Paul Hopmeier, Durer, 2001, oiled steel, 40 x 75 x 62 cm. Image courtesy the artist and Defiance Galleries, Sydney.
Some of Australia's leading artists will provide their own answers to the question 'what is abstract art?' at an exhibition opening at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery on Thursday. The exhibition, Abstraction , brings together work from ten artists; five painters ' Virginia Coventry, Roy Jackson, Allan Mitleman, John Peart and Aida Tomescu, and five sculptors ' Michael Buzacott, Paul Hopmeier, Jan King, James Rogers and Paul Selwood. The exhibition is co-curated by Paul Selwood and Terence Maloon. Maloon last year put on the exhibition Paths to Abstraction 1867 - 1917 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, which traced the evolution in European art that led to the almost simultaneous creation of abstract paintings by dozens of artists from England to Russia. The ten artists whose work is on display in Abstraction belong to the same generation and share an ethos. But while their idioms, aspirations and ideas have much in common, each has continued to personalise and refine their individual artistic language over the course of the last thirty to forty years. Each artist has a lifetime's engagement with abstraction.
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