The 2004 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships
Artist: LOUISA BUFARDECI
Export Distribution (detail) 2002
digital print
60 X 110 cm
© the artist
Export Distribution 2002
digital print
60 X 110 cm
© the artist
Louisa Bufardeci's works seem initially, for a moment, like large paintings. But they are not. Bufardeci makes mostly digital prints (in effect maps and charts) that utilize various systems and investigate the colour-coding of visual information, statistical information. The results are not subjectively derived, and not through usual symbolic convention. They have a bracing and arbitrary linkage-to social analysis, political economy.
These are not emotional and culturally embedded understandings of colour and form that underlie these 'pictures'. This recognition is something of a shock and a challenge-a move away from colour as emotional index, and it relates more to a culture of technology, and analysis.
Initially we try to see them as conventional abstraction: the mistake and readjustment are part of our education, a heuristic device. The heavy lode of information gives these pictures' coding an intensely powerful effect. Witness Export Distribution or These are a few things I think you should know - full of diagrammatic urgency, partway between electric circuitry, the viral and patterns of force and movement.
These are wall-sized digital prints and, meanwhile, Bufardeci plans to move to animation with interactive components.
Ken Bolton
from his Samstag catalogue essay;
New Brew: Export Quality Six-Pack
| Louisa Bufardeci Born 1969, Melbourne, Victoria |
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| 2004 | Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA |
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| 1998 | Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne | |
| 1991 | Bachelor of Education (Visual Art), University of Melbourne, Melbourne |