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9/4/2002

Groves and Small

Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney

Helga Groves

Gitte Weise Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Increments and Shadows.
This latest series of abstract works by Helga Groves continues her interest in modulation and rhythm, both formal processes associated with her earlier paintings and objects.
The larger scale works in this exhibition continue to be informed by Groves's apparent interest in painting the effects of light. These are not only suggested through a translucency of colour and shadowing; a recurring theme in her work, but are further evidenced by a predominantly white painting palette.
The painting continues to feature fields of finely placed brush stokes over subtly shaded areas of canvas. What has become a familiar presence in her recent painting is the repetition of the squared yet individual brushstroke. This optical interplay, when forming a pattern, appears to float across the plane of the canvas creating shifts between underlying and surface colours, whose inflections invoke a veritable geometric otherworld.
In contrast to her previous works, where she has directly responded to specific locations and environments through consecutive residencies (since 1995 in Vietnam, 1998 in France, and more recently 2001 Bundanon), this new series endeavors to evoke fictional places as purely painted spaces.

In the picture: Times of night and day. 1994.
oil paint, medium, graphite on linen.
8 parts, 56.0x 56.0cm each.

Opening Wednesday 10 April 2000 6PM - 8PM *please join us afterwards at the Paddington Bowling Club*

Exhibition 10 April - 4 May 2002

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ROOM 35

SAM SMALL
Room Temperature

Room Temperature is an exploration into the comfort zone of the domestic interior. Through the construction of cardboard models that have been artificially lit and photographed, these large scale colour images become curiously convincing representations of a not-so modern, but well-remembered home. By using familiar textures, such as floral wallpaper, a plush patterned carpet and a warm, homely glow, the corrugated cardboard box is transformed into a peculiarly habitable space.

But what dominates these vacated rooms is an overwhelming sense of nostalgia. They remind us of a home that, in the past, was able to satisfy our emotional needs - security, stability, and privacy - as well as provide us with a practical shelter from the world outside. Perhaps the redundancy of such sentiment is most clearly represented in the materials of the model interiors themselves. Like the packing boxes that carry our possessions from one house to the next, these imaginary spaces have the potential to be destroyed and discarded in an instant. Once again the photograph is employed in both the documentation and creation of our collective memory.

Opening Wednesday 10th April 6 - 8pm *please join us afterwards at the Paddington Bowling Club*

To be opened by Richard Grayson Artistic Director Biennale of Sydney 2002

Exhibiton 10 April - 4 May 2002

For further information please contact
Gitte Weise Gallery 56 Sutherland Street Paddington NSW 2021 Australia
Ph/Fax +61 2 9360 2659

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