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25/2/2010

Before & After Science

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

The flagship visual arts event of the Adelaide Festival of Arts, the 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia: Before & After Science assembles 22 of the nation’s most innovative and exciting contemporary artists and artist groups, to present a wondrous and unsettling vision of our world, where mystery and the unknowable wrestle with order and reason.

Inspired by the concepts of alchemy and transformation, independent Melbourne curators Sarah Tutton and Charlotte Day have selected cutting-edge new works which, through their use of media, theme or narrative, change the humble into the precious, the old into new, and the mundane into the magical.

“The works in Before & After Science all respond to the resurgence of mythology, spirituality and mysticism across political and social spectrums of this global society” says Charlotte Day. Explains Sarah Tutton, “Uncertainty has become the permanent condition of our time. The artists in this exhibition are deeply engaged with art historical precedents and contemporary issues associated with a turn away from reason...this time, think George W. Bush’s calls to arms against terrorism in a ‘search for monsters and ghosts’.”

Installation and sculpture using traditional and non-traditional materials feature strongly alongside collage, film and painting to create an extraordinary exhibition experience. Many works are being displayed for the first time in this exhibition. All have been created since the 2008 Adelaide Festival. This is the eleventh Adelaide Biennial since its inception in 1990.

The 2010 Adelaide Biennial artists are:
Hany Armanious (NSW), Benjamin Armstrong (VIC), John Barbour (SA), Matthew Bradley (SA), Mikala Dwyer (NSW), Simryn Gill (NSW), Diena Georgetti (Qld), Newall Harry (NSW), Nicholas Mangan (VIC), Silvana & Gabriella Mangano (VIC), Martumili Artists (Jakayu Biljabu, Yikartu Bumba, Nyanjilpayi (Nancy) Chapman, Mulyatingki Marney, Muntararr (Rosie) Williams, Mayiwalka (May) Chapman, Reena Rogers, Doreen Chapman, Donna Loxton, Beatrice Simpson, Ronelle Simpson, Linda James) (WA), James Morrison (NSW), Callum Morton (VIC), Doreen Reid Nakamarra (WA), Michelle Nikou (SA), David Noonan with the Victorian Tapestry Workshop (VIC), Stuart Ringholt (VIC), Sandra Selig with Leighton Craig (QLD), Christian Thompson (VIC), Louise Weaver (VIC), Justene Williams (NSW), Simon Yates (NSW).

The exhibition is accompanied by a substantial catalogue which takes the unprecedented approach of including not only critical essays, but also poetic, philosophical and fictional responses to the works in the exhibition by international curators, artists, writers and commentators.

The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, state and territory governments.

Image: Louise Weaver, Death adder 2008, hand crocheted lambs wool over cast aluminium with human hair, in two parts, 110 x 35 x 25 com; Private Collection, Sydney, image courtesy the artist and Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Photography: Mark Ashkenasy.

Media Contacts for images and interviews:
Miranda Starke Young T: 08 8207 7032 M: 0409 919 510 StarkeYoung.Miranda@artgallery.sa.gov.au
Heidi Chamberlain T: 08 8207 7554 chamberlain.heidi@artgallery.sa.gov.au

Art Gallery of South Australia
North Terrace, Adelaide's cultural boulevard, between the South Australian Museum and the University of Adelaide SA 5000
open to the public daily 10am to 5pm from Saturday
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