Gesture, 1993-old

City Gallery, Melbourne 3 February – 28 February, 1993
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 19 October - 12 November, 1994
Embrace, Trinity Grammar School, 3 – 24 May 1995
What John Berger Saw, Canberra School of Art Gallery, 10 September – 7 November 1999

Deconstructing the meaning of gesture through visual representations within the history of painting to contemporary media.

This body of work examines the language and meaning of gesture within western representations. The gesture, removed from its context is severed from the past and magnified under the microscope of the 20th century. This intervention with our history enables a re-writing of the values and meaning ascribed to it. From its initial depiction in painting, the language of gesture has been a persistent means of narration both visually and symbolically. The most powerful application of gesture emanated from the liturgical proceedings of Mass and from the law courts in its judicial procedures. These rituals were concerned with communicating significance in a comprehensible form to maintain the power, authority and control it held over its audience.

Review by Evelyn Jures

Allure

Rhetoric

Assert

Restrain

Confident

Open

Sincerity

Silence Surrender Submission (triptych), 1993

Installation View

 
 

Gesture I – VII, 1993

Gesture I (from “Self Portrait” by Anton Raffael Mengs, 1774), 1993

Gesture II ( from “A Philosophers” (? Plato) by Juseppe de Ribera), 1631, 1993

Gesture III (from Jean-August Dominique Ingre’s ‘Portrait of Mme Moitessier, 1842), 1993

Gesture IV (from Jusepe de Ribera espanol’s ‘A Philosopher, (- Protagoras), 1637, 1993

Gesture V, (from Johann Baptist Lampi d A’s ‘Portrait of Alexander Beshorodko’ 1794), 1993

Gesture VI ( from Jean-August Dominique Ingre’s ‘Portrait of Mme Marie Marcotte de Sainte Marie”, 1826), 1993

Gesture VII (from “A Philosophers” (?Aristotle) by Juseppe de Ribera), 1631, 1993

 

 

Gesture, 1994
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 19 October - 12 November, 1994

The Explorer, 1993

The Doctor, 1993

The Gentleman, 1993

The Geographer, 1993

The Saint, 1993

The Mathematician, 1993

The Collector, 1993

The Aristocrat, 1993

The Scholar, 1993

The Merchants Agenda, 1993

The Ambassador's Effects, 1993

The Wrap, 1993

 

 

Advertising Gesture, 1994

Personify, 1994

Embody, 1994

Portray, 1994

Enact, 1994

Mould, 1994

Pose, 1994

Mimic, 1994

Model, 1994