Mirror Mirror: Then and Now
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Mirror Mirror: Then and Now
Shusaku Arakawa | Art & Language | Robyn Backen | Ian Burn | Christian Capurro | Peter Cripps | Hugo Demarco | Mikala Dwyer | Alex Gawronski | Richard Hamilton | Joan Jonas | Julio Le Parc | Roy Lichtenstein | Callum Morton | Yoko Ono | Meret Oppenheim | Michelangelo Pistoletto | Robert Pulie | Eugenia Raskopoulos | Robert Rauschenberg | Jacky Redgate | Robert Smithson.
curated by Ann Stephen
White Breath (Passenger), 2009
mirrored wardrobe doors with correction fluid, and reflected light
ea. mirror 180 x 100 x 3.5 cm / light reflection variable
collection of the artist
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Exhibition Venues & Dates
14.05. - 16.07.2010
Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide.
04.01. - 02.05.2010
The University of Sydney Art Galleries, Sydney.
25.10. - 12.12.2009
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
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In the 1960s, mirrors began to be used by artists across a spectrum of international movements including pop, kinetic, minimal, and conceptual art. Mirror surfaces reflected the environment and the viewer, 'like a visual pun on representation', as Ian Burn observed. Not just a looking glass, mirrors indexed the instability of perception, while inviting a viewer to participate in the purported endgame of late modernism. Mirror Mirror presents classic mirror pieces from the 1960s and early 1970s by major artists including Robert Smithson, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Art & Language, Ian Burn, Joan Jonas, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Yoko Ono, Meret Oppenheim, Richard Hamilton, and Shusaku Arakawa. Alongside them are works by contemporary Australian artists - Robyn Backen, Christian Capurro, Peter Cripps, Mikala Dwyer, Alex Gawronski, Callum Morton, Eugenia Raskopoulos, Jacky Redgate, and Robert Pulie - that offer all kinds of interconnections and reverberations with the earlier work.
Catalogue available.
Mirror Mirror: Then and Now is an IMA joint project with the University Art Gallery, University of Sydney, in association with Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide.
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The making of this work was supported by an IMA Residency.
White Breath (Passenger), 2009
mirrored wardrobe doors with correction fluid, and reflected light
ea. mirror 180 x 100 x 3.5 cm / light reflection variable
collection of the artist
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