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4/4/2014

Rosemary Laing

Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

In this latest work from Rosemary Laing – set in the Casuarina and Eucalyptus woodlands of Bundanon and papered with newspaper - a forest is carpeted with the muted grey of newspapers blending with nature’s primary forces. As the graphic features of the newsprint begin to be obliterate, like melted strudel pastry, the textures create chillingly beautiful effects. It carries quite a lot of pictorial power.
It looks like Miles Davis sounds.

The accumulating catalogue of Laing’s work keeps evolving, while remaining in touch with its origins and reanimating its prior forms. Every new presentation of work is a running commentary on her previous corpus of work. It explores themes touched upon in – Natural Disasters (1988), groundspeed with its 1950s carpets out in the wild (2001) and weather with its cyclone of paper trimmings (2006) – while constantly replenishing what had remained surplus to that work. And this compost of earlier fragments, that are dismembered and scattered and gathered again, underlies her material transformation.

George Alexander, 2013

Rosemary Laing is a Sydney-based artist. A major monograph with text by Abigail Solomon-Godeau was published by Prestel in 2012. Over the past decades, she has presented work in numerous museums worldwide. In 2005, a large exhibition of Laing's work was mounted at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; which travelled to Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark in 2006. She has participated in several international biennials, including the Biennale of Sydney (2008), Venice Biennale (2007), Busan Biennale (2004), and Istanbul Biennial (1995).

Image: The Paper, Monday C Type photograph 110 x 214 cm

Opening: Saturday 5th April, 3 - 5 pm

Tolarno Galleries
Level 4, 104 Exhibition Street - Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia
Gallery opening hours:
Tuesday - Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 1pm - 5pm

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