Three Trees
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Magdalena Bors 2006 Australia
Pigment Print on Rag, 50 cm x 68 cm
Unearthly Garden
Colour Factory Gallery
Friday 02 December 2011 to Saturday 28 January 2012
Opening Thursday 01 December 2011 6-8pm
Exhibition
previously on
at
Colour Factory Gallery
in
Fitzroy-Collingwood precinct,
Victoria,
Australia
The garden is wilderness tended. Forces of culture also shape it. These forces are always in tension. The perfect garden imagined exists at a juncture when these tensions are at an optimum. A specimen matured bearing perfect fruit. Flowers in full bloom. Plants defined as weeds are absent, the scene basking either in warm sunlight or light shade. Ideal.
The imagined garden is elusive. It can only occur in time and space for just a moment, if ever. Often the garden remains the husk of an idea.
The photographs in this exhibition detail the cultural imperatives behind the imagined garden and the impossible quest to challenge unpredictable and uncontrollable aspects of environment and of life. To capture an ideal.
Carolyn Dew, 2011
Group exhibition curated by Carolyn Dew
Please note that the Colour Factory Gallery will close from Friday December 23, 2011 until January 9, 2012
Garden Chinese Restaurant
© All rights reserved Lee Grant 2008 Australia
Pigment Print, 60 cm x 60 cm
© All rights reserved Lee Grant 2008 Australia
Pigment Print, 60 cm x 60 cm
Memorial Garden I
© All rights reserved Carolyn Dew 2011 Australia
Type C Print, 90 cm x 72 cm
© All rights reserved Carolyn Dew 2011 Australia
Type C Print, 90 cm x 72 cm
