Thingshow and Still Water at Fontanelle Gallery

Opening 17^th March, 6pm

17/3 till 12/4

The first exhibition of the year for Fontanelle is about the lives of objects, and the thresholds and tensions that they produce. Titled ‘Thingshow’, it seeks to explore the way that things interact and are transformed. Art writer Gertrude Stein once said that ‘Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air’, a sentiment that foregrounds a certain understanding of art objects and of things. When you look at art objects as not just the object, but as the things they sit on and as the air around them, they take on different kind of life.

For the exhibition, curator Ben Leslie has brought together a group of artists from around Australia who practice within the field of things, including Sarah CrowEST, Brooke Babington, Carla Liesch, Sam Songailo, Emily Taylor, Talitha Kennedy and Henry Jock Walker. The objects presented don’t just sit pretty, they operate within the context of the space around them, and in relation to each other; this is the pretty air that Stein was talking about.

Alongside ‘Thingshow’, Canadian glass artist Tyler Rock will be showing in the back gallery. The interactive installation responds to the viewer as they move around the gallery space.

Image: Sarah CrowEST, 'Things (studio), 2013 courtesy of Fontanelle Gallery

TEXT: Copyright Adele Sliuzas, originally published on the Thousands http://thethousands.com.au/adelaide/look/thingshow-and-still-water