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22/5/2008

Two exhibitions

Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

Main Gallery
We Are Hidden And We Can See You, We Are Hidden And You Can See Us

Front Gallery
Aedi Gunawan - The Super Light


We Are Hidden And We Can See You, We Are Hidden And You Can See Us

Gwenneth Boelens and Helen Grogan, Eric Demetriou, Tess McKenzie, Nick Selenitsch, Jacob Weiss, Nicki Wynnychuk
Curated by Shae Nagorcka

NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL AND GERTRUDE CONTEMPORARY ART SPACES’EMERGING CURATORS PROGRAMME

As the successful applicant for Next Wave and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces’ 2007 Emerging Curators Program, Shae Nagorcka has created a dynamic group exhibition that opens at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces on 23 May 2008. The exhibition entitled We Are Hidden And We Can See You, We Are Hidden And You Can See Us unravels the complex and usually concealed processes of artistic creation.

Have you ever felt distanced by an artwork? Have you ever been utterly confused by what you were looking at? Have you ever wondered what the artist was even thinking? The participants in We Are Hidden And We Can See You, We Are Hidden And You Can See Us all have, and they hope to change that.

We Are Hidden And We Can See You, We Are Hidden And You Can See Us takes a look at the meanings and processes behind artworks, examining the relationship between the artwork and ourselves. Operating like a three-dimensional, walk-through documentary, We Are Hidden incorporates video diaries for all of the participating artists, an evolving internet blog that records conversations between the artists and the curator, as well as documentation of the individual artworks’ journeys into being. The finished works will also find their place in the exhibition, covering a range of media including sculptural installation, painting, video, text and more.

We Are Hidden will be an organic, process-driven exhibition that will bring the events and interactions that go on behind an artwork out into the open. As Curator Shae Nagorcka explains; “By making the process inseparable from the artwork, we can open up a whole area of knowledge and discussion. “ Arguments and converstaions, successes and failures; all the messy stuff that is usually kept out of the gallery will be brought back in, for better or worse.

Curated by Shae Nagorcka, We Are Hidden And We Can See You, We Are Hidden And You Can See Us will feature the work (and reflections) of seven young and emerging artists: Gwenneth Boelens (from The Netherlands) & Helen Grogan, Eric Demetriou, Tess McKenzie, Nick Selenitsch, Jacob Weiss and Nicki Wynnychuk.

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Front Gallery
Aedi Gunawan - The Super Light

The Super Light is an ongoing sculptural/installation project that draws on the incongruent act of throwing things up in the air and having them stay there.

Created by emerging Melbourne-based scupltural installtion artist Ardi Gunawan, the project reuses found materials, drawing on their prior connotations as a way of building meaning and structure. The form of the work brings together some of Architecture’s loftiest ambitions combining them with the most primitive of structures - a shambolic child’s cubby construction.

Gunawan props his materials up against each other, wedging them and securing them with a series of slender sticks. The vulnerability of this support-system becomes an integral part of the work - a tentative attempt at defying the fall. To this end, the work becomes a speculation about how lightness can be made apparent through the distribution of heavy things.

In short, The Super Light is a temporary assemblage which makes the viewer reconsider notions of weight and form. As Ardi explains “The structure attempts to release its own inherent tension, the weight of its own balance, through additive processes; stacking, piling, balancing, counter-balancing and leverage. It presents not the illusion of balance but actual balance. “

Ardi Gunawan has shown his work in a number of exhibitions including; in praise of blandness, Monash Faculty Gallery, (2008); Floats like a brick doesn’t…, Bus, Melbourne, (2007); Substructure, Conical, Melbourne (2007); everything, again, FirstDraft, Sydney (2007); an edge meets an edge, Spectrum Project Space, Western Australia, (2007). Ardi is also contributing to several projects as part of the Next Wave Festival in May 2008. These include 2020? at North Melbourne’s Meat Market, and Objects in Space. Ardi Gunawan (b. Indonesia) completed a Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting (Honours) at Monash University in 2006 and is currently undertaking a Master of Fine Art at Monash University.

Image: Ardi Gunawan

Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
200 Gertrude Street
Fitzroy Victoria 3065 Australia
Opening Hours:
Tue - Fri 11am-5.30pm, Sat 1-5.30pm

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