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Artist Talk with John Nixon and Barry Barker

17 Feb 2018

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Saturday
13:00 – 18:00

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Join us on the opening day of John Nixon's new exhibition at Laure Genillard Gallery for a talk between the artist and, curator and gallerist Barry Barker.

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Join us on the opening day of John Nixon's new exhibition at Laure Genillard Gallery Various Paintings on Various Colours, for a talk between the artist and, curator and gallerist  Barry Barker at 4pm.

Australian artist John Nixon has been exhibiting his version of non-objective art in Australia and internationally since the early 1970s, exploring the principals of minimal and geometric abstraction to convey a sense of their possibilities. The use of a group of primary and secondary colours, art and non-art materials, and a strong relationship with the surrounding space are key to Nixon’s personalisation of an art form that originated in the early 20th century. Nixon’s motivations as an artist were originally informed by late 1960s minimal art, conceptual art and Arte Povera, then channelled through the early movements of Russian Constructivism, Futurism and Fauvism – movements which have sought to challenge and re-define the function and purpose of art – and which inform his ongoing exploration. 

John Nixon (B. 1949, Sydney, Australia) is based in Melbourne. Recent solo exhibitions include; (2018) EPW: orange monochrome 2002, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris, France (2017)  New Etchings and Screenprints , Negative Press, Melbourne; Collages: 2011 – 2017, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney; Experimental Painting Workshop, Teksas, Graested, Denmark; John Nixon. Various Works 2013 - 2017, Museum Gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany; John Nixon – Abstraction, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; Collages: Selected Works, Two Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand; EPW, Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine; (2016) Yellow Monochrome (Japan), Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne; Photosheets, TCB, Melbourne; Paintings 1980-1990 – Paintings 2015, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney.

Barry Barker is a curator and gallerist and head of the Centre for Contemporary Visual Arts at the University of Brighton. Barker has thirty years experience of working within the contemporary visual arts, as a curator, writer and director of both publicly and privately funded arts organisations. These include the Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, ICA London, Arnolfini, Bristol, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Hayward Gallery, London, and the Lisson Gallery, London.

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