WHEN : 22nd Oct – 16th Nov
WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery
Just as every object brings a narrative, so too Italian marble comes loaded with the gravitas of Western art history, the supremacy of the master craftsman and the authority of the monument. It is testament to Alex Seton’s bravery as an artist that he meets the canon head on, recruiting realism and materiality to probe our contemporary age with wry humour and technical virtuosity.
As a painter and scholar, Victoria Reichelt has investigated the shifts from analogue to digital and concrete to virtual with floodlit precision. Within her lifetime, the very idea of books falling from the top shelf as actual and symbolic receptacles of knowledge was unimaginable, not so much a heresy but rather as a matter of hardware. However, within the past decade, the 21st century notion of the codex book’s redundancy has lent an oblique social commentary to Reichelt’s exquisitely crafted, hyperrealist paintings.
Image : Victoria Reichelt, Glide (2012) oil on linen, 35 x 35cm
Text : Jan Murphy (2013)
