TRUE SELF: DAVID ROSETZKY SELECTED WORKS
6 JUNE – 12 JULY 2015
MAIN GALLERY
TRUE SELF: DAVID ROSETZKY SELECTED WORKS
Curated by Naomi Cass, Director, and Kyla McFarlane, Associate Curator at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
A Centre for Contemporary Photography and NETS Victoria touring exhibition
David Rosetzky is one of Australia’s foremost exponents of video art. He creates intensely beautiful videos, photographs, photo-collages and installations that explore identity, subjectivity and interpersonal relationships. Drawing on fifteen years of practice, this is the first comprehensive survey of his work to date. Lured by high production values and beautiful subjects, the viewer becomes ensnared in Rosetzky’s stiflingly stylish worlds. The artist heightens the alienation of his subjects through devices such as repetition of dialogue and action, seemingly random replacement of characters, and passages of choreography.
David Rosetzky, Living together is easy #3, 2002, lambda digital print on Fuji crystal archive paper, 64 x 93.5 cm each; edition AP2
Courtesy the artist and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
THE LITTLE GALLERY PROJECT SPACE
MAGICAL SECRECY TOUR: NANCY MAURO–FLUDE
Nancy Mauro-Flude presents an engaging installation utilising a wireless video camera and radio video transmitter to record her body moving through space. The viewer will be witness to a colourful and silent kinetic action.
Nancy Mauro–Flude, Magical Secrecy Tour, 2015 video still
Permanent Collection Corner
Devonport Regional Gallery’s permanent collection is a rich and diverse repository. Comprising of over 22,000 accessioned items acquired since 1973, it includes textiles, ceramics, glass, sculpture, paintings and works on paper by iconic Australian and Tasmanian artists. The pinnacle of the collection is the well-known Robinson Collection of photographic negatives, while the gallery also holds the Moon Collection of nineteenth century textiles and decorative arts, and a large number of watercolours and paintings by renowned North-West Coast artist Owen Lade. Other notable works include that of David Boyd, John Olsen, Clifton Pugh, Lloyd Rees, George Lambert, John Coburn, Edith Holmes, Dorothy Stoner, Bea Maddock, Pat Brassington, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Christopher Pyett, Grahame King, Ray Arnold, Les Blakebrough and Philip Wolfhagen. The Permanent Collection Corner will display a work to coincide with each exhibition in the main gallery, showcasing pieces in their own right and promoting the collection during the relocation project. It is a great opportunity for the community to view pieces rarely seen and to have a better understanding of what the collection holds. We hope you will enjoy them and we welcome your feedback!
