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There's no blood in the streets of Sydney. But audiences looking to flesh out the Biennale's treatise, "On Reason and Emotion," need go no further than the S. H. Ervin Gallery on Observatory Hill, where "Australian Surrealism: The Agapitos/Wilson Collection" opens this week. "In Surrealism the fire of...
Central to the show is Gleeson's 1939 work The Attitude of Lightning Towards a Lady-Mountain. Bristling with fire and ice, its riveting depiction of a female-shaped peak of laval rock being forged by the hand of lightning suggests both the irrationality of creation and the immutability of...
The revelation of the show, curated by Bruce James, is that artists like Gleeson, James Cant and Robert Klippel cut to the heart of European Surrealism, rubbing shoulders with Breton and Joan Mir? in Paris, and exhibiting with Roland Penrose and Man Ray in London. "Surrealism was not nationalistic, it...
While Heckroth would return to England, the movement stayed. And the Agapitos/Wilson Collection makes marvellously clear how this "whore of the polymorphous," as James puts it, sunk its tentacles deep into the body of Australian art. Its spirit can be traced through the floating cow canvases of Sidney Nolan, the...
Gleeson, nearing 90, continues to issue Surrealist thunderbolts from his Sydney studio; a retrospective due at the National Gallery of Victoria in October should confirm his Zeus-like status. "Do not commit suicide," Gleeson wrote in 1941, "for Surrealism has been born." It lives.