Notes to Basquiat: Perfect Teeth comes from the important extended series, Notes to Basquiat, which was a major theme in Bennetts work throughout the 1990sa selection of works on paper from this series was included in The Third Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT3) in 1999. Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art, 'Nothing quite prepares you for the impact of this exhibition': Haring Basquiat at the NGV, Here's looking at: Blue poles by Jackson Pollock. Synthetic polymer paint on paper Can I get copies of items from the Library? Meet one of Australias most important contemporary artists, whose bold and playful works explore the politics of identity, Gordon BennettHome Dcor (Relative/Absolute) Flowers for Mathinna #2 1999acrylic on linen182.5 x 182.5cmCollection: Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased with funds provided by the MCA Foundation, 2012 The Estate of Gordon Bennett. back the skin and flesh to reveal the innards, ribs and skeleton, the Notes: Title from inscription on verso. 'Unfinished Business: The Art of Gordon Bennett' celebrates the Queensland-based artist's globally recognised contribution to . Estimate: $80,000 - $100,000. Bennetts series works across both Australian and American Gordon Bennett. Look more closely, however, you can see paintings by the 'real' Bennett displayed on the walls. Pollocks action painting is presented as a form of cultural appropriation of First Nations sand painting in Notes to Basquiat: Bird (2001), and those same active lines form the veins of Bloodlines (1993). Synthetic polymer paint on paper Gordon Bennett - Sutton Gallery View Notes to Basquiat (1999) By Bennett Gordon; Synthetic polymer paint on linen; 182.5 x 182.5 cm. Brnice Geoffroy Schneiter, Le Journal des Arts, 'Art premier: La cration aborigne repense', pg. 1 / 1 - Notes to Basquiat - Big Shoes - 2002. 23-25, Sydney, May 2017-Jun 2017, 24 (colour illus.). and painterly fields of your work and particularly to the layered lines (1999). We notify you each time your favorite artists feature in an exhibition, auction or the press, Access detailed sales records for over 657,106 artists, and more than two decades of past auction results, Buy unsold paintings, prints and more for the best price, Notes to Basquiat: Myth of The Western Man ,2001, Notes to Basquiat: Cut the Circle II ,2001, Home Decor (After Margaret Presont) ; Preston+DeStijl = Citizen (My Boomerang Won't Come Back) 1996 - Gordon Bennett, Home Decor (Counter Composition) Black Swan, 1999 - Gordon Bennett. past efforts to "explain" myself - it reads: "Cultural identities are Of the latter four, Bennett is most easily understood as a critical postmodernist. Purchased with funds from the Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust, Museum of Sydney Appeal, 2007, Collection: Museum of Sydney, Sydney Living Museums, Gordon Bennett Australia 1955-2014. Accordingly, in the present Notes to Basquiat: (Ab)original, 1999, the experience of race and life generally in the northern and southern hemispheres is both differentiated and conflated through Bennett's highly sophisticated mimicry of Basquiat's spontaneous urban style. Paul Guest OAM QC under the Cultural Gifts Program 2018. Gordon Bennett Australia 1955-2014. Bloodlines 1993 I guess it spoke to me of the traces of different experience and layers Major retrospectives of his work toured Icon and Arnolfini galleries and Heine Onstad Kunstsenter in Europe during 19992000, Australian State galleries between 20072009 and The Netherlands in 2012. The works I have produced are notes, nothing more, to you and your works, posthumously yes, but importantly for me - living in the suburbs of Brisbane in the context of Australia and its colonial history, about as far away from New York as you can get - these are also notes to the people who knew you and your works, those who carry you with them in their memories and perhaps in their hearts.1. Gordon Bennett (1955 -2014) was an Australian artist of Aboriginal and Anglo-Celtic descent. Conceived as an open letter to Basquiat who died ten years earlier, the series appropriates the raw street style for which Basquiat became renowned in an attempt to communicate via the language of the New York context the similarities and crossconnections of our shared experience as human beings in separate worlds that each seek[s] to exclude, objectify and dehumanise the black body and person.1 Yet if Bennett borrows signature motifs from Basquiats oeuvre such as his use of lists and rap-like banter, he nevertheless imbues them with his own uniquely Australian symbolism. Est: AUD30 - AUD50. The late artist, of Indigenous and Anglo-Celtic ancestry, expressed his disgust through wit and anger in a variety of . Collection: Paul Eliadis Collection of Contemporary Australian Art, Australia Artists suggestions based on your preferences, Filter by media, style, movement, nationality and activity period, Overall performance of recent notable sales, Upcoming exhibitions at your preferred locations, Global snapshot, top performers and top lots, Charts on artist trends and performance over time, ready to export, Get your artworks appraised online in 72 hours or less by experienced IFAA accredited professionals. Gordon Bennett Notes to Basquiat: Modern Art, Sherman Galleries, exh. In Gordon Bennetts splendidly savage painting Notes to Basquiat: Perfect teeth 2000, his bright, biting satire sets white teeth against black skin in a retro pop-culture parody; the word mono in the centre of the canvas suggests the dominance of one colour in art and life, as well as implying what we might think of monotones (wherever found) and the assertion of a monoculture. 