Taking It All Away
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
18.12.14 - 22.02.15
Taking It All Away: MCA Collection
Gordon Bennett | Christian Capurro et al. (feat. Chris Bond) | Peter Cripps | Gail Hastings | Robert Hunter | Rose Nolan | Stuart Ringholt
curated by Natasha Bullock
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Signatures Poster (Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette), 2004-07
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Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette returns to Australia after a decade for its inaugural presentation at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, in whose collection it now resides.
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Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette
Taking It All Away installation view
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This staging of the project involves a gallery installation of the project along the lines of the Venice and Leuven showings. For this occasion Chris Bond was invited to participate and his response, Vogue Hommes, September 1986, Mirror, 2014, a treatment of Another Misspent Portrait's... source magazine as a painted object, is an important and welcomed addition to the installation.
Chris Bond
Vogue Hommes, September 1986, Mirror, 2014
Oil on linen, 30 x 22 x 1cm
installation view
Each Thursday evening in January at the MCA at 6pm there will be presentations and events as part of the project's 'response' program.
These include an artist talk by Christian Capurro (8th); the opportunity for a 'dermal reading' of the erased and inscribed Vogue Hommes magazine when it can once again be held and touched (15th); Dr Karen de Perthuis presenting a talk entitled Erasing Fashion: Reflections on Fashion Photography and Christian Capurro's 'Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette' (22nd); and, in a late correction to the program, a second 'dermal reading', this time facilitated by Natsha Bullock, curator of Taking It All Away (29th).
Additionally, an intact, unerased copy of the Vogue Hommes #92, September 1986, magazine has been placed in the Schaeffer Fine Arts Library at the Power Institute, University of Sydney, with the call number 746.92 109.
For the duration of the show the Another Misspent Portrait's... editioned project poster will be available at the MCA store.
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Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette
Taking It All Away installation view
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Museum of Contemporary Art
140 George Street
The Rocks
Sydney NSW 2000
Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette
collaborator-eraser's package 2001
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