Current Season Current Exhibitions Current Events Video Lounge Future Exhibitions Past Exhibitions Touring Exhibitions News Catalogues Online Projects How to propose an exhibition Exhibitions for Hire 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 Towards a Theory of Everything 19 March - 18 April, 1999 Tue - Sun: 11.00am - 6.00pm Gallery One Lyndell Brown/Charles Green with Patrick Pound There is little in the Western world left unphotographed. Any history of the last twenty years is necessarily a photographic history. A theory of everything would be a theory in imagery. Featuring four massive but delicately articulated photo-based collages this exhibition is the result of more than twelve month's collective exploration and experimentation. Through a fertile collaboration the Australian artistic team of Lyndell Brown and Charles Green and Melbourne- based New Zealander Patrick Pound have built on their shared fascination for the way in which 'history' is reclaimed and revised through the often haphazard processes of acquisition and archive. With its focus on photographic constructions (and wilful distortions) of history, this exhibition complements the masquerade of the gallery Two exhibition , while in a further variation on a theme, Martin Parr's project in the Foyer wields collage in a mordant conflation of history and geography as the vassal of a Mass Mediated now. Image Credits: •  Lyndell Brown/Charles Green with Patrick Pound, Panoramic View of the City of Shadows, Part2, 1998 Four Ways Around a Frame Gallery Two David Cubby Debra Phillips Jacky Redgate Julie Rrap Four NSW based artists play with the alter-ego as each takes on the guise of a major artistic figure of the 20th Century. David Cubby becomes Margaret Bourke-White; Debra Phillips presents herself as an Alfred Steiglitz self-portrait; Jacky Redgate takes on the persona of lee Friedlander; and Julie Rrap poses as Marcel Duchamp assuming his own alter-ego of Rose Sélavy, as photographed by Man Ray. Behind the fun of the masquerade lie the paradoxes of self-regard, identity, desire, and the legacies of art as style. Image Credits: •  David Cubby, Untitled, 1985/98 Common Sense Foyer Martin Parr Martin Parr is the UK's best known exponent of the colour documentary. In this , his latest and most radical project, he confronts the viewer with close-up and often lurid details excised from contemporary urban life across five continents: fast food, fashion , freebies and all the flotsam of consumerism in avast wall of imagery. Initiated by the famous Magnum Photo Agency, this project will be staged simultaneously across more than a score of sites throughout the world including locations in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Stockholm, New York, Paris and Montreal. Terms and Conditions | © Copyright: Australian Centre for Photography, 2008. All Rights Reserved. Site by Suture Net | Hosting by Dreamhost