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Details
- Date
- 1987
- Media category
- Installation
- Materials used
- six paintings (photoemulsion, synthetic polymer paint on canvas); one framed colour transparency; broken fragments of sandstone with photoemulsion; one stepped wooden pyramid
- Dimensions
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Installation dimensions variable according to room size
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a-f - six paintings, 180 x 91 cm, each
g - framed colour transparency, 180 x 91 cm
h - wooden pyramid, 60 x 60 x 60 cm
i-n - 6 piles of sandstone fragments, variable
- Credit
- Purchased 1989
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 58.1989.a-n
- Copyright
- © Julie Rrap. Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
- Artist information
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Julie Rrap
Works in the collection
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About
This installation by Sydney artist Julie Rrap is based on sculptural works by the artists Michelangelo, 'The dying slave' and 'The rebellious slave' and Rodin, 'The shadow (from the gate of hell)', 'Adam', 'The thinker' and 'The prodigal son'. The artist has photographed herself in the replicated pose of each of these six works and beneath each image are what resemble archaeological shards with sections of the original sculptures photographed onto these shards in piles laid out on the floor. The work is a playful dialogue between self and other and the narratives that have situated women within male iconographies of art history.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
The Australian Bicentennial Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 Oct 1987–29 Nov 1987
The Australian Bicentennial Perspecta, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 05 Mar 1988–17 Apr 1988
The Australian Bicentennial Perspecta, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Sep 1988–Oct 1988
The Australian Bicentennial Perspecta, Wurttembergische Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Mar 1989–Apr 1989
Review: works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Mar 1995–04 Jun 1995
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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George Alexander, The Australian Bicentennial Perspecta, 'Julie Brown-Rrap', pg. 8-15, Sydney, 1987, 1, 11, 14.
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Deborah Edwards, Daphne Wallace, Margo Neale, Victoria Lynn and Sandra Byron, Review: works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, "Women Artists in the Contemporary Collection", Victoria Lynn, p13-15, Sydney, 1995, 14, 25.
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Victoria Lynn, Look, 'Identity and the Body', pg. 12-13, Heidelberg, Sep 1994, 3 (colour illus.), 13 (colour illus.). The image appearing on page 3 is in detail.
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