Billy Apple®, Mikala Dwyer, Lewis Fidock & Joshua Petherick, Isa Genzken, Simryn Gill, Robert MacPherson, Jessica Stockholder, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Lawrence Weiner
Threshold of things
27
May –
08 Jul 2023
Melbourne
1/36
Lawrence Weiner IN THE WAY, 2016 Language + the materials referred to Dimensions variable Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US
Robert MacPherson "MY SHOES ARE PAINTINGS!!!" 20 FROG POEMS, LITORIA CHLORIS, 1982 - 1988 Metal-stick on wood, plastic lobster Two parts, 100 x 181 x 8.5 cm overall Courtesy of Yuill|Crowley, Sydney, AU
Robert MacPherson MAYFAIR; ‘ROPE A DOPE’ HERE’S ONE FOR YOU SAMMY, 2002-07 Dulux Weathershield synthetic polymer paint on Masonite Three parts, 122 x 273 cm overall Courtesy of Yuill|Crowley, Sydney, AU
Robert MacPherson MAYFAIR; ‘ROPE A DOPE’ HERE’S ONE FOR YOU SAMMY, 2002-07 (detail) Dulux Weathershield synthetic polymer paint on Masonite Three parts, 122 x 273 cm overall Courtesy of Yuill|Crowley, Sydney, AU
Lewis Fidock & Joshua Petherick Make a Wish! (red), 2022-23 (detail) Burlap, steel, muslin, rope, latex, synthetic polymer paint 157 x 92.50 x 11.50 cm
Lewis Fidock & Joshua Petherick
Make a Wish! (plum), 2022-23 (detail) Burlap, steel, muslin, rope, latex, synthetic polymer paint 104 x 65.50 x 26.50 cm
Lewis Fidock & Joshua Petherick Make a Wish! (green and yellow), 2022-23
Burlap, steel, muslin, rope, latex, synthetic polymer paint 167 x 106 x 46.5 cm
Lewis Fidock & Joshua Petherick Make a Wish! (green and yellow), 2022-23 (detail)
Burlap, steel, muslin, rope, latex, synthetic polymer paint 167 x 106 x 46.5 cm
An exhibition presenting works alluding to everyday images, motifs, materials and language, composed with a particular poetic refinement. A combination allowing for a distortion of the threshold of things, through a breaking down of elements then an animated evolution.
This play with the threshold of things allows for elements to remain unrefined, while others are poised, leading to outcomes of ill-defined form and agency, while other elements are bold and definitive. All this allows for a grounding effect and removes conversations concerning high and low, instead offering an evolution and repositioning of the threshold of art.
Thinking of time, places and things: late 1960s Turin, hand painted signs on the roadside, Paula Cooper’s New York, newspaper wrapped around uranium glassware, the words of Borges, the contents of an attic belonging to three generations of a family, the restoration of an old French car and stones placed in a circle in a wood by an unknown individual.