Exhibition Opening + Artist Talks | Composition and Shadows | Fragile Structures: The Architecture of Decay
Image | Fran Romano Labyrinthine 2021 | Photography by Andrew Sikorski - Art Atelier
Please join us for the opening of the exhibitions Composition and Shadows and Fragile Structures: The Architecture of Decay
About the Opening | Thursday 30 July
Official Opening + Artist Talks | In the Gallery, from 5:30pm
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About the Exhibitions
Exhibition Title | Composition and Shadows
Artist | Sarit Cohen
Exhibition Statement
Composition and Shadows is an exhibition of ceramics exploring architectural moments shaped by the artist's upbringing in Israel. Influenced by a nuanced understanding of the Bauhaus and the Decorative Arts movement of the early 20th century, the exhibition features whimsical sculptural vessels and objects. Beguiling forms made from delicate porcelain clay draw the eye to ‘lines’ that both reinforce the linear rhythms of the forms or conversely subvert their practicality. The use of a minimal palette, a reduced colour scheme and simple shapes offer a sense of calm and serenity.
Exhibition Title | Fragile Structures: The Architecture of Decay
Artists | Fran Romano + Madeline Cardone
Exhibition Statement
This exhibition is a collaboration between visual artists Madeline Cardone and Fran Romano. Working in glass and ceramics respectively, the artists share an overlapping conceptual and material language. Both are fascinated by the built environment, exploring ruins, decay, voids and architectural phenomenology through the deconstruction and reconstruction of space. They share a common cultural heritage that informs their practices and strengthens this collaboration.
Both artists have recently been exploring abstraction of form and space in a sculptural context. Ceramics and glass have common material properties, and both artists work in processes that seek to highlight and challenge the dualities inherent in these materials, notions of strength, fragility, permanence and transience. They explore the qualities of each material that are unexpected, highlighting the process of discovery in the outcome of the works.
Through an architectural lens, the artists explore how space is articulated, divided or transformed by materiality to invite reflection. Notions of stillness and contemplation are integral to both practices. The act of contemplation connects us to time's continuum and shapes how we relate to and encounter our environments past and present.
This body of sculptural work encompasses a collection of wall, plinth and floor based pieces. The works emphasise the tactility and surface qualities of the materials, encouraging viewers to enter the space and interact with the works themselves, experiencing a sense of structure and void. The artists aim to create an enveloping, comforting and private space within a space, mirroring the experience of entering an architectural environment.