Kate Bergin
November 2013
Tabletop Performances & Other Balancing Acts.
These are the last days to catch the extraordinary paintings of Melbourne artist Kate Bergin in her latest collection at Mossgreen Gallery.
Bergin combines the surreal with the hyper-real; the photographic with an oddness of juxtaposition that calls into question many of our ways of appreciating the relationship between wild and domestic, everyday and exotic.
Bergin’s artistic influences, writes Erica Kritikides, “range from seventeenth century Spanish still life… to the surrealist images of Rene Magritte. Bergin also cites John Brack as having had a profound impact on her work,” and the influence of later Brack is indeed very apparent.
“Interlocking ideas from current affairs, history, poetry and music, her tabletop variations represent a journey… for meaning through the squawking and rummaging and all the distraction of our daily existence,” Kritikides writes.
“Far from ‘still’, these are paintings that quiver with movement, laughter and life – in all its variations.”
Kate Bergin: Tabletop Performances and other Balancing Acts shows at Mossgreen Gallery, 926 – 930 High St. Armadale, until November 20.
Image:
1. Standard Deviation of Random Variables © Kate Bergin
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