Peter Adsett, Room with a View
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PETER ADSETT room with a view PAULNACHE MELBOURNE ART FAIR 2014
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Peter Adsett has challenged our perception in confusing the ground of painting. Wall, linen, paper and paint all compete to be identified as ground or figure. In the end we conclude that the only ground is the one where we stand. So the perspective we attain is actually one we are inside. Room with a View © 2014 Artist: Peter Adsett Author: Mary Alice Lee Design: Matt Nache Published in 2014 by PAULNACHE Publishing Images and text is copyright to the artist and PAULNACHE
Transcript of Peter Adsett, Room with a View
PETER ADSETT
room with a view
PAULNACHE
MELBOURNE ART FAIR 2014
No.3
No.4
PETER ADSETT
room with a view
Shouldn’t there be more artists today who could make us look at painting in terms of its co-operation with the surrounding architecture?
The view offered in this room is not the con-templative distance that we require when we behold �gurative work. These abstract paint-ings are without the perspectival trajecto-ries that focus the eye on a central point. And they don’t ‘stay’ inside their frames. Instead, the elements of the painting closely interact with the wall – and in fact, with all the architectural elements.
The walls at the Melbourne Art Fair have been treated in such a way as to make this idea inescapable. Torn wallpaper speaks to collage elements in the work, while holes and raw linen acknowledge the wall behind. Black paint does what it has to in working against shadow and depth. Layers of material peel away to expose undersides and reverses. All the works, walls included, are in an ongoing process of exposure.
Peter Adsett has challenged our perception in confusing the ground of painting. Wall, linen, paper and paint all compete to be identi�ed as ground or �gure.In the end we conclude that the only ground is the one where we stand. So the perspective we attain is actually one we are inside.
Mary Alice Lee
List of works
«Room with a View» (installation), 2014,Paint, wallpaper, wall and paintings, Dimen-sions vary
«Painting number 1-6», 2013-14, Acrylic and material on linen, 106.5 × 91.5 × 2.2 cm
«Painting number 7-11», 2014, Mixed material on linen, 56.7 × 69.7 × 2.2cm
«Paintings number 12-24», 2014, Mixed mate-rial on MDF board, 34.5 × 29.5 × 2.2cm
Biography
Born in Gisborne, New Zealand, in 1959, Peter Adsett has lived and worked in Australia since 1982, developing his painting practice. He exhibits regularly in both countries, and has had shows overseas in New York and Boston.
His academic credentials include an MFA from the Northern Territory University, and a PhD from Australian National University. In 2001 he was awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and enjoyed residencies in the International Studio and Curatorial Pro-gram in New York, and the McDowell Colony in New Hampshire. Adsett’s work is held in institutions and museums in Australia, New Zealand and Japan.Adsett has devoted twenty years now to an investigation of abstraction, and like such iconic �gures as Richard Serra and Robert Ryman, he proves the enterprise to be one of great, untapped potential. One could even view Adsett’s art as a critique of abstract painting from the early 20th century to today, a task that became further compli-cated when he confronted the art of Indig-enous Australians - what many believe is the most powerful painting produced today.
In 2000 he completed a series of large-scale acrylic paintings in collaboration with the Gija artist, Rusty Peters. The resulting exhibition of fourteen works (seven each), titled Two Laws, One Big Spirit travelled around Australia and New Zealand.
In 2009, Adsett built a house/studio in southern Victoria that was the fruit of another colaboration, this time with a New Zealand architect,Sam Kebbell.The innovative and much admired building (now housing Adsett and his family) is regarded as a “dialogue between painting and architecture.”
This is the direction currently being explored in the works for the 2014 Melbourne Art Fair. Whilst he would maintain that his paintings always “take on the wall”, Adsett’s recent work engages with this proposition explicitly. Furthermore, in Room with a View the viewer will discover a degree of wit and humour, latent in much of his earlier work, but now coming to the fore with zest.
Upstairs 89 Grey StreetGisborne 4010 New ZealandWed–Fri 10–5, Sat 10–[email protected]://www.paulnache.com/+64 6 867 9721
Melbourne Art Fair13-17 August 2014http://melbourneartfair.com.au
PAULNACHE Stand E125Ground �oor
«Room with a View»A conversation between Peter Adsett, Sam Kebbell and Mary Alice LeeSaturday 16 August, 11:00AM - 12:00PM
«Humbug tour»Artist House/ Studio and Private CollectionSunday 17 August, 9:30AM - 12:30PMCollector Pass holders onlyRSVP is essential
Cover: Painting No.5Works: Painting No.3 & No.4Photos: Tom Teutenberg
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