Thursday, May 16, 2024

Moffatt - Kokoschka - Rosenquist - Jerrems

Tracey Moffatt
Fourth #23
2001
inkjet print
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Tracey Moffatt
Fourth #24
2001
inkjet print
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Tracey Moffatt
Fourth #7
2001
inkjet print
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Tracey Moffatt
Fourth #8
2001
inkjet print
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Oskar Kokoschka
Froehliches Osterfest
ca. 1905-1910
lithograph
(postcard produced by Wiener Werkstätte)
Dallas Museum of Art

Oskar Kokoschka
Mädchen am Fenster
ca. 1908-1909
lithograph
(postcard produced by Wiener Werkstätte)
Dallas Museum of Art

Oskar Kokoschka
Mädchen mit Schaf auf Bergwiese
ca. 1908-1909
lithograph
(postcard produced by Wiener Werkstätte)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Oskar Kokoschka
Self Portrait
1918-19
oil on canvas
Leopold Museum, Vienna

James Rosenquist
Skull Snap
1989
lithograph and pressed paper pulp
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

James Rosenquist
Sun sets on the Time Zone
1989
lithograph and pressed paper pulp
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

James Rosenquist
The Bird of Paradise approaches the Hot Water Planet
1989
lithograph and pressed paper pulp
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

James Rosenquist
Time Dust
1992
lithograph, screenprint, collage and pressed paper pulp
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Carol Jerrems
Esben and Dusan, Cronulla
1977
gelatin silver print
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Carol Jerrems
Letter
1973
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Carol Jerrems
Martin Sharp with Painting
1973
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Carol Jerrems
Sandy, Yarra River
1975
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

from For the Time Being

If the muscle can feel repugnance, there is still a false move to be made;
If the mind can imagine to-morrow, there is still a defeat to remember;
As long as the self can say "I", it is impossible not to rebel;
As long as there is an accidental virtue, there is a necessary vice:
And the garden cannot exist, the miracle cannot occur.

For the garden is the only place there is, but you will not find it
Until you have looked for it everywhere and found nowhere that is not a desert;
The miracle is the only thing that happens, but to you it will not be apparent,
Until all events have been studied and nothing happens that you cannot explain;
And life is the destiny you are bound to refuse until you have consented to die. 

Therefore, see without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking:
The Inevitable is what will seem to happen to you purely by chance;
The Real is what will strike you as really absurd;
Unless you are certain you are dreaming, it is certainly a dream of your own;
Unless you exclaim – "There must be some mistake" – you must be mistaken.

– W.H. Auden (1941-42)