The Devil’s Mountain
Gallery 1

23.07.10 – 14.08.10
Opening: Thursday 22.07.10
Artist Talk: Saturday 07.08.10

The Devil’s Mountain is an exhibition of sculptures and watercolour drawings exploring early mathematic ideas used to order and explain the physical world and to justify architectural systems; ideal transcendental abstractions such as the Platonic solids and Vitruvian and Modulor man. The exhibition looks at the relationship and tensions between these abstract systems and the chaotic reality of the world, considering their alteration and failure in their physical manifestations and the more subtle ways in which they distort the world.

own- GOAL!!!!
Gallery 2

23.07.10 – 14.08.10
Opening: Thursday 22.07.10
Artist Talk: Saturday 07.08.10

own- GOAL!!!!  is an exhibition in two parts.

Taking it one artwork at a time, own- GOAL!!!! is a trophy room of achievement, borrowing from the secular and non-secular world.

It is a ‘personal best’ exhibition for Nick Waddell whose training and intensity have resulted in big on-ground rewards.

It is about triumph over adversity, and going hard at the art.

It is about having a RED HOT GO!

Nepenthecae
Gallery 3

23.07.10 – 14.08.10
Opening: Thursday 22.07.10
Artist Talk: Saturday 07.08.10

Nepenthes or Pitcher Plants are meat-eating plants, but they are also exquisitely beautiful. Filled with sticky liquid, they seduce their prey and then, slowly consume it. There is a beautiful yet abject nature to this plant, with all its metaphorical implications.

Immanent Landscape exhibition at West Space, August 20 until September 4, 2010.
Wherefore ART Thou? forum series at Japan Foundation, Sydney, May 26 – August 25, 2010.  

West Space is proud to present Immanent Landscape, an exhibition and publication featuring Hamish Carr, Jeremy Bakker, Atsunobu Katagiri, Hisaharu Motoda, Nobuaki Onishi, Kiron Robinson, Ai Sasaki and Utako Shindo. The exhibition and accompanying residency will bring together these eight artists from Melbourne and Osaka, Japan, to consider ideas of landscape as a reflection of specific cultural perspectives – investigating how particular cultures intersect. The exhibition will comprise a series of installations that reflect the artists’ observations and anticipations of their cultural and geographical environment, in turn generating a complex intersection of the ‘cultural landscape’ of the Asia-Pacific region.

In conjunction with the exhibition, a series of artist talks and forums will take place at the Japan Foundation in Sydney over the coming months. Please see below for times, dates and further information on each event.

Next year Immanent Landscape will also be presented at AD&A Gallery in Osaka, a project space for contemporary art.

This project has been generously supported by Arts Victoria, City of Melbourne and the Japan Foundation.

WEST SPACE invites artists, collectives and curators to submit proposals to exhibit between July and December 2011. For detailed information about how to apply please visit the Program > Applications section.

Proposals must be received on or before 5pm, Friday 5 November 2010 (received not postmarked).