JANET LAURENCE
GREENHOUSE
28 June – 10 August 2007
The exhibition
JANET LAURENCE
GREENHOUSE
28 June – 10 August 2007
bildkultur | galerie Stuttgart
Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Australian Embassy Berlin
„Janet Laurence, artist / alchemist / architect,
constructs, initiates, and transforms“
Peter Emmett
Janet Laurence is one of the most important Australian artists today, having
presented numerous exhibitions, installations and projects in Australia,
Japan and other countries in the Pacific. The exhibition in Stuttgart will
be the first presentation of her work in Germany.
The works by Janet Laurence
oscillate between high scientific precision and great lightness. Air, water,
fire, earth – straw, lead, plant seeds – pigments, and crystals
are central elements of her artistic expression. For over two decades she
has meticulously explored nature's diversity, documenting human
interference and interaction with its complexity. Her art strongly evokes
a world in constant change and unrelentingly catalogs the incurred losses.
Janet Laurence often works with text, both in photographs applied to aluminum,
glass and acrylic in thin layers or in room-sized installations filled
with light, veil-like, floating sails or massive beams anchored in the
toxic bottom of a pond. These texts are both descriptive and provoking;
lists of chemical elements, names of plants and minerals, scientific and
medicinal terms embedded in the works' surface constitute a visual
language that also induces associations in the viewer.
The exhibition opening
Wednesday, 27th of June 2007 at 7 pm
bildkultur | galerie, Markelstr. 19, 70193 Stuttgart
Introduction
Philippa Cocks
Australian Embassy Berlin
Dr. Matthias Bullinger
bildkultur Stuttgart
The artist will be present at the opening.
The exhibition is on view
from 28 Juni – 10 August 2007
Gallery hours
Monday and Wednesday 4 pm – 7 pm
and by appointment
Ein Beitrag zum Fotosommer Stuttgart 2007
Janet Laurence is represented by Sherman Galleries, Sydney and
Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Images: Courtesy the artist and Sherman Galleries, Sydney /
Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
