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1998 Exhibitions and public programs
27 February - 4 April 1998
Lustmord: Jenny Holzer A 1998 Telstra Adelaide Festival, visual arts program exhibition Lustmord which has no precise English equivalent but which, as Holzer says, translates roughly from the German as 'rapeslaying' - is a series of texts in response the violence being done to women in Bosnia. The project relates to issues of violence perpetrated against all women and the psychology and physiology of grieving, misery and fury. Holzer has con figured this installation specifically for the Adelaide Festival and the University of South Australia's new city-based Art Museum.
Jenny Holzer is one of the leading artists of the 20th century. She has shown internationally during her 20 year career which has seen her participate in Documenta; the Venice Biennale; a major solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York as well as numerous other solo and group exhibitions.
4 September - 3 October 1998 Expanse: Aboriginalities, spatialities and the politics of ecstasy Expanse brings us the work of five prominent Australian contemporary artists, Jon Cattapan, Rosalie Gascoigne, Antony Hamilton, Kathleen Petyarre and Imants Tillers who are each exhibiting major new work for the first time and additionally includes a painting by John D. Moore, Sydney Harbour, 1936, which functions as a qualifying point of reference. Expanse takes as its leitmotif, as curator Ian North calls it, 'that our survival is grounded in nature'. He proposes that, in spite of their differences, the five artists' work if taken together signals a shift in Australian art, from the postmodernist 1980's to a less ideological, more reflective sense of place based not on essences but the understanding that Australians can forge a culture embracing urban, rural and outback Australian realities as well as participating, necessarily, in international exchanges. The work is chosen for its artistic power. But Ian North has also produced an extraordinary corollary to the exhibition in his accompanying essay, imaginatively and ambitiously mapping a fresh terrain of cultural and social space. In this, he suggests that seen and considered, the work in Expanse encourages the opportunity to explore issues of Aboriginalities, white and black; the literal and theoretical spaces conditioning Australian art and life today; and the 'forbidden'(unfashionable) areas of aesthetics and nature. A 32 page colour catalogue ($10 +$5 postage) has been published in conjunction with the exhibition. A special series of forums and lecturers in response to Expanse will be held in the Nexus Cabaret, Lion Arts Centre, cnr North Terrace and Morphett Street from 4:30 - 6pm.
Friday 11 September: Expanse: culturally diverse ways of being in Australia
Friday 18 September: Expanse: Aboriginalities and the future of Australian Art
Thursday 8 October: Expanse: Art in Post-Suharto Indonesia
16 October - 7 November 1998
Robert MacPherson: Murranji
A touring exhibition of selected works by Robert MacPherson from 1977 - 1997 at the
Art Museum and the Experimental Art Foundation, curated by Ingrid Periz.
19 November - 12 December 1998
South Australian School of Art Masters Exhibition
South Australian School of Art Master of Visual Arts recent graduates and graduating
candidates, Rosemary Aliukonis, Catherine Blakey, Gregory Donovan, Timothy John, Gishka
van Ree, and Jan Shone exhibit their recent work in an exhibition which encompasses a
broad range of media and conceptual approaches.
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