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10/7/2002

Three exhibitions

Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP, Fitzroy

GLOSS

Curated by Itaru Hirano, Larissa Hjorth & Eri Otomo
Gallery 1 & 2

Candy Factory, Martine Corompt, Natasha Johns-Messenger, Larissa Hjorth, Akira Mori, Saki Satom, Masato Takasaka, Yasuko Toyoshima.

Gloss is an Australia-Japan Exhibition and Magazine Project featuring an ongoing series of multi-site exhibitions and limited edition magazines. Presenting a cross-cultural, collaborative take, Gloss begins with the notion of magazine culture as a rubbery bracket encompassing a huge range of issues from local vernaculars and global flows to changing destinations and travels inbetween. Rather than using out-dated modes for rethinking and conceptualizing art practice in contemporary culture, Gloss attempts to utilise the ubiquitous and ambiguous umbrella of magazine culture in order to generate discussion, debate and a take-away glossy mag.

Magazine culture is mobile culture. Their glossy pages full of hybridised advertisements and articles purport global destinations. As you surf through the two dimensional terrain, you travel to spaces and places, fusing fashion and fad, reality and fantasy, trivial and sublime. As well as end products, the Gloss exhibitions and magazines seek to generate a series of ongoing local and international collaborations. In this way, the project aims to broaden the boundaries of cultural exchange and to actively involve local audiences through related small-press/fanzine initiatives and satellite events.

Presented by the Centre for Contemporary Photography with support from Arts Victoria, Australia Council, Asialink and the Australia-Japan Foundation through its Australia Japan Art Exhibitions Initiative, Pola Art Foundation, and Nomura Cultural Foundation.

Opening. Thursday July 11, 6-8pm

Gallery hours. Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm

Satellite exhibition: Sutton Gallery, Melbourne July-August, 2002
July 16 - August 3 [Opening Saturday 13 July, 5-7pm]

Image: a work by Yasuko Toyoshima

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KRATER CRATER
Paul Knight
Project Space

Krater crater is comprised of two large-scale colour photographs depicting sites of intense human action. Isolated and flattened by the camera lens, these are sites that have been tailored to function as an 'exit point' for the interior forces of being human. Continuing his interest in spaces that show both the exterior traces of human behaviour and offer the potential for psychological escape, Knight presents us with a perspective not necessarily or solely spatial, but also emotional. Casting an analytical gaze over spaces contrived for the purpose of providing a release from stress - such as a squash court ravaged by the repetitious action of slamming and swiping - the sites themselves become functioning valves for psychological tension. Through his documentation, Knight explores the unconscious of spatial experience.

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BEATER
Sean Kerr
e-Media

"dot n, 1. a small round mark, a point... dot v. (dotted, dotting) 1. to mark with a dot.... to scatter here and there, dot them about (slang) to hit, dotted him one...to be minutely accurate and explicit about details. on the dot..."
- excerpt from Oxford Dictionary, 1971

Sean Kerr's Beater is where prog-rock meets minimalism. A non-representational flashing with little or no meaning. Dots just keep on repeating in time with simple beats. Beater is part 7 from Sean Kerr's new minimalist series, 'dot', especially created for the web. It is work that critiques art making and art politics. It is also an investigation into traditional methods of minimalist abstraction (painting), contemporary technologies, popular culture and humour.

Curated by Daniel Palmer.

Centre for Contemporary Photography
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Fitzroy Vic 3065
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