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
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 - 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
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
Tony Garifalakis
Patrick Pound
Grant Hill
Josh Foley
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
JOSH FOLEY
Untitled #9, 2015
Acrylic on hardwood
20 x 25.5 cm
Signed verso
SOLD
Glen Clarke
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
GLEN CLARKE
American Crater near Hanoi #9 (corner), 2006
Paper collage
103 x 143 cm,
Signed verso
$25.000
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
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
Nacre, 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)
Michael Vale
Peter Hill
Museum of Doubt - Curator 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
