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Details
- Date
- 1987-1988
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- type C photograph on marine ply
- Dimensions
- 240.0 x 180.0 cm
- Signature & date
Signed and dated c.verso, black felt tip "Bill Henson 1987/88".
- Credit
- Rudy Komon Memorial Fund 1990
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 193.1990
- Copyright
- © Bill Henson. Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
- Artist information
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Bill Henson
Works in the collection
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About
In the late 1980s Henson began to explore a new way of presenting his photographs. Instead of creating one work composed of sequential images, he 'internalised' these multiple elements into one picture. In 1987 he produced his first large-scale 'cut-screen', using the subject matter of the metropolis with its nightlife and violence, its cold neons and implicit despair. The beauty of these images is disrupted when they are cut; they are then pinned and taped onto plywood screens. Most of the works are composed of a life-size central image surrounded by fragments of other photographs, often taken at different times or in different locations.
extract from Isobel Crombie, first published Bill Henson, 46th Biennale of Venice, Australian Exhibitions Touring Agency Ltd, Melbourne 1995, republished Bill Henson: Mnemosyne, Scalo, Zurich/AGNSW, Sydney 2005 p 383
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Bill Henson. Images from 'Untitled 1987/88', Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Paddington, 21 Mar 1990–17 Apr 1990
Strangers in Paradise, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, 05 Nov 1992–04 Dec 1992
Strangers in Paradise, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23 Jul 1993–12 Sep 1993
From the Street - Photographs From the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Apr 1996–14 Jul 1996
Bill Henson, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Jan 2005–03 Apr 2005
Bill Henson, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 23 Apr 2005–10 Jul 2005
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Judy Annear, From the street: photographs from the collection, Sydney, 1996. no catalogue numbers
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Bill Henson and Judy Annear, Mnemosyne, Sydney, 2005, 351 (colour illus.).
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Victoria Lynn, Strangers in Paradise - Contemporary Australian Art to Korea, 'Dark Mirrors. The Photographs of Bill Henson', pg. 38-41, Seoul, 1992. cat.no. 9
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