152: GORDON BENNETT. Three parts: a: 182 x 182cm; b: 182 x 61cm; I think it seeks to go beyond the words on the paper into a world of metaphor, allegory, images and ideas in order to say something that may not be said with just words.3, 1. Notes to Basquiat: Myth of The Western Man, 2001 born 1955. Basquiat, New York: Merrell Publishers. Gordon Bennett. ), 210. Change). Michel Basquiat and the "Dark" side of Hybridity" by Dick Hebdige, in (2014). Write an article and join a growing community of more than 163,400 academics and researchers from 4,609 institutions. Collection: Paul Eliadis Collection of Contemporary Australian Art, Australia He is understood alongside politically inclined American artists from the so-called Pictures generation of the 1970s and 80s (Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levin). . Others are held in regional, state and national collections (National Gallery of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of New South Wales) as well as international collections including Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam.LUCIE REEVES-SMITH, Important Australian + International Fine Art, Gordon Bennett, managed by John Citizen Arts Pty Ltd. GORDON BENNETT born 1955 Notes to Basquiat: Hand of God 1999 synthetic polymer paint on linen signe. Gordon Bennett - Art - LibGuides at Melbourne High School I was excited to find in the essay "Welcome to the Terrordome: Jean To learn more about how to request items watch this short online video . Thus, the oppressive ideologies and events surrounding colonization have been detrimental to the cultural identity of Aboriginal people and has consequently affected their social wellbeing today. The University of Queensland, Brisbane Acquired with the Assistance of the Visual Arts and Crafts Board of the Australia Council, 1989, The Estate of Gordon Bennett Collection: The University of Queensland. 120 x 80cm Perhaps McLean reads Bennetts work in this way because anger at injustice is the emotional tone critical postmodernism typically adopts. He did not discover his Aboriginal heritage until around age 11 and always resisted being pigeonholed as an Aboriginal artist. Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this catalogue contains names, recordings and images of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive. Medium. Mayer, M. Unfinished Business: The Art of Gordon Bennett McLean I., Probability, rap and coincidence: notes to Basquiat in Gordon Bennett: One Tense Moment (episode two), exhibition catalogue, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, 1999 . In the late 1990s, he embarked on two consecutive series of paintings, the Home Dcor series, and Notes to Basquiat. I feel I can understand This painting emanates from the 'Notes to Basquiat' series of paintings, where the artist takes appropriation to a new level within his practice. Abstraction (Citizen) 2011 Gordon Bennett 'Notes to Basquiat' (911) 2001 synthetic polymer paint on linen 182.5 x 304.0 cm. "A Short Note to Basquiat" Read more: We are developing and evolving the new Collection Online and would love to hear what you would like to see developed next by answering these questions after you've finished using the website. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Bennett, G., quoted in Gordon Bennett, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2007, p. 212. ibid.3. His colourful and thought provoking conceptual paintings, prints, performance videos and installations draw on many different sources and styles. within, the narratives of the past.". (2014). (2010). (1990). Works | NGV | View Work Gordon Bennett | NOTES TO BASQUIAT (2001) | MutualArt University of Wollongong Research Online These shapes are coloured red, yellow and black referencing the Aboriginal flag and loss of a culture. Please check your requests before visiting. Inscriptions: "G. Bennett Nov. 1999 / Notes to Basquiat: Untitled"--On verso. Bennett claims his identity was, shaped by the historical narratives of colonialism with all its romantic illusions and factual deletions (SMH 2014). Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Gordon Bennett, Notes to Basquiat: Totem Lesson 2 - Annette Larkin Apologies -- Australia -- Pictorial works. In Notes to Basquiat (Death of irony) 2002, Bennett astonishingly knits a homage to Basquiat with Islamic patterns and calligraphy into a coherent composition . Gordon Bennett | NGV ; Signed; . Another quote in the Dick Hebdige essay I found I connected with was If I were to choose a single word to describe my underlying drive it would be freedom To be free we must be able to question the ways our own history defines us. Gordon Bennett | Notes to Basquiat (1999) | MutualArt I confess I used to think so, but seeing this exhibition has made me reconsider. material existence, even though we may be separated by cultural context, See opening hours Copyright 20102023, The Conversation US, Inc. Born in 1955 in Monto, Queensland, Bennett was unaware of his mother's . The first African American artist to be internationally acclaimed, he was in many ways a model of the exotic success favoured in the rapacious celebrity stakes of the New York art world as much for his ethnic origins and youthful beauty as for his undoubted talent. Synthetic polymer paint on paper Exhibited: "Treasures Gallery", National Library of Australia, 12 December 2012 - 7 July 2013. Notes to Basquiat Untitled, 1999. history, culture and power. I guess it spoke to me of the traces The pop art inspired paintings of the Coloured People and Interiors series seem glossier and less political than Bennetts other work, but this is not the case. In Bennetts most anthologised article, acerbically titled The Manifest Toe, he describes his approach to art using an expression that is often used in critical rather than art theory: the politics of representation. Here we get to the crux of Bennetts contribution. In, In 1995 Bennett began making work under the name 'John Citizen'. Notes to Basquiat: one tense moment, Bellas Milani Gallery, Fortitude Valley, Jun1999Unknown, Biennale of Sydney 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, 26May200030Jul2000, Outsider/ insider: the art of Gordon Bennett, AAMU, Museum of contemporary Aboriginal art, Utrecht, 21Jun201209Dec2012, Mmoires vives: une histoire de l'art aborigine, Muse dAquitaine, Bordeaux, 16Oct201330Mar2014, Australian art and the Russian avant-garde, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29Jul201729Oct2017, Carnivalesque, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23Jun201828Oct2018, Jrme Bellay (Editor), Le Journal du Dimanche, 'L'art aborigne, la croise des mondes', pg. His intention in the Notes to Basquiat series is to 'highlight the similarities and cross-connections of our shared experience as human beings living in separate worlds that each seek to exclude, objectify and dehumanise the black body and person'. verso on canvas, pencil "G Bennett 31-8-1999/ ". The work also relates to Basquiat's paintings, following the same principles as his graffiti, signifying the existence of a more basic truth hidden within a given event or thought"--Information from acquisitions documentation.