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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Michèle Asprey Collection of Australian Contemporary Art
• Sale Date:
  10 Nov 2013 ~ 4pm
• Lot #:
  27
• Lot Description:
  Janet Laurence
  (Born 1947)
  Memory Space, 2006 (forms part of her major work In Stance of Memory, part of the Art Gallery of New South Wales' collection)
  shinkolite acrylic; edition of 10/24
  20cm high x 34cm wide
  initialled and dated 2006
• Provenance:
  acquired by donation to Art Gallery of New South Wales 2006
• Notes:
  Janet Laurence was born in Sydney in 1947. She is best known for her site-specific installations that extend from the museum or gallery space into the natural world, exploring notions of art, science, imagination, memory and loss. She has ranged across painting, sculpture, photography, installation, working with pigments and ash, scientific instruments and all manner of glass. In Stance Of Memory (Garden of the Jewish Museum, Berlin), 2005 ÒThe Garden is already a layered space - its aesthetic and natural qualities often veil its symbolic meanings or reveal them as reflective spaces. I consistently returned to the garden as an immersive and symbolic space for my concerns combining the exploration of memory and the memorial. Spaces of reflection, that also engage perceptually and sensually; spaces that enable a passage, both metaphorically and within time. Spaces that are constructed and natural, that grow and die and bloom again creating a sense of dissolve and collapse. As a space of transformation in the way memory shifts and recreates itself and persists. Its past is always in the present. This work IN STANCE OF MEMORY takes the Garden of the Jewish Museum - the Hoffmanngarten - and juxtaposes materiality and illusion. Photographic images emerge and disperse and bleed away. In red glazed pours over stainless and rusted steel I'm attempting to explore the shift between the reflective perceptual space into a space of memory and a psychological reflection, a play between movement and stasis. The architectural structures of the 49 columns of this seemingly solid space become fluid and transparent; the leaf laden pathways disappear into darkness; the whole space becomes fugitive.Ó Janet Laurence
• Estimate:
  A$1,500 - 2,500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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