Title
52 displacements (nos 25, 31, 37, 43, 50, 52)
1979-1980
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1979-1980
- Media categories
- Painting , Installation
- Materials used
- gouache on canvas (six paintings), text (six framed panels)
- Dimensions
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Installation dimensions variable according to wall size
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a - No. 25 [painting], 34.2 x 42.5 cm, canvas
b - No. 31 [painting], 34 x 42.5 cm, canvas
c - No. 37 [painting], 34.5 x 42.5 cm, canvas
d - No. 43 [painting], 34.5 x 42.8 cm, canvas
e - No. 50 [painting], 34 x 42.2 cm, canvas
f - No. 52 [painting], 34.5 x 42.5 cm, canvas
g - No. 25 [text], 17.7 x 19.9 x 1.3 cm, frame
h - No. 31 [text], 18.3 x 23.2 x 1.3 cm, frame
i - No. 37 [text], 18.3 x 21.9 x 1.3 cm, frame
j - No. 43 [text], 17.7 x 20.6 x 1.3 cm, frame
k - No. 50 [text], 18.1 x 23.1 x 1.3 cm, frame
l - No. 52 [text], 18.1 x 21.8 x 1.3 cm, frame
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1980
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 16.1980.a-l
- Copyright
- © Imants Tillers
- Artist information
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Imants Tillers
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About
The canvas panels from this series were painted after American artist Frederic Waugh's 'Paintings of the sea', which were reproduced in Walter Foster's 'How to draw' series. Imants Tillers copied one painting each week for the period of a year from the reproductions in Foster's book, including their gold frames. Six canvases from the resulting series are displayed here in a grid format.
From 1973 Tillers had begun working with images derived from artworks by other artists as he moved towards an appropriation-based art. His practice was influenced by the prevalence of artwork reproductions and their role in mediating the experience of art. Paradoxically, his work reveals how each reproduction exists as a unique version of the original artwork, with inconsistencies of colour and tone intrinsic to each reproduction.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 7 exhibitions
52 Displacements (of Image, of Time, of Water, of Feeling: One Year's Work), Watters Gallery, East Sydney, 1979–1979
Australian Perspecta 1981, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 May 1981–21 Jun 1981
Three years on: acquisitions 1978-81, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Oct 1981–01 Dec 1981
Popism, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 16 Jun 1982–25 Jul 1982
Imants Tillers: 1978-1988, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Glasgow, 1988–1988
Imants Tillers: 1978-1988, The Orchard Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 1988–1988
Imants Tillers: 1978-1988, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, London, 07 Apr 1988–22 May 1988
Photosynthesis, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Paddington, 18 Nov 1994–20 Dec 1994
Towards Infinity: works by Imants Tillers, Museo de arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Mexico, 24 Sep 1999–01 Jan 2000
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Bibliography
Referenced in 10 publications
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Graham Coulter-Smith, The Postmodern Art of Imants Tillers: Appropriation 'en abyme', 1971-2002, London, 2002, 74 (illus.), 147.
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Wystan Curnow, Imants Tillers and the 'Book of Power', "Part 1: Imants Tillers', Singapore, 1998, 17, 19 (illus.).
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Suzo Gabik, Art and Australia (Vol. 18, No. 4), 'Report from Australia: Part 2", pg.352-55, Sydney, Winter 1981.
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John Kaldor AO (Curator), An Australian Accent, Sydney, 1984, 19, 20 (illus.).
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Charles Merewether, Towards Infinity: works by Imants Tillers, 'Displacement, Diaspora, Dissemination', pg.21-27, Mexico, 1999, 22, 32 (illus.). cat.no. 2, illustration is an installation shot of all 52 canvases
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Bernice Murphy, Three years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981, 'Contemporary Art - Australian, European and American', pg. 37-46, Sydney, 1981, 46 (illus.). cat.no.15
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Bernice Murphy, Australian Perspecta 1981, Sydney, 1981, 134-135, 135 (illus.). cat.no.116
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National Gallery of Victoria [Swanston Street], Popism, 1982. cat.no.23
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Michael Newman, Imants Tillers: works 1978-1988, 'Imants Tillers: the artist as translator', London, 1988, (illus), (colour illus.). no pagination or catalogue numbers; illustration is of No.47
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n-space, 52 Displacements, Sydney, NSW, 1981, (illus.). no pagination
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