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'Albert Tucker Beyond the Modern' on view at the Heide Museum of Modern Art |
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Installation view, Meditation on a Bone: Albert Tucker Beyond the Modern, 2018. Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne. Photograph: Christian Capurro.
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MELBOURNE.- Meditation on a Bone: Albert Tucker Beyond the Modern explores how Tuckers fascination with art of the past and other cultures informed his painting over the decades.
In researching the exhibition, ceramicist and guest curator Glenn Barkley mined Tuckers library and archive for images of the maskan age-old and culturally loaded motif that has inspired artists across time.
Along with iconic paintings from across Tuckers career, the display includes books, photographs and archival material from his personal collection, together with works by a range of modernist and contemporary artistsincluding Barkleywho use the mask literally and conceptually as a way to obscure meaning, invite nostalgia, and connect histories.
Curator Glenn Barkley says: Reading though Tuckers library, it is revealing how many of his books include images of masks as well as images that turn objects into dramatis personae. Tucker uses the mask as a way of hiding or illuminating aspects of personality through his paintings; his antipodean heads have a particular abstracted mask-like appearance derived from Etruscan antiquity, while the figures in his late series, Faces I Have Met, have a distinctly mask-like countenance. He was also a collector of Papua New Guinean masks and had an extensive collection of books about non-Western and non-Anglo cultures that included images of ceremonial and cultural significance.
Meditation on a Bone offers an opportunity to bring Tuckers library and archive into a new context as a machine for making art. I have brought other artists and their objects into that dialogue and the exhibition includes works by Laurence Aberhart, Lynda Draper, Tony Albert, Karla Dickens, Tom Polo and Tarryn Gill, among others, whose works expand on the mask as a subject. The artworks unnervingly return the viewers gazesometimes mute but never blanksuggesting the masks everyone uses to negotiate daily life.
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