'UnpackAssembleAddDiscardCreate'_2018
@ Articulate Project Space, Sydney.
497 Parramatta Road, Leichhardt. Sydney NSW 2140
UnpackAssembleAddDiscardCreate
by Adrian Hall, Sibylle Hofter and William Seeto.
Opening Reception: Friday 2 November, 6-8pm by Adrian Hall, Sibylle Hofter and William Seeto.
Artists’ Talk: Saturday 10 November, 4:30pm
Closing: Saturday 10 November, 6-7pm
Closing: Saturday 10 November, 6-7pm
Open Hours: 11am–5pm, Friday–Sunday, 2–11 November
2018
UnpackAssembleAddDiscardCreate by Adrian Hall, Sibylle
Hofter and William Seeto.
The exhibition examines individual artworks created in diverse
locations with works that engage with environments. The concept of location
initiates a way of working individually and between artists with established
practices and the difficulties encountered are made more prominent by duration
and distance.
The
exhibition is by three artists who deal with location as they merge and
intervene through metaphoric gaps, virtualities not easily categorised as one
or the other. By extending experience of localised environments, situations are
created whereby sites are adapted and changed to challenge perceptual and
personal awareness. In analysing diverse areas and
environments, new ways of working are discovered.
By
examining differences in work perceived knowledge and experience is extended
and heightened, changed and challenged. The bringing together of three
established practitioners is significant in that it showcases innovative and
exciting new works by artists in the geographical locations of New Zealand,
Germany and Australia.
Adrian
Hall
Adrian
Hall is an artist with five decades of living and working in the United States, New
Zealand, United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. His
practice involved and moved from painting to formal structures, photo/ video
installations and sound works, and all combinations. Currently, photographic
works with textual addenda at gallery scale rival his live practice; objects
and structures and drawings too. His work practice includes colleagues and
friends in improvised visual/ sonic collaboration. He relishes
conjugations of mixed gender, race, and generations. He continues to challenge
preconceptions of the world; and eliminates that which seems
irrelevant, as he also examines the sanctity of art as it is presumed to
be.
Adrian Hall, ‘yes
YOU WILL be’_2016. photo: w.seeto
Sibylle
Hofter
Sibylle Hofter has over two decades of multi-media art practice
that includes extended research into extra-artistic fields, curatorial and
participative approaches. She is driven by a desire to create multi-faceted
collaborative photo-portrayals of countries she visits. Her interest is within
regional contexts and beyond, which operates outside the schemes of
photographic genres. Her work involves the ongoing Agentur Schwimmer
photography project, which promotes a simple approach in a complex world by
asking what is behind facades? What makes our daily reality work? What are our
possibilities to perceive and to show? Her approach is one of unrestrained
enthusiasm to get to know more about the inner workings of society and the
questions arising out of representing a multiplicity of background and other
aspects of art in developing visual languages that are beyond our daily visual
experience.
Sibylle
Hofter, ‘Portrait of the Continent in 4 Weeks. June – July’ & ‘219x132x219cm’_2012 photo: w.seeto
William Seeto
William Seeto is a site-specific constructed installation and
photomedia artist with a practice of more than three decades with experience in
creating perceptual installations and photomedia works. His practice examines
sensory and visual perception and interrogates different ways artworks heighten
or displace experience and referential codes in photo-imagery. His constructed
installations examine perceptual qualities in built environments and his
ephemeral artworks are based on everyday materials that seek to extend the
dialogue by blurring the lines in order to expand contextual meaning, and in so
doing continue connections generated by reworking ideas formed by
deconstruction and reconstruction that is inspired by Arte Povera.
William Seeto, ‘RmG 3’_2018. photo: w.seetoCOPYRIGHT: Artwork reproduction rights remain with the artist. This work is copyright. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process, nor may any other exclusive right be exercised, without the permission of William Seeto.