there's never a dull moment when you work in a warehouse with three galleries, a french designer, a workaholic man-child with a penchant for making, three boisterous kids, a dog, an ever-revolving display of amazing hand-made and crafted design objects, clothing, art and an assortment of visiting people from far and wide.
i find myself compelled to document what goes on - you'll find photo diaries and videos on this blog - because it's the sort of hub of activity you know is generating something. activating energy.
i found this video of a recent opening that i totally forgot to post here, so i will now! we have a whole video channel set up over at vimeo if you ever want to look through what goes on. the art openings dominate because they are such exciting events. there's a link over there on the right hand side, 'STOCKROOM VIDEOS' >>>
Exhibition Launch_Sept2012: Barter, Gevers, Snaith from stockroom on Vimeo.
Showing posts with label kim barter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kim barter. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Thursday, October 4, 2012
vibration of place
there's a case among philosopher types in recent times that art is more about the impact that it has on your central nervous system than the simplistic aesthetics of what stimulates your eyes. the idea is that good art moves your organs. it makes you feel something in your inner core.
i mention this because standing in the middle of gallery 1, surrounded by the paintings of kim barter, the room practically vibrates. you feel somehow more alive to the moment because a mild sense of vertigo takes you. your eyes skirt around, looking for a place to settle. your body is jittery, wondering where to stand to take it in. it's activating and invigorating. it's exciting. it's like the shimmer of a hot summer's horizon, lifted up from the edges and pressed up around you in dazzling arrays of colour, shape and movement.
kim has travelled extensively, across the vast variety of geographical environments that make up the australian continent. rather than travel through the landscape, kim takes the time to occupy the space. to soak it in and filter it through the action of her expressive outlet. this is felt landscape, not just seen landscape.
there's a joyous quality to the mark making and brush-strokes. an exhilaration that activates the work. there's the sort of archived expressive action you see in pollock, fed through a contemplative appreciation of place you see in contemporary indigenous australian painting. and i'd be remiss if i didn't mention the colours. oh the colours! vivid, vibrant, vibrational overlay of energies. reds, pinks and sky blues pushing and pulling the warm and cool tones, bringing life to what is two-dimensional.
the show finishes this weekend so get in quick to take it all in. the scale of kim's undertaking in this project is immense and it so congruently fits the large expanse in gallery 1. there's few better ways to activate a space than by occupying it with art of this intensity. so come in quick and join the growing interest in kim's fabulous work.
i mention this because standing in the middle of gallery 1, surrounded by the paintings of kim barter, the room practically vibrates. you feel somehow more alive to the moment because a mild sense of vertigo takes you. your eyes skirt around, looking for a place to settle. your body is jittery, wondering where to stand to take it in. it's activating and invigorating. it's exciting. it's like the shimmer of a hot summer's horizon, lifted up from the edges and pressed up around you in dazzling arrays of colour, shape and movement.
Kim Barter, Coorong
kim has travelled extensively, across the vast variety of geographical environments that make up the australian continent. rather than travel through the landscape, kim takes the time to occupy the space. to soak it in and filter it through the action of her expressive outlet. this is felt landscape, not just seen landscape.
there's a joyous quality to the mark making and brush-strokes. an exhilaration that activates the work. there's the sort of archived expressive action you see in pollock, fed through a contemplative appreciation of place you see in contemporary indigenous australian painting. and i'd be remiss if i didn't mention the colours. oh the colours! vivid, vibrant, vibrational overlay of energies. reds, pinks and sky blues pushing and pulling the warm and cool tones, bringing life to what is two-dimensional.
the show finishes this weekend so get in quick to take it all in. the scale of kim's undertaking in this project is immense and it so congruently fits the large expanse in gallery 1. there's few better ways to activate a space than by occupying it with art of this intensity. so come in quick and join the growing interest in kim's fabulous work.
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