George Barker
(Australia 22 Oct 1942– )
- Title
- Kandinsky's table
- Place of origin
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Stanmore →
Sydney →
New South Wales →
Australia
- Year
- 1978
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour screenprint on white BFK Rives paper
- Edition
- 4/10
- Dimensions
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63.4 x 57.2cm image; 79.9 x 59.8cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r., pencil "Barker 1978".
- Credit
- Purchased 1978
- Accession number
- 218.1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Tables can be thought of as concrete objects, or as abstract lists.
'Kandinsky's table' conflates the two meanings of the word; combining the drawn table with a visual "list" (or table) of colours which Kandinsky theorised as represented by geometric forms.
These colours - portrayed in the upper section as though on an artist's palette - are mapped (or listed) to their respective solid forms in the lower section by the small graph paper images above them. There is a deliberate visual ambiguity between the physical location of the crosses in the graphs and the colours used to depict them.
Artist's statement, 2006
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2006
- Bibliography (1)
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Anne Ryan (Australia) (Curator), Sydney prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, Sydney, 2006. List of works.
- Exhibition history (4)
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Contemporary Australian Drawings and Prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Apr 1980–01 Jun 1980.
Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, S.H. Ervin Gallery, 19 Aug 2006–24 Sep 2006.
Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, 09 Feb 2007–11 Mar 2007.
Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, Tamworth City Gallery, 24 Mar 2007–29 Apr 2007.
