Del Kathryn Barton
Enormous fun, this. There's serious-minded play going on here: gender (especially the feminine), sexuality and the unconscious get quite a workout, and there's heaps going on visually yet it all lands with a kapow, over and over.
Probably the most striking, and definitely my favourite, are the big polymer paint and pen works, including the one that gives the exhibition its name, the five-breasted "of pink planets" (2014), and the spectacular five-panel "sing blood-wings sing" series (2017).
But I also enjoyed the pen drawings, with small sections coloured, which are much more overt in grappling with sex and identity, and the intense 15 minute video piece, "Red", featuring mothers, fathers, death, life, redback spiders, heavy metal imagery, acid trip imagery, and a reminder (as if such were even needed) that Cate Blanchett is just some kind of wonderful.
Akio Makigawa
Quite the contrast to DKB but also excellent, this selection of sculptures is installed across the foyer and stair spaces of all three levels of the gallery. I'm often drawn to this kind of Zen-like stuff (another e.g.: Lee Ufan) and this is really good. Above: "Time keeper" (1987), "Untitled" (1981). Below: "Red", "Circle of Water III" (1999).
Enormous fun, this. There's serious-minded play going on here: gender (especially the feminine), sexuality and the unconscious get quite a workout, and there's heaps going on visually yet it all lands with a kapow, over and over.
Probably the most striking, and definitely my favourite, are the big polymer paint and pen works, including the one that gives the exhibition its name, the five-breasted "of pink planets" (2014), and the spectacular five-panel "sing blood-wings sing" series (2017).
But I also enjoyed the pen drawings, with small sections coloured, which are much more overt in grappling with sex and identity, and the intense 15 minute video piece, "Red", featuring mothers, fathers, death, life, redback spiders, heavy metal imagery, acid trip imagery, and a reminder (as if such were even needed) that Cate Blanchett is just some kind of wonderful.
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Akio Makigawa
Quite the contrast to DKB but also excellent, this selection of sculptures is installed across the foyer and stair spaces of all three levels of the gallery. I'm often drawn to this kind of Zen-like stuff (another e.g.: Lee Ufan) and this is really good. Above: "Time keeper" (1987), "Untitled" (1981). Below: "Red", "Circle of Water III" (1999).
