Currently Natasha Bullock, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales is curating a photo media exhibition where this medium is used in surprising ways for the viewer.
Using different media by artists in surprising unusual ways inspires Bullock as a curator. Examples of this are the Erased touring exhibition of Contemporary Australian Drawing,which Natasha Bullock solely curated and the exhibition of Bill Viola's Tristan project in Sydney in 2008,which she co-curated with Anthony Bond, Assistant Director, Curatorial Services at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Christian Capurro’s works encapsulated the exhibition’s title. “The Melbourne artist uses layering and rubbing, ink and correction fluid to erase and correct images from the pages of different magazines. The remains are a physical trace which, contrast to the hyper-visibility of imagery in contemporary culture…which could be described as a fusion between representation and gestural abstraction…there’s absence and presence in these works…these are ghosts of human activity…they resist total comprehension."(Erased Exhibition Catalogue p8)
Bill Viola’s Tristan Project explored an operatic body of work which celebrated the great love of Tristan and Isolde. Bill Viola used the medium of video to show where water became the meeting place for different worlds, the real and imaginary. (Exhibition Catalogue p5)
In 2008 Bullock also curated the exhibition of works by legendary photographer Harold Cazneaux. www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/archived/2008/cazneaux
Using different media by artists in surprising unusual ways inspires Bullock as a curator. Examples of this are the Erased touring exhibition of Contemporary Australian Drawing,which Natasha Bullock solely curated and the exhibition of Bill Viola's Tristan project in Sydney in 2008,which she co-curated with Anthony Bond, Assistant Director, Curatorial Services at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Christian Capurro’s works encapsulated the exhibition’s title. “The Melbourne artist uses layering and rubbing, ink and correction fluid to erase and correct images from the pages of different magazines. The remains are a physical trace which, contrast to the hyper-visibility of imagery in contemporary culture…which could be described as a fusion between representation and gestural abstraction…there’s absence and presence in these works…these are ghosts of human activity…they resist total comprehension."(Erased Exhibition Catalogue p8)
Bill Viola’s Tristan Project explored an operatic body of work which celebrated the great love of Tristan and Isolde. Bill Viola used the medium of video to show where water became the meeting place for different worlds, the real and imaginary. (Exhibition Catalogue p5)
In 2008 Bullock also curated the exhibition of works by legendary photographer Harold Cazneaux. www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/archived/2008/cazneaux
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