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Gainer

2014
230.0 x 300.0 cm
Ian Potter Museum of Art

Rob McLeish is fascinated by the image of the gymnast, returning to it constantly in recent years in drawing, collage and sculpture. He sees in gymnastics the tension between the aspiration for universal perfection and the inevitability of bodily decay. In Gainer (2014), a gymnastics term referring to the act of performing a backwards somersault whilst moving forward, images of gymnasts, silkscreened on sheets of white coated aluminium, are twisted and turned, replicating their movement when in full flight. The violence and severity of the crumpling acts as a metaphor for the tension and stress that both the body and the equipment it is engaged with are placed under during a routine. The positioning of these folded sheets as supports for the larger steel structures to which they are attached is a further analogy of the fine line between perfection and decay. The dexterity and contorted image of the gymnast

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Explore the unsettling beauty of Rob Mcleish's sculptures & installations. Themes of decay, desire, & corporeality meet iconoclasm in his Australian art.

Ian Potter Museum of Art (Carlton, Australia)

The Ian Potter Museum of Art is a learning museum of the University of Melbourne, situated at the Parkville Campus. Admission is free. The Potter Museum of Art and The University of Melbourne acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which we work and create. Continue

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Τίτλος: Gainer
Καλλιτέχνης: rob mcleish
Έτος: 2014
Αρχικές διαστάσεις: 230.0 x 300.0 cm
Κατάσταση πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων: Προστατευόμενο από πνευματικά δικαιώματα
Τοποθεσία έκθεσης: Ian Potter Museum of Art

Gainer

rob mcleish (1976 –)

Ian Potter Museum of Art (Carlton, Australia)

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Gainer

rob mcleish (1976 –)

Ian Potter Museum of Art (Carlton, Australia)

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