Matthys Gerber
Dutch-born Australian painter Matthys Gerber has been a fixture of the notoriously quarrelsome Sydney contemporary art scene for roughly three decades. Consistently provocative and protean in terms of style and content, his work has been routinely dismissed by conservative commentators as cynical...
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| description | Dutch-born Australian painter Matthys Gerber has been a fixture of the notoriously quarrelsome Sydney contemporary
art scene for roughly three decades. Consistently provocative and protean in terms of style and content, his work has
been routinely dismissed by conservative commentators as cynical dilettantism or careerist one-upmanship. For Gerber’s
first major survey, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia senior curator Natasha Bullock countered this perception by
framing the artist’s output as a metacritique of painting in the Australian context, claiming that his work “has always
carved a singular path through the ‘idea’ of painting.” The thirty-five works presented here as an evenly representative,
if not comprehensive, jumble of distinct phases portrayed an artist constantly probing the limits and conditions of his
own subjectivity and practice. |
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| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
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| language | English |
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| publishDate | 2016 |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-807902021-01-05T04:12:02Z Matthys Gerber Messham-Muir, Kit Arts & Humanities Art Dutch-born Australian painter Matthys Gerber has been a fixture of the notoriously quarrelsome Sydney contemporary art scene for roughly three decades. Consistently provocative and protean in terms of style and content, his work has been routinely dismissed by conservative commentators as cynical dilettantism or careerist one-upmanship. For Gerber’s first major survey, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia senior curator Natasha Bullock countered this perception by framing the artist’s output as a metacritique of painting in the Australian context, claiming that his work “has always carved a singular path through the ‘idea’ of painting.” The thirty-five works presented here as an evenly representative, if not comprehensive, jumble of distinct phases portrayed an artist constantly probing the limits and conditions of his own subjectivity and practice. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80790 English https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201601/matthys-gerber-56761 ARTFORUM restricted |
| spellingShingle | Arts & Humanities Art Messham-Muir, Kit Matthys Gerber |
| title | Matthys Gerber |
| title_full | Matthys Gerber |
| title_fullStr | Matthys Gerber |
| title_full_unstemmed | Matthys Gerber |
| title_short | Matthys Gerber |
| title_sort | matthys gerber |
| topic | Arts & Humanities Art |
| url | https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201601/matthys-gerber-56761 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80790 |