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Details
- Dates
- 1996
2019 - Media categories
- Sculpture , Installation
- Materials used
- found glass bottles
- Dimensions
- 250.0 x 50.0 cm (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Donated by the artist in memory of Henry Krum through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program 2019
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 132.2019.1-82
- Copyright
- © Lauren Berkowitz
- Artist information
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Lauren Berkowitz
Works in the collection
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About
Like many of Lauren Berkowitz's works from the mid-1990s, 'Green bottle corner cluster' engages with the language of minimal sculpture but introduces a feminine edge to its classically cool, geometric language. Berkowitz was influenced by the legacy of American post-minimal sculptor Eva Hesse, who used the repetition of empty vessels and transparent membranes to invoke bodily forms and sensations. Berkowitz generates a similar tension between material and affect in 'Green bottle corner cluster', by investing the hard, industrial glass bottles with a tactile, vulnerable quality. They appear to multiply like cells from a seam in the gallery walls, suggesting a supple, fleshy growth or the comfort of a cocoon.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Lauren Berkowitz: Green room, Pendulum Gallery, , 1996 -
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Anna Clabburn., The Australian family: images and essays, 'Resourceful by necessity', Carlton North, 1998, 22 (colour illus.).
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Bruce James., Sydney Morning Herald, 'Galleries', Sydney, 02 Aug 1996, 14.
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Charles Merewether., Lauren Berkowitz, 'Anxieties of revelation', Sydney, 2001, 38 (colour illus.).
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Dr Alana O'Brien., Three degrees of change, 'Manna', Bundoora, 2009, 31 (colour illus.).
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