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when: 03 September 2021 - 02 October 2021 | venue: Online | cost: Free | address: See event description for details on how to connect. | website: https://roslynoxley9.com.au | tickets: https://roslynoxley9.com.au
published: 08 Sep 2021, 5 min read
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Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is thrilled to present new work by Dale Frank in The Omega Variant Show, Frank's 34th solo exhibition with Roslyn Oxley9 gallery since 1982.
View the exhibition's walkthrough.
A directness is necessary (strife is necessary). Too much discussion has verged into poetics for either reasons of fashion or inability. The tension of opposites is necessary, strife is necessary, be it even just a 'contradiction'. It is 'war' rather than peace, or stillness that demonstrates the changes or flux that is the root of being, that makes it clear that nothing, not even the most stable seeming is really at rest. -Dale Frank, 1983
Frank's space depends instead on that measured emptiness as a flat surface which sometimes proposes an illusion of solidity by its very ebb and flow. 'Form' cannot exist since no boundaries occur. Lines are vectors, not contours, the dense pattern functioning as a force-field in which energies or auras are plotted. The emotional disturbances in his real-time work, each with individual features and occupying its proper temporal span, seem perfectly translated. Perfectly, and again abstractly...
Jasper Johns once admitted that only three art-historical statements interested him. One was Leonardo's opinion on line as representation of the limit of the body. Like Johns's, Frank's 'field' solved the same problem in a different way. But is he violating that solution by involving himself so completely with matter. The answer lies in the continuum of that world which is taking shape: solipsistic, sublime, exotic, unfree. More and more the 'strife' Frank has said he desires in art, his gesture of swerving or interference, the communicated tension of the performances, seem identical - tests of consciousness, that sudden fright or pinch by which we make certain we are still alive. -Stuart Morgan, ARTFORUM, VOL XXII, No 10. 1984
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Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is thrilled to present new work by Dale Frank in The Omega Variant Show, Frank's 34th solo exhibition with Roslyn Oxley9 gallery since 1982.
View the exhibition's walkthrough.
A directness is necessary (strife is necessary). Too much discussion has verged into poetics for either reasons of fashion or inability. The tension of opposites is necessary, strife is necessary, be it even just a 'contradiction'. It is 'war' rather than peace, or stillness that demonstrates the changes or flux that is the root of being, that makes it clear that nothing, not even the most stable seeming is really at rest. -Dale Frank, 1983
Frank's space depends instead on that measured emptiness as a flat surface which sometimes proposes an illusion of solidity by its very ebb and flow. 'Form' cannot exist since no boundaries occur. Lines are vectors, not contours, the dense pattern functioning as a force-field in which energies or auras are plotted. The emotional disturbances in his real-time work, each with individual features and occupying its proper temporal span, seem perfectly translated. Perfectly, and again abstractly...
Jasper Johns once admitted that only three art-historical statements interested him. One was Leonardo's opinion on line as representation of the limit of the body. Like Johns's, Frank's 'field' solved the same problem in a different way. But is he violating that solution by involving himself so completely with matter. The answer lies in the continuum of that world which is taking shape: solipsistic, sublime, exotic, unfree. More and more the 'strife' Frank has said he desires in art, his gesture of swerving or interference, the communicated tension of the performances, seem identical - tests of consciousness, that sudden fright or pinch by which we make certain we are still alive. -Stuart Morgan, ARTFORUM, VOL XXII, No 10. 1984
Go see Exhibition: The Omega Variant Show 2021.
Exhibition: The Omega Variant Show 2021 is on 03 September 2021 - 02 October 2021. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Sydney. Call 0293311919 for details. Visit their website at https://roslynoxley9.com.au.
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