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Relief No. 20 1993

dc.contributor.other Nodrum, Charles en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T15:46:16Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T15:46:16Z
dc.date.issued 2007 en_US
dc.description.abstract The history of relief constructions and the notion of ‘The concrete in Art’ go back to the beginning of the 20th Century and evidence the ongoing concerns and needs of artists to produce discrete palpable objects capable of transcending time, place and meaning. It is a tradition which has grown and continues to influence painters world wide particularly in England, France, Holland, Switzerland and Germany and sits more broadly within the field of Geometric Abstraction. The relief construction, Relief No: 20, which formed part of a larger research output, demonstrated the logical visual outcomes of applying Van Deosberg’s theories of 1930 in conjunction with historical developments in notions of ‘The concrete’ as occurred in France, Switzerland, Holland and England from 1930 to the early 1990’s. It questioned the viability and continuing currency of such ‘Utopian’ notions of ‘The Concrete’ and the universality of neutral and numerically generated geometric forms especially within the growing developments of Post Modernism. The work was innovative and added to new knowledge in so far as it demonstrated the restrictions and limitations of adhering to a strict/pure definition of the concrete. On the other hand it demonstrated that the notion of the concrete had, and continues to provide, a viable process and framework that allows artists to produce unique work whilst continuing to engage with contemporary art practice. Relief Number: 20 has been exhibited in Andrew Christofides, The Beatty Gallery, Sydney, 1995, and Abstraction 6, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, 2007. Three more pieces from the same research project are currently being exhibited in ‘Andrew Christofides’, Charles Nodrum, Melbourne, 2009. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/44956
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.title Relief No. 20 1993 en_US
dc.type Creative Work (non-textual) en
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unsw.contributor.creator Christofides, Andrew en_US
unsw.publisher.place Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, VIC en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Arts Design & Architecture
unsw.relation.ispartofexhibitionName Abstraction 6 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Christofides, Andrew, Art, College of Fine Arts, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school School of Art and Design *
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