CURRENT EXHIBITION INFORMATION
PLEASE NOTE NEW HOURS FOR 2008:
WED - SAT 11 - 5
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Adrien Allen
Director
Conical Inc.
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Return to Form: NDINAVIA
Arlo Mountford
NOVEMBER 8 – NOVEMBER 29
Opening: Friday November 7 at 6pm
Arlo Mountford, Return to Form: NDINAVIA, 2008
Return to Form: NDINAVIA is a new video work by Arlo Mountford. Based upon an idea the artist can’t remember having, the work is an investigation into the validity of ideas and the necessary trust the audience must place in the artist.
Shot briefly in Venice and mostly in the Victorian Alps this video work is a short humorous narrative involving a Drunk, a Deer, a Polar Bear and a Wanderer.
With its tongue placed firmly in cheek Return to Form: NDINAVIA investigates the inception of an artistic idea and follows it through to its resolved conclusion. It takes the spontaneous ramblings of a drunken rant and treats them seriously making them physical, eventually leaving it up to the audience to make up their own minds as to whether it is a good idea or not.
Arlo works primarily with large-scale interactive installations paired with sound, video and animation. His humorous and often sardonic approach explores art history and the contextual relationship between contemporary art practice and its perceived past. Recently Arlo has completed a number of animations in which characters re-interpret art historical events, works and ideas in an attempt to decipher their own environments, situations and even their existence.
Arlo Mountford is based in Melbourne. In 2003 he took up a studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces. Arlo has been included in numerous group exhibitions including the ShContemporary: Best of Discovery Asia Pacific Contemporary Art Fair (2008), Adelaide Biennial (2006); and Heide Museum of Modern Art (2006). Arlo's most recent solo exhibitions have been at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces (2007) and Conical (2006). In 2007 Arlo was awarded the ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award and has recently returned from a residency at the Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen, Netherlands (2008).
Arlo exhibits regularly in both artist run and public galleries nationally and internationally.
Busting Out
Enclosure
Kel Glaister
NOVEMBER 8 – NOVEMBER 29
Kel Glaister, Busting Out, 2008
Busting out is a bratty attempt to make itself defunct. A vain momentum that gets caught up in circular logic.
This is a machine to make a rumour, and a machine that enacts the structure of a joke. There is the set-up, which creates tension, and then there is an event that dissolves that tension. And of course, it’s not quite so effective the second time round. The broken wall and spent rail stand afterwards as proof of a stupid exercise in inexorability.
Kel Glaister graduated from Monash University in 2005. Since then, she has exhibited in many artist-run spaces across Melbourne and in Sydney. Recent solo exhibtions include These endless days at Blindside. Group shows include Harmonious Proportions, at Linden and Floats like a brick doesn’t at BUS 2007. Glaister co-curated (with Tamsin Green and Imogen Beynon) Objects in Space as part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival and has curated several group shows.
Glaister is currently a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces.
Many thanks to Dale and Drew at Rock Martin, Tamsin Green, James Yencken, Kieran Stewart, Amy Marjoram, Toni Glaister, Brian Winch, Fiona Hillary, Brona Keenan, Adrien Allen & all at Conical.
This project was assisted by the Janet Holmes à Court Artists’ Grant, a NAVA initiative made possible by the generous sponsorship of Mrs Holmes à Court and the support of the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts.
This project was supported by the City of Yarra Community Grants Program.
