Tony Curran and Josh Foley talk about art, the LAG exhibition at LCGS and getting away from screens. Video Rod Thompson
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00:00 Yeah, so LAG is a group of contemporary painters from mainland Australia and Tasmania and it's
00:07 about this, what painting can do in contemporary visual society.
00:14 So ultimately, you know, we're surrounded by our screens and devices and so often we
00:19 think that handmade things are obsolete, but actually they do a different job and one of
00:24 the really important jobs that painting can do is to keep us really anchored to the present
00:29 moment and give us a material investigation that we can sort of be here in the present
00:35 now and use our bodies to explore visual media and a bit of an excuse to get off our phones
00:42 and actually see what happens when the light that comes from space, you know, comes in,
00:48 bounces around, bounces around an object and bewilders us in a way that we so often forget
00:54 that we can be bewildered by the visual world around us.
00:59 Yeah, this is a, it's not a recent work, but it is one that I believe warrants multiple
01:13 viewings and it's based on a Gould still life, he was a convict artist and it's called Sarah
01:25 Island because he was stationed there and did still lives for a commander or something
01:34 and obviously it's a fairly wild abstraction of that still life and I was, I guess like
01:41 some of the fleshy aspects to it kind of relate to the kind of violence of the atmosphere
01:50 and the, you know, maybe like lashings and, you know, building boats and knocking down
01:57 trees and all that kind of thing.
02:01 And then I guess also like it's an examination of like relief space and trying to like indicate
02:11 an illusory sort of perceptual terrain.
02:16 - All right.
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