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Boldly abstract
Granadina, oil
on linen, by Robert
Jacks The title
of this show of boldly-coloured abstract
works refers to a 1950s recording of the
same name by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis,
featuring the great Spanish guitarist,
Segovia. Jacks,
born in 1943, is one of Australia's
leading abstract artists and throughout
his career has worked to express his ideas
of Modernism through a range of media,
including painting, sculpture, printmaking
and drawing. The Lister
Calder Gallery, at 316 Rokeby Road, was
set up by Roshana Calder in 1999 to
support and exhibit established
contemporary Australian
artists. It also
deals in works by some of the great names
of Australian art, such as Arthur Boyd,
Sidney Nolan, Tucker, Fred Williams and
Guy Grey-Smith. Robert
Jacks will be present at the opening of
his show by Art Gallery of WA director
Alan Dodge at 7pm on Tuesday, February
6. The
exhibition will run until February 27.
Gallery hours are weekdays 10am to 5pm,
Sundays 2 to 5pm. Art
on the fringe The first
is Aboriginal Art on the Fringe, a
collection of works in new media by
Aboriginal artists and graduating students
dealing with contemporary issues affecting
indigenous people. The show
is in the Aboriginal Art and Craft Gallery
under the look-out in Fraser Avenue,
King's Park, and will be open for another
two or three weeks. The second
Fringe show is Aerotomechanex, which will
be opened by Fringe Festival director Tony
Bonney at 6.30pm on Tuesday, February
6. Aerotomechanex
is a group exhibition of work by acclaimed
international graffiti artists - Fink,
Hobit, Safer Shrume and Stormie from
Perth, and Juice 126, System and Rough
from the UK. As well as
showcasing some of their work,
Aerotomechanex will involve the creation
of a mural. Their work
can be seen in the Jacksue Gallery, 486
Murray Street, Perth, from February 6 to
11. New
Perth International Arts Festival
shows • Do
It, new work by 17 WA artists from a
concept by international curator
Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Lawrence Wilson Art
Gallery, UWA, from Friday, February 9 to
April 15. •
Jeremy Kirwan-Ward, Surfacing, at Perth
Galleries, Subiaco, until February
27. •
Nien Schwarz, Promised Land, at the Church
Gallery, Claremont, until February
18. •
Henryk Szydlowski, The Magical Earth, at
Stafford Studios, Cottesloe, until March
4. Still
showing: •
Kiki Smith, prints and drawings, at
Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, West Perth,
until February 9. •
Pamela Lofts, Not Herself, Fremantle Arts
Centre, until February 18. With Fringe
shows Undercover (works by WA artist Kate
McMillan) and Yo! (self-portraits by
Fremantle artist Abraham Dunovits), both
until February 18. •
Four Warmun Ngarliwarrin, at Artplace,
Claremont, until February 18. •
Simryn Gill, A Small Town at the Turn of
the Century, at PICA, until March
4. •
Robert MacPherson, paintings and
installations, at the Art Gallery of WA,
until March 18. Festival
views At the gallery one had the distinct
impression someone might just be taking
the mickey... Contemporary artist Robert MacPherson
states that he puts his paintbrush in the
paint and every movement beyond that point
is "superfluous". His superfluous art regrettably
occupies the entire ground floor of the
art gallery. In an open letter to another painter
MacPherson notes that there is little
between art ending up in a gallery and
ending up in a junk shop. The point is well made... Back
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