Boliou Art Gallery [Sponsored by Art & Art History and Media Studies]
Boliou Gallery presents a suite of large digital prints by Australian artist Martin King. Exhibition closes November 19.
"These works are a digital synthesis of photographs and etchings. The photographs that I have taken whilst flying over the Kimberley, have been combined with the etchings that I have produced in response to that landscape. The integration of the real objective landscape, that is the photo, with the invented subjective landscape' representation, that is, the etching, allows me to visually reinvent and modify the landscape, to accentuate the structure, topography, horizontality and even sense of movement over the land. Like the processes of nature, erosion, eruption, the faulting and folding of subterranean forces, the digital modification of the landscape becomes the agent of change, a technological simile for the effects of time, movement in the formation of the landscape."
"Fata Morgana"
Martin King on "Fata Morgana": "The geometry of geography, the sweeping lines caused by erosion, cut by water and rain. The subtle scarring of the landscape occurs by the integration and imposition of drawn and etched images from invented landscapes I have imagined. I pass over the landscape at high in a fast plane. Only briefly wondering what occurs beneath the surface. Then there is the luminous mirage, hazy in the heat, like a reflection, or another dimension to my understanding of the landscape."
Martin King has been exhibiting art for the past 25 years, and his work is represented in over 40 collections. He is represented by the King Street Galleries.
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