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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Sherman | 100
• Sale Date:
  11 May 2022 ~ 5pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  33
• Lot Description:
  John Young
  (born 1956)
  The Threshold, Winter - Spring, 1996
  meoscan, synthetic polymer paint and oil on canvas
  274.5 x 303.0cm (108 1/16 x 119 5/16in). (diptych, overall)
  signed, dated and inscribed verso: 'The Threshold / Winter - / Spring 1996 / John Young / assisted by / Renata Petanceski'
• Provenance:
  Sherman Galleries, Sydney; The Gene & Brian Sherman Collection, Sydney
• Notes:
  Bill Wright and I met with John Young in his studio during Sherman Galleries early days. We talked aesthetics and art theory – relatively new fields of inquiry for me in those days. I knew John respected and endorsed Imants Tillers' Book of Power meta project. Imants had already joined the Gallery and I was starting to get a glimpse of the focus and range of conceptual art practices. John joined our thoughtfully curated Sherman Galleries group soon thereafter, and with his Double Ground works – juxtaposing painted panels and photographic images – he created a series of quite exceptional shows between 1994 and 2006. Our exhibition installations were often quite complex and specific to each body of work. I remember our team working hard to create curved walls as per John's vision for a particular body of work. We painted and repainted surfaces, moved and constructed room dividers, intelligently adapting architect Andrew Andersons' beautifully conceived 350 square metre space into areas and atmospheres that offered our artists the best possible mise en scène for their work.Regular trips to Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Launceston to visit our nationwide represented artists plus bi- or tri-annual Asia-wide studio visits, were part of my multifaceted gallerist duties. John and his beautiful wife Kate Mizrachi often welcomed me into their Melbourne home for dinner. I visited John's bustling studio where at the time several assistants were working under his artistic direction preparing canvases, sourcing internet images and overall assisting him in bringing his grand vision to fruition. The works on offer in this grouping sit firmly within John's important Double Ground oeuvre. Landscape and figure dominate with the technology of the camera sitting alongside the traditional medium of paint. Conceptually the work underpins the flow of time. Aesthetically the work speaks to the beauty and importance of image making and to the link between the artist's hand, mechanical means of production and the viewer's gaze. Dr Gene Sherman
• Estimate:
  A$15,000 - 25,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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