Helga Groves
dal 3/7/2008 al 29/8/2008
Segnalato da
3/7/2008
Helga Groves
Gitte Weise Gallery, Berlin
Divining Water. Her paintings are electric, charged with a liquid energy. Her careful selection and application of tonal layers - fields of colour capped with a decisive geometrically patterned meniscus - stimulate the eye with registers of horizontally and vertically rippling colour and light.
Divining Water
The eternal being lives in what is liquid.
Juan Paulo
Huirimilla Oyarzo, Kula Troy, Part Four1
Helga Groves' paintings in Divining Water are
electric, charged with a liquid energy. Her
careful selection and application of tonal layers
- fields of colour capped with a decisive
geometrically patterned meniscus - stimulate the
eye with registers of horizontally and vertically
rippling colour and light. While convincing the
senses of their emissions into the atmosphere,
Groves' paintings also inventively evoke interior
perspectives. Indigo oceanic depths, surging
streams of fresh water, the silvery grays of
groundwater and washed sedimentary crystalline
rock potentially await within the their
illusionary realms.
Groves' curiosity for the natural world - an
intellectual and aesthetic inquisitiveness
stimulated and enlightened by her experiences of
different landscapes and physical environments -
informs a practice where creative and cerebral
research goes hand in hand. The range of Groves'
felt responses to the particulars of place and
the continual advance of her geographic,
historical and related knowledge provides a
conduit to her most current works.
Excerpt from Divining Water
Zara Stanhope
Deputy Director, Senior Curator
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
1. From a poem by Chilean indigenous Mapuche
poet, Juan Paulo Huirimilla Oyarzo, 'Kuela Troy',
Part Four in Espejo de Tierra/ Earth Mirror,
University of Sydney and Chilean Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, Melbourne, 2008, p. 36.
Helga Groves, born 1961 in Ayr, Queensland
Australia, lives and works in Melbourne
Australia. She studied at the Sydney College of
Arts and has been represented by Gitte Weise
Gallery Sydney since 1992. Her works can be seen
in all Australian State Galleries and the
National Gallery of Australia. Divining Water is
Groves' first solo exhibition at Gitte Weise
Gallery Berlin.
opening Friday 4th July 7 pm
Gitte Weise Gallery
Tucholskystrasse 47 - Berlin
Tuesday to Saturday 11 - 6
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