Geoff Kleem, Aegis, 2012. installation view. Courtesy the artist and Gertrude Contemporary. © Geoff Kleem
Geoff Kleem
Aegis
08 February – 09 March 2013
at Gertrude Contemporary, Fitzroy, Australia
Over the past twenty-five years Kleem’s practice has been typified by its diversity – traversing photography, sculpture, painting and even performance. For Gertrude Contemporary Kleem is presenting a new site-responsive installation where he explores the parameters of the gallery space through inserting a group of 24 karat gold scaffolding poles supporting a mass hovering between ceiling and floor. The custom designed supports generate a sense of compression and purpose while actually supporting the heavy boxlike form.
Designed for an underground space in New York and originally shown on Cockatoo Island Sydney these essentially functional objects have been transformed through being plated in 24k gold – a material laden with powerful symbolic and economic connotations which elevates their utilitarian status while blurring both their meaning and their function. [read the full text here]
Gertrude Contemporary
200 Gertrude Street
Fitzroy VIC 3065
Australia
gertrude.org.au
Opening hours
Tuesdat – Friday: 11h00 – 17h30
Saturday: 11h00 – 16h30
Geoff Kleem, Aegis, 2012. installation view. Courtesy the artist and Gertrude Contemporary. © Geoff Kleem Image via artbase.net