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Details
- Date
- 1993
- Media category
- Mixed media painting
- Materials used
- oil and ink on board, transparent synthetic polymer resin
- Dimensions
- 59.0 x 87.0 x 10.5 cm
- Credit
- Rudy Komon Memorial Fund 2003
- Location
- 20th-century galleries (lower level 1)
- Accession number
- 75.2003
- Copyright
- © Ian Burn Estate
- Artist information
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Ian Burn
Works in the collection
- Artist information
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P Rea
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About
'Value added' landscape no. 11 is one of a series of ''Value added' landscape' paintings created by the late conceptual artist Ian Burn from 1992-93. It is a significant work that synthesises Burn's thinking on the tradition of Australian landscape painting, representation, language, art-making and its reception.
The painting incorporated into 'Value added' landscape no. 11 is an amateur landscape collected from a market or junk shop which the artist has then overlaid with text on Perspex. Burn explained that this phrase 'at alternate moments, describes the picture, addresses the viewer and reflects on itself as text'. The effect of mirroring and reflection is an important aspect of Burn's work from the late 1960s onwards which implicates the viewer and the location of the artwork as essential to how we 'read' it.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Collaborations, Sutton Gallery, Fitzroy, 1993–1993
Artists think: the late works of Ian Burn, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, 1996–1996
Artists think: the late works of Ian Burn, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 1996–1996
Artists think: the late works of Ian Burn, Monash University Gallery, Clayton, 07 Jul 1996–18 Aug 1996
Unscripted, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 May 2005–24 Jul 2005
20th-Century galleries Rehang (Lower Level 1), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 6 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 2003 [for the year ended 30 June 2003], 'Year in review', pg.14-35, Sydney, 2003, 18.
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Natasha Bullock, Contemporary: Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Collection, 'Landscape, mapping, nature', pg.290-331, Sydney, 2006, 292, 300, 301 (colour illus.).
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Ian Burn, Collaborations, "Notes on 'value added' landscapes", 1993.
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Denise Mimmocchi, Australian Symbolism: the art of dreams, ‘The sunny south: the landscape as Aesthetic ideal’, pg.81-90, Sydney, 2012, 82.
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Ann Stephen, Artists think: the late works of Ian Burn, Melbourne, 1996, 98 (colour illus.).
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Ann Stephen, Australian Journal of Art 9vol. Xii, "'Value Added' Landscapes, 1993-93", 1994-1995.
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