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    Matthys Gerber

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    Authors
    Messham-Muir, Kit
    Date
    2016
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Citation
    Messham-Muir, K. 2016. Matthys Gerber. Artforum International. 54 (5): pp. 266-267.
    Source Title
    Artforum International
    Additional URLs
    https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201601/matthys-gerber-56761
    ISSN
    1086-7058
    Faculty
    Faculty of Humanities
    School
    School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80790
    Collection
    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Dutch-born Australian painter Matthys Gerber has been a fixture of the notoriously quarrelsome Sydney contemporary art scene for roughly three decades. Consistently provocative and protean in terms of style and content, his work has been routinely dismissed by conservative commentators as cynical dilettantism or careerist one-upmanship. For Gerber’s first major survey, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia senior curator Natasha Bullock countered this perception by framing the artist’s output as a metacritique of painting in the Australian context, claiming that his work “has always carved a singular path through the ‘idea’ of painting.” The thirty-five works presented here as an evenly representative, if not comprehensive, jumble of distinct phases portrayed an artist constantly probing the limits and conditions of his own subjectivity and practice.

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