ARTIST Derek Kreckler will be joined by Hannah Matthews, the curator of his latest exhibition, for a floor talk at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery on Friday.
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The pair will discuss Kreckler’s exhibition Accident & Process, which is now showing at BRAG.
It brings together for the first time five decades of the artist’s oeuvre. It encompasses photography, video, installation and performance works that date from the 1970s to the present day.
Kreckler is a leading Australian artist known for his experimental conceptual and post-minimalist practice.
The exhibition includes works such as Blind Ned (1996), which portrays an icon lost in the landscape and White Goods (2004) - a series of photographs capturing the dark foreboding of the bush and its attendant colonising culture.
An early work, How to Discipline a Tree (1989) implicates viewers in the act of mass consumption, locating them within an installation of pulped newspapers and monumental excess.
The multi-channel video installation Antidote (2005) documents a single waterfall through multiple viewpoints and varying scale, rendering it always partial and never whole.
Kreckler’s long held interest in the process of image construction is further revealed in Big Wave Hunting (2012) through exaggerated photographic composites of dramatic seascapes.
The presence of water within Kreckler’s practice has been an enduring motif, appearing as early as 1978 in works such as Wet Dream.
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
The free talk starts at 5pm.
