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recent work by
JASON HAUFE&FIONA HALSE
@gammaSPACE
OPENING 7 March 2001, 6-8pm
EXHIBITION 5 -17 March, 2001
Level 1, 141 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
The work of Jason Haufe and Fiona Halse shows the traditional distinction between the Romantic and the Classical is more of a result of the artist’s temperament than the subject being dealt with.
Haufe and Halse are responding to the pictorial issue of figure ground relationships, revolutionized by the advent of Cubism.
The material in Halse’s collage is the equivalent to the painterly abstraction of the New York School. Each piece of paper represents both a visual; function and its own material reality, unlike in cubism where the material is used to depict objects.
Haufe is exploring figure/ground relationships through the use of a modernist grid, with different depth of support exploring the relationships of painting to wall.
Halse has been included in the Sotheby’s Emerging Artists Auction in 1997 and the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery National Works on Paper Exhibition in 1998. Her work has been described as….. ‘commanding but sensitive’[1]… by Robert Nelson and as…… ‘strangely beautiful’[2]….by Jeff Makin.
Haufe is currently represented by Murdoch and Barclay. He has had six solo shows since completing his honours degree five years ago. He has been included in the Salon De Refuses in 1998.
Haufe is to Halse what the North pole is to the South. Opposites attached to the same axis.
Any further enquiries please contact Fiona Halse/Jason Haufe pH: 96894092
[1] Nelson, Robert, Visual Acumen Displayed by Artists with Confidence, The Age, 3 December 1999, page A17
[2] Makin, Jeff, Choice Views, The Herald Sun, 10th August 1998 page 98
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