Peter Adsett
Room with a View
@Melbourne Art Fair, 13-17 August 2014
IMG X Tom Teutenberg
Peter Adsett
Room with a View
@Melbourne Art Fair, 13-17 August 2014
IMG X Tom Teutenberg
Peter Adsett
Room with a View
@Melbourne Art Fair, 13-17 August 2014
IMG X Tom Teutenberg
Peter Adsett
Room with a View
@Melbourne Art Fair, 13-17 August 2014
IMG X Tom Teutenberg
Peter Adsett
Room with a View
@Melbourne Art Fair, 13-17 August 2014
IMG X Tom Teutenberg
Peter Adsett
Room with a View
@Melbourne Art Fair, 13-17 August 2014
IMG X Tom Teutenberg
Peter Adsett
Room with a View
@Melbourne Art Fair, 13-17 August 2014
IMG X Tom Teutenberg
Peter Adsett
Room with a View
@Melbourne Art Fair, 13-17 August 2014
IMG X Tom Teutenberg
Peter Adsett
Room with a View
@Melbourne Art Fair, 13-17 August 2014
IMG X Tom Teutenberg
Peter Adsett
Room with a View
@Melbourne Art Fair, 13-17 August 2014
IMG X Tom Teutenberg
Peter Adsett
Room with a View
@Melbourne Art Fair, 13-17 August 2014
IMG X Tom Teutenberg
Peter Adsett
Room with a View
@Melbourne Art Fair, 13-17 August 2014
IMG X Tom Teutenberg
Painting number 1
2013
Gesso, acrylic paint, linen, stretcher frame
106.5 x 91.5 x 2.2cm
Private Collection, Sydney
Painting number 2
2013
Gesso, acrylic paint, paint skin, torn paper, rice paper glue, linen, stretcher frame
106.5 x 91.5 x 2.2cm
Painting number 3
2013
Gesso, acrylic paint, linen, stretcher frame
106.5 x 91.5 x 2.2cm
Private Collection, Sydney
Painting number 4
2013
Gesso, acrylic paint, torn paper, masking tape, rice paper glue, linen, stretcher frame
106.5 x 91.5 x 2.2cm
Private Collection, New Zealand
Painting number 5
2014
Gesso, acrylic paint, torn paper, masking tape, rice paper glue, linen, stretcher frame
106.5 x 91.5 x 2.2cm
Private Collection, Melbourne
Painting number 7
2014
Paint skin, torn paper, white paper, paste board, gesso, rice paper glue, linen, stretcher frame
56.7 x 69.7 x 2.2cm
Painting number 8
2014
Gesso, acrylic paint, top coat, torn paper, linen, stretcher frame
69.7 x 56.7 x 2.2cm
Private Collection, Sydney
Peter Adsett, Room with a View, Melbourne Art Fair, 13-17 August 2014
Peter Adsett in conjunction with PAULNACHE, Gisborne (NZ) presents…
PETER ADSETT
ROOM WITH A VIEW
PAULNACHE, Stand E125, Ground floor
Melbourne Art Fair, 13 - 17 August, 2014, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Melbourne, Australia
Shouldn’t there be more artists today who could make us look at painting in terms of its co-operation with the surrounding architecture?
The view offered in this room is not the contemplative distance that we require when we behold figurative work. These abstract paintings are without the perspectival trajectories that focus the eye on central point. And they don’t ‘stay’ inside their frames. Instead, the elements of the painting closely interact with the wall – and in fact, with all the architectural elements.
The MAF gallery walls have been treated in such a way as to make this idea inescapable. Torn wallpaper speaks to collage elements in the work, while holes and raw linen acknowledge the wall behind. Black paint does what it has to in working against shadow and depth. Layers of material peel away to expose undersides and reverses. All the works, walls included, are in an ongoing process of exposure.
Peter Adsett has challenged our perception in confusing the ground of painting. Wall, linen, paper and paint all compete to be identified as ground or figure. In the end we conclude that the only ground is the one where we stand. So the perspective we attain is actually one we are inside.
Mary Alice Lee
ROOM WITH A VIEW: A CONVERSATION BETWEEN ARTIST PETER ADSETT, ARCHITECT SAM KEBBELL AND ART HISTORIAN MARY ALICE LEE
SATURDAY 16 AUGUST 11AM | ART, TALKS AND WALKS
Melbourne Art Fair ticket holders.
In 2009, NZ-born, Melbourne based painter Peter Adsett collaborated with NZ architect Sam Kebbell to build ‘Humbug’ studio/house, creating a “dialogue between painting and architecture.” This is the direction currently being explored in Adsett’s site specific installation and works exhibited at the Fair.
Royal Exhibition Building, Stand E125
ARTIST STUDIO AND PRIVATE COLLECTION TOUR: PAULNACHE PRESENTS PETER ADSETT'S HUMBUG
SUNDAY 17 AUGUST | 9:30AM -12:30PM
Collector Pass holders only. Login to RSVP.
Join this private collection and artist studio tour of Humbug House, a collaboration between Peter Adsett (artist), Sam Kebbell (Kebbell Daish Architects) and Mary Alice Lee (art historian/ writer), and discover how architecture and painting create a dialogue to something extraordinary.
Read Matt Ward's review in Australian Design Review
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