphics: graphic design, branding, packaging, photography, web design, and illustration.

The Studios: 10FOLD – Beci Orpin – Bonsai Media – Brandhaus – Brandism – Bright Yellow – Childseye Studio – Christina Bollenbach – Copirite – Design Identity – Design Otaku – Factory One – Gold Coast Design Studio – HIVE Creative – Ident – Katalyst Interactive – Kindred Studio – Latitude Group – Marcela Restrepo – Merlin Media – Ömse – Orange Lane Studios – Paper Monkey Design – Percept Brand Design – Peter Clarke Photography – Poppen Designs – Qualia Creative – Roller Studio – Seamer Design – Seesaw – Sofia Calado Photography – Sprout Creative – Squad Ink – Steve Park – Studio Binocular – Studio Equator – Sydney Branding Services – tactic – That Mob – The Bowery Group – The Overall Picture – Toko – Volume 2a – We Buy Your Kids – Wide Media

Pick up a copy at the DG Online Store

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