back is front
Anna Varendorff, back is front frame 6, 2017, brass and silver solder, 150 x 200mm.
Photo: Anna Varendorff |
Map reference number: 04
Fort Delta
Shop 59, Capitol Arcade (Basement Lvl) 113 Swanston St Melbourne (enter via Howey Pl) 3 August – 2 September
Wed–Fri 12–6pm, Sat 12–4pm Opening: Thu 31 August, 5–6pm
Artist/s: Anna Varendorff
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This project presents a series of canvas-less stretcher frames made from brass. Material and formal emphasis is given to these supporting structures, that are rarely seen and that are most often constructed for strength and utility before aesthetic consideration. The ingenuity for function that is a hallmark of the stretcher frames construction is brought to the gallery walls, and the use of brass in the construction results in forms that can no longer be used as their shape implies, and are now purely sculptural. For the process, a jewellers skills are appropriated, a jewellers consideration borrowed to fabricate a support form in metal. The canvas and its content are removed, its domination taken away, a system interrupted.
a. Anna Varendorff, back is front frame 6, 2017, brass and silver solder, 150 x 200mm. Photo credit: Anna Varendorff
About the Artist
Anna Varendorff works with specific consideration of site, making reference to the scales, details and uses of the space within her installations in order for the audience to find opportunities to interact with the work or to share in perceptual encounters. This employment of site as a discrete material is an extrapolation of her practice as an artist jeweller: an acknowledgement that the orchestration of the object and site are always re-configured by the subjective contributions of the audience, to result in infinitely different encounters. Anna Varendorff has completed an MFA at Monash University, and has exhibited at ACCA as part of NEW16, at TCB, Bus Projects, Craft Victoria, c3 Contemporary Art Space, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Anna Pappas Gallery and others.
Anna Varendorff works with specific consideration of site, making reference to the scales, details and uses of the space within her installations in order for the audience to find opportunities to interact with the work or to share in perceptual encounters. This employment of site as a discrete material is an extrapolation of her practice as an artist jeweller: an acknowledgement that the orchestration of the object and site are always re-configured by the subjective contributions of the audience, to result in infinitely different encounters. Anna Varendorff has completed an MFA at Monash University, and has exhibited at ACCA as part of NEW16, at TCB, Bus Projects, Craft Victoria, c3 Contemporary Art Space, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Anna Pappas Gallery and others.
