Added: Aug 18, 2011

From: ArtatCMaG

Duration: 2:57

This video shows a small selection of works from the exhibition Imitation of life: memory and mimicry in Canberra region art. The work in this exhibition is concerned with representation, not in a traditional sense of representing what is seen but at a kind of distance: the representation of things remembered, and the re-presentation of existing imagery. Memory and mimicry. The 27 artists included in Imitation of life give form to things copied and remembered in work that variously mines art history, archives, illustrated encyclopaedias, science and nature journals, maps, newspapers, advertising, bodice rippers, children's books, comics, toys, tools and appliances, furniture, signage and more, in its production. The historical art practices that have informed the work in this exhibition include pop art, dada, surrealism and conceptual art, as well as eighteenth- and nineteenth- century European scientific and natural history illustration. Modern traditions of socially and politically committed art resonate in Imitation of life, as do post-modern practices of the 1980s and 1990s that copied and quoted from existing imagery in the service of political satire. In this exhibition representation is given form through various filters, including the act of remembering. The original source material is transformed through layers of selection, fragmentation, distortion, embellishment, and by significant shifts in scale and materials. Imitation of life features works by 27 artists from Canberra and the region: Danie Mellor Erica Seccombe Ruth Waller Imants Tillers Rachel Bowak Julian Laffan Martyn Jolly Stephanie Jones Nicola Dickson Julie Ryder Ann McMahon Rose Montebello Al Munro Patsy Hely Robert Boynes Jane Barney David Watt Vivienne Binns Louise Pinder Geoff Farquhar-Still Lyndall Kennedy Hamilton Darroch Nick Stranks Emily O'Brien Jay Kochel Kirsten Farrell Janenne Eaton Imitation of life: memory and mimicry in Canberra region art 25 June - 16 October 2011 Gallery 2/3 Canberra Museum and Gallery Cnr London Cct and Civic Square, Canberra City, Australia http://www.museumsandgalleries.act.gov.au

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