An
assemblage of contemporary Australian artworks engaged with sound, music and
voice
The TarraWarra Museum of Art will present
the third iteration of its biennial from 5 August to 9 December 2012. Dedicated to
showcasing contemporary and innovative Australian art, the TarraWarra Biennial
will be curated by TWMA director Victoria Lynn.
This year, the biennial will include the work of 20
artists and one collaborative group: Robyn Backen, Lauren Brincat, Eugene
Carchesio, The Donkey's Tail, Marco Fusinato, Nathan Gray, David Haines &
Joyce Hinterding (collaboration), Ross Manning, Dylan Martorell, Victor
Meertens, Angelica Mesiti, Yukultji Napangati,
James Newitt, Tom Nicholson with Andrew Byrne (collaboration), John Nixon, Sandra Selig,
Christian Thompson, Ray James Tjangala and Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula.
The exhibition presents an assemblage of works engaged
with sound, music and voice and will include drawings, musical scores,
assemblages made from musical instruments, paintings and video. These works
express the sonic through visual means. Many of the works are created through
the use of improvisation and assemblage.
The
TarraWarra Biennial was inaugurated in 2006 as a signature exhibition to
identify new developments in contemporary art practice. Guest curated by
Victoria Lynn and entitled Parallel Lives
the first exhibition featured 17 Australian artists exploring the resurgence of
artists working with painting to represent the experience of the everyday. In
2008 guest curator Charlotte Day mounted the second TarraWarra Biennial
entitled Lost and Found: An Archeology of the Present. Bringing
together 21 Australian and New
Zealand artists the exhibition articulated
the engagement of contemporary art with historical forms. In 2010 the TarraWarra Contemporary continued the
museum’s commitment to showing contemporary art, through the eyes of a diverse
group of arts industry professionals and under the new directorship of Victoria
Lynn the biennial, a significant survey of contemporary art at TWMA, will be revived in 2012.
Victoria Lynn says “In this exhibition, while some
artists respond to an avant garde tradition of experimental sound, others are
interested in the ways in which music is a cultural expression. For many of the
artists sound or song is a means of communication.”
Many of the artists perform live with their art works.
There will be a program of talks and performances on the opening weekend of the
exhibition (4-5 August).
TarraWarra Museum of Art
311 Healesville-Yarra Glen Road
Healesville Vic 3777
tel (03) 5957 3100
www.twma.com.au (forwarded from Eliza Ordinans)
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