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...something unique. ENLEVER SES VETEMENTS: Despite its name (take off their clothes in French), this menswear shop, tel: (66-2) 640 8088, is all about putting on a daily armor that wouldn't look out of place in a style capital like London or New York City. In fact, artist turned designer Suparerk Bhasaputra is a New York transplant. Born in Bangkok, he spent 25 years in the Big Apple before returning to his birthplace. "When I first got here, the chaos in the way people dressed was giving me a headache," he says. "So I brought the New York...
...gallery. But where the exhibition breaks new ground is in exploring the relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous art. In a room to the right of Love Story, the Australian art divide is made spurious with the photographic works of Rosemary Laing and Michael Riley. The late Wiradjuri-Gamilaraay artist's final Cloud series suspended emblems of Aboriginal identity and dispossession in the same liquid-blue sky Laing sent her brides flying through. For her most recent series, the Sydney-based Laing traveled to the desert community of Balgo, where she set fire to Ikea-style furniture arranged...
...exhibition so sensitive to these cross-cultural currents, Piccinini's final room strikes the one false note. This singular Sierra Leone?born artist, whose mutant monsters speak of a genetically engineered future, seems more interested in nurture than Australian nature. And while Japan's appetite for cute creatures makes it easy to see why the curators found them irresistible, it's difficult relating them to the rest of the show...
Making amends is the central room of "Prism." Here Warlpiri artist Dorothy Napangardi's black-and-white paintings of salt plains, glittering like dark crystals, peacefully cohabit with Iranian-born Hossein Valamanesh's Fallen Branch, 2005. With the latter, the Adelaide-based sculptor has fashioned a circular, ceaselessly interconnecting series of bronze twigs that could well stand as a symbol for this subtly shape-shifting show. By redefining the perspective of Australian art, "Prism" shows that its indigenous and non-indigenous branches spring from the same growing tree...
...Crimson reported Friday morning that one of the two paintings bore a striking resemblance to Stuart’s 1816 portrait of Kirkland. The other is a 1790 portrait of a British nobleman by the American artist John Singleton Copley...