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Details
- Date
- 1992
- Media category
- Installation
- Materials used
- acrylic glass and hair
- Dimensions
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Installation dimensions variable depending on number of sections installed. Each section 30.0 x 100.0 x 3.5cm.
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1-15 - 15 sections, 30 x 100 x 3 cm, each front sheet/tube of perspex
1-15 - 15 sections, 30 x 100 x 0.5 cm, each backing sheet of perspex
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Young Friends of the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales 1993
- Location
- South Building, lower level 1, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 15.1993
- Copyright
- © Julie Rrap. Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
- Artist information
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Julie Rrap
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About
Julie Rrap, who was based in Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s, returned to Australia in 1992 to exhibit 'Hairline crack' in the 9th Biennale of Sydney. From a distance, the artwork resembles a black line drawn on the wall, evoking, perhaps, the work of Sol LeWitt, Mel Bochner or other artists associated with minimalism. On closer inspection, however, it is quickly discovered that the line is in fact made from an unruly excess of human hair.
The work might be seen to meditate on the tension between the organic and the synthetic or between order and chaos. The perfectly straight, level line reveals itself to be disrupted by something organic and unpredictable; a part of our bodies associated with beauty that is also cut and discarded.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
Strangers in Paradise, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, 05 Nov 1992–04 Dec 1992
Strangers in Paradise, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23 Jul 1993–12 Sep 1993
The boundary rider: 9th Biennale of Sydney, Bond Stores 3/4, Sydney, 15 Dec 1992–14 Mar 1993
Exhibition of 1993 Biennale works, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, 21 May 1993–20 Jun 1993
Great gifts, great patrons, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Aug 1994–19 Oct 1994
Julie Rrap: body double, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, 30 Aug 2007–28 Jan 2008
20th-Century galleries, lower level 1 (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 9 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Great gifts, great patrons: an exhibition celebrating private patronage of the Gallery, Sydney, 1994. no catalogue numbers
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Anthony Bond, Contemporary: Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Collection, 'Imagining the body', pg.246-289, Sydney, 2006, 286, 287 (colour illus.).
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Anthony Bond and Victoria Lynn, AGNSW Collections, 'Contemporary Practice - Here, There, Everywhere ...', pg. 229-285, Sydney, 1994, 244 (colour illus.).
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Anthony Bond OAM and Yvonne Kennedy, The boundary rider: 9th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, 1992, 202, 203 (colour illus.).
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Victoria Lynn, Art and Australia (Vol. 31, No. 2), 'Minimalism and its shadows: girding the grid', pg. 234-243, Sydney, Summer 1994, 234-235 (colour illus., detail), 240, 243.
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Victoria Lynn, Look, 'Identity and the Body', pg. 12-13, Heidelberg, Sep 1994, 13.
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Julie Rrap, Strangers in Paradise - Contemporary Australian Art to Korea, 'Promiscuity and Statistics', pg.66-69, Seoul, 1992, 68 (colour illus.), 95, 101. cat.no. 22
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Wayne Tunnicliffe, Look, 'Past/Present/Future: the importance of collecting contemporary work and Contempo's contribution', pg.14-15, Sydney, Apr 2003, 15 (colour illus.). illustration is a detail
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Judith White, art lovers: the story of the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales 1953-2013, 'Chapter 5: Be part of the art 1988-2000', pp. 111-138, Sydney, 2013, 115, 232 (colour illus.).
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