Robert MacPherson
He has been a central figure in Australian art since the 1970s, producing works which combine a rigorous conceptual base with observations about ordinary life and people. The surface simplicity and austerity of his works belie his complex investigation into visual and linguistic structures. Focusing on the structures of the common world around him and drawing from the folkloric traditions of rural Australia, he creates works that are playful and poetic.
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MacPherson thus highlights the disjunction between the ordered system of language and the world’s chaotic plethora of things that language describes. He celebrates both the refined beauty of art and the banality of everyday life…
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… There was a certain warmth to this group of works by MacPherson. The materials and narratives of the works enabled viewers new to MacPherson’s work to understand his concern with particularly Australian languages and histories.
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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