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Dale Hickey: Life in a Box
Our guest curator, Paul Zika, has brought his own challenging rigor to the exhibition. It grows out of a long-term research project documenting individual survey exhibitions of Australian artists after 1970. It is a project concerned with one of the fundamental paradoxes of recent Australian art; the relative invisibility of an artist’s oeuvre in an age in which the art market and information technology alike are booming. Zika and his research partners are redressing two blind spots in Australian art. First, many survey exhibitions have been staged but the record of them is patchy and difficult to access. Second, the parameters of the survey exhibition are rarely critically assessed. In this exhibition, Zika seeks to enhance the record of exhibition with a substantial catalogue and variety of distinctive interpretative essays. And, in presenting a thematic and highly reflective selection of works, he steps away from the usual foundations of biography and style.
History
ISBN
978-0-734039-04-0Department/School
School of Creative Arts and MediaPublisher
Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of MelbourneExtent
36 artworks, 12 February to 26 April 2008Event Venue
Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of MelbourneDate of Event (Start Date)
2008-01-01Rights statement
Text © 2008, Chris McAuliffe, Paul Zika, John R Neeson, Domenico de Clario, the estate of John Stringer, Stephen Haley and the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne. Images © 2008, Dale Hickey, except where otherwise notedRepository Status
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