12TH ADELAIDE BIENNIAL OF AUSTRALIAN ART 2012
02 Mar - 29 Apr 2012
12TH ADELAIDE BIENNIAL OF AUSTRALIAN ART 2012
Parallel Collisions
2 March - 29 April 2012
Curated by Natasha Bullock and Alexie Glass-Kantor
ARTISTS
Richard Bell
Stephen Bram
Pat Brassington
Philip Brophy
Robert Cook vs Max Pam
Timothy Cook
Daniel Crooks
Nicholas Folland
Pat Foster & Jen Berean
Marco Fusinato
Shaun Gladwell
Susan Jacobs
Jonathan Jones
Yvonne Koolmatrie
Rosemary Laing
Rob McLeish
Tom Nicholson
Philip Samartzis
Tim Silver
Ricky Swallow
Michelle Ussher
The Art Gallery of South Australia presents Parallel Collisions: 12th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. This exhibition is the only major biennial dedicated solely to presenting contemporary Australian art and is a flagship exhibition of the Adelaide Festival.
Parallel Collisions explores the ways in which ideas form, converge and re-form through time. The 21 artists in the exhibition employ the resources of the past - imagery, materials, processes or research from literature, cinema and art history - to reimagine the past in the present or even visualise the future.
Parallel Collisions is both the title and the conceptual framework of the exhibition. This term may at first seem a contradiction. Parallel lines, after all, cannot meet when considered in purely spatial terms however, with the added dimension of time, collision becomes possible. Presented across two physical platforms – the Elder Wing of Australian Art and the temporary exhibitions galleries – the biennial brings the past into dialogue with the present.
Parallel Collisions
2 March - 29 April 2012
Curated by Natasha Bullock and Alexie Glass-Kantor
ARTISTS
Richard Bell
Stephen Bram
Pat Brassington
Philip Brophy
Robert Cook vs Max Pam
Timothy Cook
Daniel Crooks
Nicholas Folland
Pat Foster & Jen Berean
Marco Fusinato
Shaun Gladwell
Susan Jacobs
Jonathan Jones
Yvonne Koolmatrie
Rosemary Laing
Rob McLeish
Tom Nicholson
Philip Samartzis
Tim Silver
Ricky Swallow
Michelle Ussher
The Art Gallery of South Australia presents Parallel Collisions: 12th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. This exhibition is the only major biennial dedicated solely to presenting contemporary Australian art and is a flagship exhibition of the Adelaide Festival.
Parallel Collisions explores the ways in which ideas form, converge and re-form through time. The 21 artists in the exhibition employ the resources of the past - imagery, materials, processes or research from literature, cinema and art history - to reimagine the past in the present or even visualise the future.
Parallel Collisions is both the title and the conceptual framework of the exhibition. This term may at first seem a contradiction. Parallel lines, after all, cannot meet when considered in purely spatial terms however, with the added dimension of time, collision becomes possible. Presented across two physical platforms – the Elder Wing of Australian Art and the temporary exhibitions galleries – the biennial brings the past into dialogue with the present.