The Sleep of Reason 2012
The Sleep of Reason @ Art Gallery of South Australia
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The Sleep of Reason 2012
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The Sleep of Reason
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Tue, 17 Jan 2012 to Sun, 1 Apr 2012
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Art Gallery of South Australia
North Terrace
Adelaide,
SA,
5000
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Art Gallery of South Australia: +61 8 8207 7000
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The Sleep of Reason: The prints of Louise Bourgeois, Benjamin Armstrong and Brent Harris 25 NOVEMBER 2011 - 1 APRIL 2012 Gallery 8 Free Admission This display showcases the prints of Louise Bourgeois, Benjamin Armstrong and Brent Harris. At the time of her death last year, Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was recognized as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Bourgeois was born in France and lived and worked in New York for more than six decades. Her art was widely influential, including on Australian artists. The Sleep of Reason presents Bourgeois’s work with that of two contemporary Australian artists, Brent Harris and Benjamin Armstrong. All three are united in their interest in unconscious processes and in a desire to give form to, and therefore analyse, disturbing aspects of experience. Bourgeois created highly personal art that drew on childhood memories of her fraught relationship with her mother, her father and his lover (her governess). Influenced by French Surrealism, she developed an idiosyncratic style that addressed complex psychological states. Her series What is the shape of this problem? emerged from drawings and diary notes she made while suffering from insomnia, while La Réparation depicts elements of personal significance. Harris depicts episodes from his childhood in his series Grotesquerie 1999-2008, giving form to memories of sexual development and associated trauma. Harris’s concern with familial relationships – in particular the porous boundaries between children and adults – is explored in his prints. His fascination with the unstable nature of physical and emotional intimacy results in compositions that are rigorously controlled yet full of leaking, shifting and encroaching shapes. Armstrong’s art provokes the imagination to make associations. Although non-representational, his imagery is suggestive of bodily forms. His drooping and circular forms allude to the body’s orifices (eye, mouth, anus, vagina), while the repetitive zig-zag shapes express the energy of creation. In The shape of things to come, Armstrong weaves these elements together using a distinctive line reminiscent of Renaissance engraving techniques and Bourgeois’s tentative, scratchy drawings.
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