Garth Knight at .M Contemporary
16 Nov2013
Thursday 14th November saw the opening of a new exhibition of work by Garth Knight, the first Australian artist to show at M Contemporary Gallery in Ocean St Woollahra.
Breath
Red and Purple Butterflies
Detail of the Installation
The Director of Head On photo festival, Moshe Rosenzveig, delivered an excellent opening address, describing Garth as an engineer, which I found very interesting. Moshe went on to discuss the dichotomy between 'real' and created or manipulated imagery and, ultimately, the validity of both. Garth's manipulated images depend completely on the real: to create 100 Breaths (illustrated above and below) he wrote a program, took 100 photographs of smoke from burning insence and applied that program to all 100 images. The variation in the results is stunning; the beauty of the geometry breathtaking.
15x images from 100 Breaths
Director Michelle Paterson, Garth, Moshe
Garth with Ana WojakGarth with Ana Wojak
Moshe Rosenzveig's opening address
Wasp
Two previous subjects
Francesca and guests
The exhibition was curated by independent curator Angeline Collings
This entry was posted on Saturday, November 16th, 2013 at 10:30 am , s, contemporary art, garth knight, australian art, paddington, head on
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