After more than five amazing years in Glebe it is with mixed emotions that we announce Salerno Gallery will be moving to a new space. Glebe has been absolutely wonderful […]
Marfa: Texas by Jules McCue
25th March – 6th April, 2014
Opening Night:
Wednesday 26th of March, 6.00 – 8.00pm
Film screening:
Sunday March 30th at 3.00pm
Salerno Gallery presents Marfa: Texas [The Hairy Man from the East]. An exhibition of painted and video work by Jules McCue.
Special film screening and drinks Sunday 30th March from 3.00pm till 5.00pm.
This film documents the endless, sensual delights and cultural remnants seen on a train voyage into the desert from the Californian coastal city of Los Angeles. It includes the Marfa Texas paintings, music of Anne McCue, Mark McCue, The Iguanas and the poetry of Pablo Neruda, as well as the final words of Indian Chiefs and leaders.
20 PAINTINGS
“Monet said he was a peripatetic painter. I, too, fit into this category. I must paint. The subject changes as life takes me to different places and adventures”.
“However, I find myself inspired by ordinary things, such as buildings and objects. Though human-made, these things often hold the landscape within their materiality, form and function. They also reflect or convey the story of related humanity, good, bad, ugly or beautiful”.
These paintings grew out of a fabulous train trip from Los Angeles across Arizona, New Mexico into Marfa, Texas; a small, somewhat derelict, west Texan town. It was once a bustling ranch centre. Marfa was bought up by Donald Judd in the seventies, a minimalist artist from New York, where he showed his and his friends installations. He used his wealth to set up the Chinati Foundation which facilitates a variety of artists today
The fragments and secrets within the walls of the ordinary, folk-built architecture inspired these twenty paintings, 600mm x 600mm. The walls and facades contain the essence of what happened in the west of America; a similar story to that which occurred in Australia’s inland.
“Here we have neither the depiction of the invisible nor the imitation of an appearance. It is the unrepresentable and the presence: the effective magic of matter as it is in itself, in its timeless existence before the image and depiction. A place of absence and of human traces, the wall is not a response as an ideal or an image would be, but in the identification of the spirit as the non-representable and of matter in all its nudity there is the persistence of the question above all else.”
[Youseff Ishaghpour, Antoni Tapies: Works/Writing/Interviews. Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, 2006.p.86]
>> Online catalogue available here <<