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The Enchanted Forest: New Gothic StorytellersA spellbinding exhibition that trails the uncanny, charmed and cursed, is featuring at the Latrobe Regional Gallery from this Saturday. By Latrobe City - 25th February 2009 - Back to News It’s an exhibition that revisits a time when animals and trees were thought to speak, when man was at the mercy of the forest, and the boundary between civilisation and the wilderness was less clearly defined.
‘The enchanted forest: new gothic storytellers’ features six of Australia’s most respected contemporary artists, who evoke a mesmerising woodland with intersecting storylines possessing both the charm and the implied menace of a Grimm’s fairytale.
Gallery team leader, Bryony Nainby, said that from sculpture, installation and painting to digital imagery and printmaking, this exhibition features 30 newly-created and existing works by notable mid-career artists Jazmina Cininas, Deborah Klein, Milan Milojevic, James Morrison, Louise Weaver, and Louiseann Zahra-King.
"In ‘The enchanted forest’, woodland animals sport shimmering sequined pelts, fallen birds are turned to bronze amongst etched glass flowers, and moths metamorphose into beautiful women and back again. Werewolves and dingoes lurk in the wolfsbane undergrowth; giants are felled among eucalypts, while fanciful trees with nocturnal blooms are home to illusions," Ms Nainby said.
Working across a range of mediums, the artists in ‘The enchanted forest’ explore fables and folklore, creating their own personal mythologies to explore the socially constructed notions of nature.
As curator Jazmina Cininas explains: "The artists draw on a gothic understanding of the forest, of a nature that comes with its own inherent dangers – and its own temptations to stray from the path. The precarious relationship between humanity and the natural world creates new monsters, both more dangerous and more marvellous than those in any fairytale."
‘Enchanted Forest: new gothic storytellers’ opens at the Latrobe Regional Gallery on Saturday 21 February and continues until Sunday 19 April.
Latrobe Regional Gallery has designed a range of exciting children’s activities based on The Enchanted Forest, and these free activities are being showcased on weekends as part of the Gallery’s new ‘Art Cart’ program.
For more information on the children’s activities please contact Nicole Brindley on 5128 5708, or for exhibition information contact the Gallery on 5128 5700, or e-mail lrg@latrobe.vic.gov.au.
Latrobe Regional Gallery is located at 138 Commercial Road, Morwell, and is open Monday to Friday 10am-5pm, and on weekends 11am–4pm. The gallery is closed public holidays. Entry is free.
Source: www.gippsland.com Published by: news@gippsland.com
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