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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Australian Art Collection of Sandra Powell & Andrew King
• Sale Date:
  19 Mar 2014 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  34
• Lot Description:
  Imants Alfred Tillers
  (Born 1950)
  Blossoming 8, 2006
  acrylic, gouache on 54 canvas-boards
  229 x 214cm (overall)
• Provenance:
  Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
• Exhibited:
  Imants Tillers: Melancholy Landscape, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, 13 March - 5 April 2008 ('Blossoming 15')
• References:
  Olivia Sophia, Imants Tillers: Melancholy Landscape, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, 2008 [pamphlet]
• Notes:
  " Poetry is a speaking picture and painting is a silent poem " Simonides of Ceos Since the 1960s Imants Tillers has exhibited extensively and has represented Australia at the S‹o Paulo Bienal in 1975, Documenta 7 in 1982, and the 42nd Venice Biennale in 1986. In 2012, Tillers was awarded the Wynne Prize for his painting, Namatjira 1913 - inspired by the work of the Hermannsburg artist. Throughout his career, Tillers has paid homage to past Australian and international artists including Eugene von GuŽrard, Marcel Duchamp and Giorgio de Chirico, Anselm Keifer and Colin McCahon. Blossoming 8 2006 has references to both European and Australian painters. The upper section of the composition hints to the leafless trees in wintry landscapes of Egon Schiele and Paul Gauguin, while the lower part recalls the uniquely Australian ochre red land as it was captured by Fred Williams. There is also something of Rosalie Gascoigne's compositions in the larger cropped letters superimposed across the painting. These words and phrases are drawn from StŽphane MallarmŽ and the narcoleptic poet John Anderson. The latter's appropriation identifiable lower centre with 'THE WORLD CANNOT BE OVERCOME BY THE ANALOGUE " I "', was also a source of inspiration also for his important painting Mount Analogue (1985, National Gallery of Australia). On discussing Tiller's Blossoming series, Deborah Hart noted that, 'while the recent body of work has come to connect more closely with the environment, ideas around ecology informed debates in the 1970s about the mutability of art, which led to the inception of the canvas-board system as an interconnected whole of multiple parts, continually open to regeneration, recycling and reinvention'1. In Blossoming 8 2006, maestro Tillers combines the lyrical qualities of the Australian landscape with appropriated and forgotten abstract concrete poetry to produce a unique vision of the complex, multi-layered and haptic environment that surrounds us. 1 Deborah Hart, Imants Tillers: One World Many Visions, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2006, p.80
• Estimate:
  A$30,000 - 50,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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