The Museum of Doubt

Glen Clarke, Josh Foley, Tony Garifalakis, Grant Hill, Peter Hill, Patrick Pound, Michael Vale, Louise Weaver, Robert Zhao - Institute of Critical Zoologists

The Museum of Doubt Installation

The Museum of Doubt

Curated by Dr Peter Hill

Opening Wednesday 8 June 5.30pm

by mystery VIP & a music performance by Xydep Xydahlia

8 June – 3 July 2016

Is there a God? Does my bum look big in this? Why doesn’t my house cost only the materials used to build it? Is Video Art dead? When Peter Hill curated his first Museum of Doubt exhibition at Zeppelin Projects in Brunswick, these were some of the questions his artist friends wrote on one wall of the gallery. Those artists included Jon Cattapan, Phil Edwards, Julian Goddard, Ceri Hahn, and Peter Ellis. Others, who are also in this second outing of The Museum of Doubt, include Louise Weaver, Patrick Pound, Josh Foley and Michael Vale. How do we know what is true or false in any given visual statement? How willing are we to suspend our disbelief? And does that even matter if the artworks can be enjoyed for their own formal beauty, angst, or inquisitiveness?

“I have a great sympathy with both doubt and faith as beacons for navigating this sublime universe,” says Peter Hill. “Remembering that the sublime in art, as in life and death, hovers between beauty and terror. Doubt and faith are both on the same side of the same coin – a coin that has “certainty” on the reverse. Most of the problems we face today are caused by individuals and nations being “certain” that they have the answer. Don’t listen to them. Be skeptical. The truth can be approached, as Karl Popper, the great philosopher of science tells us, but it can rarely be found. It can only be falsified.”

So bring your doubt and your faith to this Wunderkammer of Super Fictions and enjoy the lightness, the darkness, and the strangeness in the works of: Glen Clarke, Josh Foley, Tony Garifalakis, Grant Hill, Peter Hill, Patrick Pound, Michael Vale, Louise Weaver and Robert Zhao.

 

Available works….

 

Robert Zhao – Institute of the Critical Zoologist

ROBERT ZHAO A Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the World (first published in 1973), 2013 Published by: The Institute of Critical Zoologists, Tokyo, Japan. Edition of 50. For inquiries, please contact Despard Gallery
ROBERT ZHAO A Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the World (first published in 1973), 2013 Published by: The Institute of Critical Zoologists, Tokyo, Japan. Edition of 50. For inquiries, please contact Despard Gallery
ROBERT ZHAO - INSTITUTE OF CRITICAL ZOOLOGISTS Last Cat on Christmas Island (edition 4/5), 2015 Digital print on metal frame 60 x 40 cm Signed verso $3000
ROBERT ZHAO A Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the World (first published in 1973), 2013 Published by: The Institute of Critical Zoologists, Tokyo, Japan. Edition of 50 For inquiries, please contact Despard Gallery

Tony Garifalakis

Left: TONY GARIFALAKIS, Untitled #5 from the Mob Rule (Warlords) series, 2014 Centre: TONY GARIFALAKIS, Untitled #10 from the Mob Rule (Warlords) series, 2014 Right: TONY GARIFALAKIS, Untitled #11 from the Mob Rule (Warlords) series, 2014 Enamel on C type prints, 60 x 40cm (unframed) each, unique editions of 2, courtesy the artist, Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne and Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide

Patrick Pound

PATRICK POUND Ethnic Roles, 2016 Giclee print 46 x 195 cm Edition of 10 + 2 AP $3750

PATRICK POUND Studio Nazies, 2016 Giclee print 46 x 195 cm Edition of 10 + 2 AP $3750

 

Grant Hill

Grant-Hill_Stringy-Bark-Street_2014 - web

Josh Foley

JOSH FOLEY Untitled #9, 2015 Acrylic on hardwood 20 x 25.5 cm Signed verso SOLD
JOSH FOLEY Underground, 2016 Oil and acrylic on linen 168 x 183 cm Signed verso $14.500
JOSH FOLEY Self-portrait, 2015 Acrylic on hardwood 50 x 45 cm Signed LR $3,950

Glen Clarke

GLEN CLARKE Are you insane man that is suicide to go in there 2014 Paper collage 102h x 102w x 6d cm Signed verso $16.500
GLEN CLARKE American Crater near Hanoi #9 (corner), 2006 Paper collage 103 x 143 cm, Signed verso $25.000
GLEN CLARKE Silo 3Peace Keeper, (winner of the 2015 Hazelhurst Work On Paper Prize), 2015, folded US dollars and Iraqi dinars, cotton thread, 85 x 60 x 23 cm $15,000

Louise Weaver

LOUISE WEAVER Inside With Stays, 2016 Synthetic polymer emulsion on linen 152 x 106 cm Signed verso $15.500 (photo: Mark Ashkanasy)
LOUISE WEAVER Plume, 2009 Hand crocheted wool over Japanese gourd vessel, wood, foam, papier-mâché, synthetic polymer paint; air-dried clay, plastic, linen, glitter. 63 x 43 x 40 cm plus 95 x 70 x 60 cm (display) Signed back $14,300.00 (photo: Mark Ashkanasy)
LOUISE WEAVER Nacre, 2016 Synthetic polymer emulsion on linen 152 x 106 cm Signed verso $15.500 (photo: Mark Ashkanasy)

Michael Vale

Peter Hill

PETER HILL Left: The Art Fair Murders (edition of 20), 2016 Centre: Plato’s Cave (edition of 100), 2015 Right: Superfiction Business Card (edition of 20), 2016 Silkscreen print on paper 85 x 105.5 cm each (framed) $300 (center, unframed) | $1200 (left +right, unframed)
PETER HILL Centre: Plato’s Cave (edition of 100), 2015, Silkscreen print on paper 85 x 105.5 cm (framed), $300
Museum of Doubt - Curator Peter Hill