Mejia, 33 Tinning Street Brunswick East
1 November 2019
By Audrey Schmidt
Held at the newly opened Mejia gallery on Tinning Street, Brunswick (located near Neon Parc), on November 1st, the In Costume label launch included garments by Melbourne-based Canadian designer Brendan Morris produced with artist, Spencer Lai. The business card-like invitation reflects the label itself. It features a red rubber stamp-like graphic of planet earth with a trucker's cap perched on top and w...
Geelong Gallery
14 September – 24 November 2019
By Marnie Edmiston
It's declared in the title—these are small paintings. Unframed, diminutive and brief sketches attached to mounting boards, they're physically bookended by two larger and more 'substantial' paintings. These works are ephemeral—painted in oil directly on cardboard, these images will deteriorate. We're told by the exhibition text that they were never intended for public viewing. Y...
National Gallery of Victoria
31 October 2019 – 26 July 2020
Rex Butler
Rei Kawakubo's first Comme des Garçons show in Paris in April 1981 is now a legendary event in the history of fashion. Mounted unofficially at the Intercontinental Hotel during Prêt-à-Porter week and featuring just five models—she had not received the favour of the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, which decided, like the French Academy the century before, who would show duri...
Neon Parc City
16 October – 16 November 2019
In 2010, Elizabeth Newman exhibited a work called 1988, a brown envelope (propped up on a log), on the lower left hand corner of which 'Derrida' is written. The piece can be seen as emblematic of the concerns of much of her work of the last decade or so. Containing Newman's study notes from a course in continental philosophy she took many years before, the humble brown envelope is charged with a suggestion of meaning. Yet its...
Haydens
28 September – 23 November 2019
By Amelia Winata
Preparation is a group exhibition organised by artist Tim Bučkovic with works from Julie Irving, Jake Madel, Julius Linnenbrink, Manuel Gröger, Lalita Sherwell, Sibylle Czichon, Allan Rand, Ina Gerken and Bučkovic himself. Within the context of the exhibition, the word 'preparation' is both processual and genealogical. First, the works in the exhibition reveal some aspect of the process of their making and, as such, un...
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Part 1: 5 October – 1 November 2019
Part 2: 8 November – 21 December 2019
By Victoria Perin
Never the same river at Anna Schwartz Gallery feels like a birthday party. It is a retrospective of sorts, not of the artists or the gallery even, but of the career of the dealer Anna Schwartz herself. It is a two-part exhibition, the first launching this week and the second launching in early November. 37 years of gallery-stewardship is an odd milestone...
Australian Centre of Contemporary Art
14 September – 17 November 2019
By Philip Brophy
Hey, Siri. I want to make some contemporary art. Maybe something with sound.
Hi, Philip. Do you mean Sound Art?
I guess so, if that's what they call it.
Well, you should first check out the exhibition of Haroon Mirza at ACCA.
What?! Someone's done sound art already in a contemporary art space?!
Yes, Philip. You need to be more informed of what's happ...
Bendigo Art Gallery
17 August – 10 November 2019
By Matthew Linde
I was staying with Mona Bismarck in Capri when the news came. I was downstairs, dressed for dinner, having a drink. Consuelo Crespi telephoned me from Rome, saying it had just come over the radio that Balenciaga had closed his doors forever that afternoon, and that he'd never open them again. Mona didn't come out of her room for three days. I mean, she went into a complete…I mean, it was the en...
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