At the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Destiny Deacon’s exhibition\u00a0Going Strait<\/em>\u00a0expresses a recent trend in the artist\u2019s work. Composed of the artist\u2019s family portrait, the framed pictures installation covers one of the wall of the gallery.<\/p>\n This frame arrangement shares formal affinities with Flemish altarpieces of the Renaissance, these detailed artworks composed of multiple scenic. Like in the Ghent Altarpiece by the Van Eyck brothers, the main image reveals a central scene whereas the standing figures are situated at the edges. When the 14th century painters depicted a symbolic Christian vision of the Passion and the primitive couple Adam and Eve, the contemporary artist uses her family\u2019s picture to materialise the world.<\/p>\n This installation, from the series Frieze Frames, underlines the classical trend in contemporary Aboriginal art and contrasts to the provocative style of Gordon Bennett\u2019s videos. Destiny Deacon used to deal with more openly political issues but this serene work responds for the national representation\u2019s criteria of the next Biennale of Venice.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n More info:<\/span><\/p>\n Going Strait, by Destiny Deacon<\/span> Going Strait exhibition At the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Destiny Deacon’s exhibition\u00a0Going Strait\u00a0expresses a recent trend in the artist\u2019s work. Composed of the artist\u2019s family portrait, the framed pictures installation covers one of the wall of the gallery. This frame arrangement shares formal affinities with Flemish altarpieces of the Renaissance, these detailed artworks composed of multiple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[51,832,247,273,830,272],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chroniques-curatoriales","tag-51","tag-aboriginal-art","tag-chronique-curatoriale","tag-destiny-deacon","tag-exhibition","tag-going-strait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRoslyn Oxley9 gallery, Sydney, Paddington. <\/span>
\nFrom 3 to 19 May 2012<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"