La Trobe Art Institute Bendigo stands on Jaara Country of which the members and elders of the Dja Dja Wurrung community and their forebears have been custodians for many centuries. We acknowledge their living culture and their unique role in the life of this region.
You're invited to the twilight launch of
AUTOLUMINESCENT
BRENDAN VAN HEK | REBECCA BAUMANN | ROSS MANNING
FRIDAY 12 JULY
5 - 7PM
[SUNSET @ 5:17PM]
[FREE] BUBBLES BY MANDURANG VALLEY WINES ARTIST TALKS BY REBECCA BAUMANN + BRENDAN VAN HEK
Autoluminescent presents artwork by three Australian contemporary artists who work across a variety of media, yet all embrace luminescent materiality in aspects of their work, to explore the nature of visual perception, light-induced sensory experience, temporality, transformation and interplay between minimalism and monumentalism.
Autoluminescence refers to ‘the luminescence of a substance due to energy originating within itself’ and as such, the exhibition presents a range of luminescent works that generate light or draw on available ambient light, transforming it through processes of reflection, refraction and absorption, harnessing the power of light to produce ephemeral sensory works of art to be experienced in-place.
Image: Brendan Van Hek, Portable Horizon (aquamarine, midnight blue), 2015, 230 X 242 X 60CM, neon, steel. Image courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery. Photo Ashley Barber.
