Gitte Weise Gallery
Sydney
56 Sutherland Street - Paddington
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Snee and Sedan Ace project
dal 19/11/2002 al 20/12/2002
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19/11/2002

Snee and Sedan Ace project

Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney

Christopher Snee's recent paintings and the Sedan Ace project of Nuha Saad and Kay Wood.


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CHRISTOPHER SNEE
recent paintings

Opening Wednesday 20 November 6 - 8 pm

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Christopher Snee's recent paintings at Gitte Weise Gallery do not simply coerce us to read. They demand it. From his multiple concrete alphabets, book and wall works throughout the 1990's, to the Australia series of paintings in 2000/01 he makes us look carefully to where he finds inspiration, not least in the abstract attributes of text.

Something as familiar as words starting with the letter M or as expeditious as the word crux are spelt out across several works. Snee places importance in the origin of his chosen words as well as the associations we make with his painted variants. In his hands they are composed or invented, inverted or reversed, repeated and concealed, or simply isolated.
For Snee painting is foremost a lesson in history, a shared history of influences compiled as much from the sign writer's lexicon as purloined from modernism's wake.
Exhibition 20 November - 20 December 2002

In the image: 'rufus plus'

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SEDAN ACE (+)
NUHA SAAD and KAY WOOD

Opening Wednesday 20 November 6 - 8 pm

This exhibition continues the Sedan Ace project of Nuha Saad and Kay Wood. The work reflects upon the domestic realm and the instability of relationships that reside within.

Saad's works in this exhibition act as a dispatch to memory. Memories of an inner city childhood lived in Victorian terraces; amongst the decorative yet oppressive ornamentation of ceiling roses, cornices, skirting board and sculpted masonry trim. As a result these 'Chamber' sculptures can be interpreted as manifestations of conflicting desires - counting and order oscillate with ornamentation and decoration with neither (system) subjugating the other.

In her consideration of the domestic house as a theatrical site, Wood's re-staging of domestic objects and forms are viewed as a metaphor for self-identity. Focusing on the desire for intactness and preservation, Wood chooses particular elements of her parent's home that, although once obscure or mundanely functional aspects of day to day life, become overblown with a relevance they never had previously. The further away in time from their actual use they go the more detail is lost and, as they threaten to disappear altogether (and take with them their memories) the more their form is invested in. The constructive effort that goes into maintaining the concreteness of the experience is played out in each set, which is yet grounded in slippage and the impossibility of achieving the goal. 'Song for Shirley' is a tribute to the 1970s.
Exhibition 20 November - 20 December 2002

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Gitte Weise Gallery
56 Sutherland Street
Paddington NSW 2021 Australia

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