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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Mundi Mundi plain
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- 2007
- Media categories
- Time-based art , Installation
- Materials used
- digital tape (DVCProHD) shown as dual channel digital video, colour, silent
- Edition
- 2/4
- Dimensions
- duration: 00:03:56 min channel 1, 00:04:42 min channel 2, aspect ratio: 16:9, display dimensions variable
- Signature & date
Signed l.c. certificate of authenticity and on DVD masters, ink "Shaun Gladwell". Not dated.
- Credit
- John Kaldor Family Collection
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- L2011.60
- Copyright
- © Shaun Gladwell. Photo: Josh Raymond
- Artist information
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Shaun Gladwell
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About
Shaun Gladwell’s video works are predominantly concerned with movement, usually in urban spaces. More recently, however, he has extended his practice into a consideration of landscape and place while retaining his core interest in the movement of bodies through space. A spellbinding sense of quietude permeates his work.
‘Approach to Mundi Mundi’ is part of the ‘MADDESTMAXIMVS’ series – an ongoing body of work that has been presented in various arrangements, including at the 2009 Venice Biennale. In ‘Approach to Mundi Mundi’ a faceless motorbike rider, clad in black leather, travels along the white lines of a highway descending into a barren Australian desert. The composition is radically divided by an unbroken horizon line and vertically segmented by the rider’s upright Christ-like position. Poised on the bike with outstretched arms, he appears to embrace the land before him, his stillness demonstrating a heightened sense of bodily awareness and concentration. Paradoxically moving yet also still, this work figuratively ‘swallows’ time, presenting a type of extended moment.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Shaun Gladwell: MADDESTMAXIMVS, Sherman Galleries, Paddington, 30 Nov 2007–22 Dec 2007
Motion, Bega Valley Regional Gallery, Bega, 17 Jul 2015–22 Aug 2015
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Bibliography
Referenced in 13 publications
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Steven Ball and Catherine Elwes, Figuring landscapes: artists' moving image from Australia and the U.K, 2007, cover (colour illus., video still), 38 (colour illus., video still).
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Natasha Bullock, John Kaldor family collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Shaun Gladwell', pg. 288-89, Sydney, 2011, 288, 289 (colour illus., video still).
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Rex Butler., Shaun Gladwell, 'The narcissistic image', 2008.
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Edmund Capon, Apollo: the international art magazine, 'Lay of the land', pg. 36-42, London, Jul 2013-Aug 2013, 42 (colour illus., video still). Feature: Australian landscape art
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Blair French, Shaun Gladwell: videowork, 2007, 105 (colour illus., video still).
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Blair French, Australia: 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, 'Maddestmaximvs – planets and stars sequence 2009', pg. 4-5, 2009, (colour illus., video still).
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Stephen Hepworth, Shaun Gladwell: perpetual 360° sessions, 'Extracts from the diary of a wanderer', pg. 6-13, Heerlen, 2011, 10, 68-69 (colour illus., video still).
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Anneke Jaspers, Look, 'Shaun Gladwell', pg. 13, Sydney, Sep 2012, 13.
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John Kelly, Art Monthly Australia, 'The beauty of distance', pg. 10-13, Canberra, Jul 2009, 10-13.
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Bruce Millan, The Art Newspaper, 'Australia takes images of outback and Mad Max to Venice', pg. 46, Jun 2009, 46.
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Sherman Galleries, Shaun Gladwell: Maddest Maximvs, 2007, 3 (colour illus., video still).
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Daniel Thomas, Australia, 'Elizabethan post-colonial 1950-2013', pg. 226-288, London, 2013, 2-3 (colour illus., video still), 280, 281 (colour illus., video still). cat.no. 197
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Wayne Tunnicliffe, Look, 'Kaldor and contemporary', pg. 26-29, Sydney, Apr 2011, 29.
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