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Opening reception: Friday, July 9th, 2010
This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, and the WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay.
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very much along the lines of our initial Sydney browsing beauty show (1997) which was all about beauty and distance! So exciting: check out:
Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age
May 12 – August 1, 2010 SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Artistic Director: David Elliott
“[...] the idea of distance expresses the condition of art itself. Art is of life, runs parallel to life and is sometimes about life. But, for art to be art (a medium of numinous, sometimes symbolic power), it must maintain a distance from life. Without distance, art has no authority and is no longer special. As art depends on the beauty of distance, beauty in art – a resolution of energy, thought and feeling in aesthetic form – depends on distance as well. Beauty itself can, at times, be terrible as well as alluring. Art can reflect the sweetest or strongest of emotions, it can also express the most traumatic events but, unlike life, nobody gets hurt.”
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Deutsches Hygienemuseum Dresden
March 27, 2010-January 2, 2011
curated by Doris Müller-Toovey: a critical survey of the current discourse on beauty
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Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching
Klompching Gallery, New York
Call for Entries due May 18, 2010
“It is through the ordinary that we are able to recognize the extraordinary or strange. Break down the conventions of beauty and look beyond the traditional to the unusual. Strange Beauty is found in the unfamiliar, evoking wonder and awe. Beauty is found in the unexpected.”
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the light writings on the wall are handwritten statements collected before and during the show, running as “subtext to the plot” – see individual show pages such as the Chatham one to read them!
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by artists Sophia Isajiw and Lisa Kaftori
starting on page 14 of the WiseBrain Bulletin (published by Rick Hanson, Ph.D. and Rick Mendius, M.D. of WiseBrain.org and The Wellspring Institute For Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom), they look at such questions as: what is it that attracts us so to beauty; can one apprehend beauty within ugliness?
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Check out Lucy Hartley’s essay and Lorenzo Buj’s essay on the exhibition!
Also, if you know German, you will enjoy Ferenc Jádi’s essay for browsing beauty.
Andrea (center) at the opening
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at the William Street Café. From left to right: Nick Papador (Noiseborder Ensemble), Lucy Hartley (spoke at opening), Chris McNamara, Brent Lee, Trevor Pittman (all Noiseborder Ensemble), Andrea Sunder-Plassmann and Sigi Torinus
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