Impossible Gaze
dal 24/6/2002 al 26/7/2002
Segnalato da
24/6/2002
Impossible Gaze
UTS Gallery, Sydney
A photographic exhibition by Jo-Anne Duggan explores the visual culture of Florentine museums. Jo-Anne Duggans exhibition creates an intense visual experience. Her work conjures the sensorial act of viewing. Seizing on fragments of objects and images layered with wall and ceiling decoration, this exhibition shifts the viewers focus to the spaces in-between the historic artworks.
A photographic exhibition by Jo-Anne Duggan
explores the visual culture of Florentine museums
Jo-Anne Duggans exhibition, Impossible Gaze, creates an intense visual
experience. Her work conjures the sensorial act of viewing. Seizing on fragments
of objects and images layered with wall and ceiling decoration, this exhibition
shifts the viewers focus to the spaces in-between the historic artworks. Here
the peripheral becomes the centre-piece.
Duggans immense, sumptuously coloured photographs draw on historic Italian
visual culture, museums, viewing, the Renaissance and photography itself.
Her
images mirror the gaze of the viewer in the opulent environment of Florentine
museums, and are photographed in the galleries of Palazzo Pitti, Museo Nazionale
del Bargello and the Galleria degli Uffizi. These grand architectural spaces,
having endured four centuries of reconstructions, renovations and redecorations,
are presently inhabited as public museums. Their rooms, now animated in a very
different way from the past, are crowded with contemporary visitors clutching
guidebooks, city maps and museum catalogues.
Duggans art practice has been profoundly influenced by the Italian Renaissance
for the past decade, while her most recent works, exhibited in both Australia and
Italy, are centred on the museums that house works from this period. The
photographs in this exhibition reproduce an impossible gaze. It is
impossible
not only because of the ever-flowing tide of museum visitors obstructing the
viewers field of vision, but also by virtue of the extended time-exposures that
are required to render the detail of these photographs.
Jo-Anne Duggan and UTS Gallery gratefully acknowledge the support of the
Italian
Institute of Culture and Photo Technica, as well as the National Association for
the Visual Arts with assistance from the NSW Government Ministry for the
Arts,
and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at UTS. Also many thanks to
Primo Estate Wines, Kodak Professional and Studio Arts Centre International,
Florence.
Tues - Fri 12-6pm
UTS Gallery
University of Technology, Sydney
702 Harris St, Ultimo NSW