Invisible Cities

Stephen Nova, works on paper

fortyfivedownstairs

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Tuesday 01 September 2009 to Saturday 12 September 2009
Exhibition previously on at fortyfivedownstairs in Melbourne precinct, Victoria, Australia
The delicate and detailed paintings and drawings in Stephen Nova's exhibition Invisible Cities, are built up of many layers, like cities themselves, ‘cranes pulling up other cranes, scaffoldings that embrace other scaffoldings, beams that prop up other beams’, only then to be scraped back, erased and destroyed.

The artworks in this exhibition speak of place and memory and combine various elements of Melbourne, the artist’s current hometown , and his former home in Fremantle.

‘Invisible Cities’ is an amalgam of many elements, memories, signs, language, fears and desires, all floating somewhere in space and time, dream and reality. What is to be and what is yet to come. Assuming forms to only then disappear.

Location

fortyfivedownstairs
45 Flinders Lane
Flinders Lane Precinct
Victoria
Australia
Invisible Cities I, by Stephen Nova, fortyfivedownstairs
Invisible Cities I, 2009
© All rights reserved Stephen Nova 2009 Australia
charcoal, pastel and pencil on arches paper (detail), 1130 x 760mm
Invisible Cities III, by Stephen Nova, fortyfivedownstairs
Invisible Cities III, 2009
© All rights reserved Stephen Nova 2009 Australia
charcoal, pastel and pencil on arches paper (detail), 1130 x 760mm
Invisible Cities IV, by Stephen Nova, fortyfivedownstairs
Invisible Cities IV, 2009
© All rights reserved Stephen Nova 2009 Australia
charcoal, pastel and pencil on arches paper (detail), 1130 x 760mm