An impressive exhibition, each of its four rooms opening to and in conversation with the others and within themselves.
The major piece, taking up most of the large hall, is "The waterfall", an installation that the ACCA attendant who happened to be doing a guided tour while I was there aptly called a kind of storyboard, a mirror-layered imagined house furnished with images from the artist's own life and art, other images (including several of forced affection) and a replica of Freud's chair, in which the personal, the cinematic and the abject are all in free play. There's a lot to it and I spent a lot of time with it; it's a response to Duchamp's last work, the mysterious, viewed-through-a-keyhole assemblage "Etant Donnés".
The corner room houses a single, seemingly self contained bronze flower growing out of the centre of the darkened room's floor, soundtracked by an ambientish instrumental track that occasionally erupts into bosque-y cacophony - "Ma femme au chat ouvert" - while the other two rooms lay out more pieces that are thematically and figuratively of a piece with others elsewhere. It's all very interesting - struck a chord with me.
The major piece, taking up most of the large hall, is "The waterfall", an installation that the ACCA attendant who happened to be doing a guided tour while I was there aptly called a kind of storyboard, a mirror-layered imagined house furnished with images from the artist's own life and art, other images (including several of forced affection) and a replica of Freud's chair, in which the personal, the cinematic and the abject are all in free play. There's a lot to it and I spent a lot of time with it; it's a response to Duchamp's last work, the mysterious, viewed-through-a-keyhole assemblage "Etant Donnés".
The corner room houses a single, seemingly self contained bronze flower growing out of the centre of the darkened room's floor, soundtracked by an ambientish instrumental track that occasionally erupts into bosque-y cacophony - "Ma femme au chat ouvert" - while the other two rooms lay out more pieces that are thematically and figuratively of a piece with others elsewhere. It's all very interesting - struck a chord with me.
