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Exhibition

David Sequeira: History & Infinity

David Sequeira: History & Infinity
  • When 18 Aug - 19 Nov 2023
  • Where
    UNSW GALLERIES
  • Address
    Cnr Oxford St & Greens Rd Paddington NSW 2021
  • Hours
    WED TO FRI 10AM–5PM; SAT TO SUN 12–5PM
  • Phone
    +61 2 8936 0888

Artist and curator David Sequeira uses languages of colour, space, and geometry to intervene and rethink the narratives of art. His work disrupts hierarchies of high and low art and reframes how we identify, value, and understand cultural production by exploring ideas of personal and shared histories, the repercussions of colonisation, and the need to recognise marginalised and excluded visual and material histories.
 
The exhibition centres around History and Infinity 2022, a shelf-based installation of over 1000 glass and ceramic vases punctuated by paintings by other artists. The paintings refer to colonial history, modernism, postmodernism, paintings of paintings, creation stories, and references to 15th Century Flemish drapery and 18th Century French portraiture — a mash-up of ideas, places and approaches that form an unlikely connective tissue via Sequeira’s colour chart of vessels.
 
Also featured in the exhibition is Symphonic Poem 2014, a sequence of 48 works on paper that articulates Sequeira’s interest in exploring the relationship between colour and music. Through tonal variation and repetition of geometric form, Sequeira draws attention to visual resonance and vibration of colour. The ocean refuses no river 2023, offers another body of paintings that combines intense diagrammatic studies of geometric colour with ocean-scapes. Painted on music manuscript and displayed on music stands, the work conflates the realms of geometry, colour, music and ocean to highlight Sequeira’s persistent themes of continuity, endlessness and infinity.

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Presented with the support of Bunjil Place.

 

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Public Program

In-Conversation: David Sequeira & Rachel Kent
2–3pm Saturday 19 August 2023

Learn more about the practice of artist and curator David Sequeira in conversation with Bundanon Trust CEO Rachel Kent.

 

Tile and Banner Image: David Sequeria, History & Infinity 2022. Image courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Christian Capurro
Installation Images: Installation view, 'David Sequeira: History & Infinity', UNSW Galleries, Sydney, 2023. Photograph: Jacquie Manning