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MARY EAGLE, art historian and curator (author of Peter Purves Smith: A Painter in Peace and War, and some other books about Australian art), is Vernon Ah Kee's aust for this exhibition. She is white to his black: a positioning that is enforced by Vernon's signs. As aust, however, she is in the happy role of caring for his art and honouring its significance. Contact: |
Reflections My main post-exhibition thought was that artists and curators in their various ways seemed all to be expressing the truism that 'abstraction' never exists in the ether but always within the context of abstracting. You could say that abstraction is pre-determined by the context in which it takes place. There was an amazing period in twentieth-century western art when a concerted effort was made to get rid of content, idea, feeling: ie, to abstract everything except the material. It was a very heady moment. Into the gap rushed everything contingent - the context. Mary curated Vernon Ah Kee's works
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