#9 (venue specific project)

BLACKARTPROJECTS AND JOHN R NEESON PRESENT

B L A C K

#9

9 Little Oxford StreetCollingwood, Victoria, Australia13 - 27 September, 2014

#9

In #9 the usually bipartite aspects of John R. Neeson’s practice have been temporarily brought together. This is the 35th in the series of projects he has initiated that involve representation and site specificity. The modus operandi of his practice is to use the ‘gallery’ as both exhibition and studio/performance space. The resulting works references the passage of time as the transition of daylight at the site using mirrors and painted trompe l’oeil representations of mirrors.

In #9 his usual approach is inverted and the studio, destined for demolition, becomes the venue in which to experience Neeson’s usual ‘slow burn’ involving light, archetype forms and mirror imagery. The project is also differentiated from others because it takes place in a building he has occupied for five years which has made him extremely aware of the transition of daylight and the subtle colour reflected, for example, into his former studio. His projects have grown out of an interrogation of the marginalised genre Still Life and the rooms that house them and this project acknowledges that genesis. A visually continuous, actual and illusionist shelf runs through the building and supports real and re-presentations of primarily white and black objects. The observer/participant becomes atuned to the linear, iconic and material relationship between these forms and their location by traversing the space.

#9

#9 Painting 1 (2014)oil on canvas61 x 183 cm

#9 Painting 2 (2014)oil on canvas61 x 244 cm

#9 Shelf (detail)found objects, mixed media, timber shelfdimensions variable

#9 Painting 3 (2014)oil on canvas61 x 183 cm

#9 Shelf (detail)found objects, mixed media, timber shelfdimensions variable

#9 Shelf (detail)found objects, mixed media, timber shelfdimensions variable

This project has been assisted by the Yarra City Council’s Project Grants scheme.

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