Title
Backstage/ blue sawhorse
2005
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 2005
- Media categories
- Sculpture , Time-based art
- Materials used
- fluorescent light, metal fixtures and electric energy
- Dimensions
- 94.0 x 72.0 x 72.0 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Susan Armitage 2012. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 94.2012.a-i
- Artist information
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Ivan Navarro
Works in the collection
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About
"The artistic references in this work are the work of Gerrit Rietveld and Dan Flavin. Rietveld uses horizontals, verticals and diagonal lines to create very simple and dynamic furniture. Dan Flavin understood that mass-produced objects can be used as an artistic representation of a very radical proposition: that the artwork itself can be dispensable but the art still exists in the idea of its construction.
Combining these two references, I worked on these objects whose functionality has been removed. The pieces are between dangerous electrified sculptures and radiant images where the basic construction principle is highlighted." Ivan Navarro
http://www.art-almanac.com.au/page.php?page=85 accessed 1/2/12
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Ivan Navarro, Backstage, Greenaway Art Gallery, Kent Town, 27 Feb 2008–23 Mar 2008
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Editor Unknown (Editor), art Almanac, Sydney, Mar 2008, cover (illus.).
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