Title
Inferno, Canto XIII: The forest of the suicides, from the series Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy
1988
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1988
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- Polaroid photograph
- Dimensions
- 52.4 x 60.9 cm sight; 79.0 x 84.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1989
- Location
- South Building, lower level 1, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 187.1989
- Copyright
- © Fiona Hall
- Artist information
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Fiona Hall
Works in the collection
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About
This photograph from the late 1980s is from a series of twelve Polaroid photographs relating directly to Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. Each work is a carefully constructed scene illustrating a particular canto. Technically the artist has made the most of the cumbersome 20 x 40 inch Polaroid camera, using it to render exquisite detail and to capture subtle colour. She cuts and moulds aluminium soft-drink cans to form menacing vegetation, human figures, creatures from beyond the grave, on the journey through Hell and Purgatory to Paradise. Hall photographs them amongst found objects set against backgrounds which she has painted.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Selected recent acquisitions, 1989, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 05 Sep 1989–17 Dec 1989
Contemporary Colour Photographs from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Jul 1991–22 Sep 1991
Photographs from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Mar 1993–09 May 1993
Review: works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Mar 1995–04 Jun 1995
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Deborah Edwards, Daphne Wallace, Margo Neale, Victoria Lynn and Sandra Byron, Review: works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Women Artists in the Contemporary Collection, Sydney, 1995, 15, 21.
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Helen Ennis, Photography and Australia, London, 2007, 120 (illus.). fig.66
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Julie Ewington, Fiona Hall, 'Chaos, knowledge and order', pg.52-99, Annandale, 2005, 85, 89, 91 (colour illus.).
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