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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Michèle Asprey Collection of Australian Contemporary Art
• Sale Date:
  10 Nov 2013 ~ 4pm
• Lot #:
  11
• Lot Description:
  Tracey Moffatt
  (Born 1960)
  Invocations 8, from the series Invocations (2000)
  photo silkscreen; edition 42/60
  image size 126 x 102cm
  signed, titled, numbered and dated 2000 in pencil to margin
• Provenance:
  Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
• Notes:
  Born in Brisbane in 1960, Tracey Moffatt studied visual communications at the Queensland College of Art, from which she graduated in 1982. Since her first solo exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney in 1989, Moffatt, as a filmmaker as well as photographer, has held around 100 solo exhibitions of her work in Europe, the United States and Australia. Her films, including 'Nightcries - A rural tragedy', 1990, and 'Bedevil', 1993, have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival, the Dia Centre for the Arts in New York and the National Centre for Photography in Paris. Highly regarded for her formal and stylistic experimentation in film, photography and video, Tracey Moffatt is one of Australia's leading contemporary artists. She now lives and works in New York. Moffatt's photographs often reference the history of art and photography, as well as her own childhood memories and fantasies and explore issues of race, gender, sexuality and identity. The series 'Invocations' 2001 took two years to realise: one year in the studio in New York with sets and models constructing and shooting each scene, and one year working with printer Gene Licht in order to create the necessary effect and results. Between 15 and 25 silkscreens were used in order to build up richly textured surfaces which enhance the illusions set up within each frame. The subtlety of colour, tone and depth is seductive and brings into play additional references to painting as well as printmaking. The larger works draw on film references from Hitchcock's 'The Birds', to 'Mandingo' as much as they do on the Spanish artist Goya. The nature of fear and horror, obsession, passion, fight and flight - these extremes of emotion are all played out through the figures of the man and woman with ghostly spirits or their manifestations in other forms looking on.
• Estimate:
  A$5,000 - 8,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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