1997

IN & OUT Contemporary Chinese Art of the Mainland and Diaspora

RMIT Gallery

22 July - 30 August 1997

Artists: Ah Xian, Guan Wei, Wang Zhiyuan, Li Tianyuan, Wang Guangyi, Wang Luyan, Wang Jianwei, Wang Yushen, Zhu Wei, Jiang Jie.

Curator: Jade Binghui Huangfu

Australian Tour organised in association with LASELLE SIA College of the Arts, Singapore.

Distanz und Nahe: Distance and Proximity, Contemporary German Photography

RMIT Gallery

3 - 28 June 1997

Artists: Bernd & Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hofer, Axel Hulte, Simon Nieweg, Thomas Ruff, Jorg Sasse, Thomas Struth & Petra Wunderlich.

A German Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations Travelling Exhibition in association with the Goethe-Institut Melbourne.

see food: Australian food photographers 1957-1997

RMIT Gallery

14 March - 19 April 1997

This exhibition was organised in association with the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 1997.

The show began by selecting images from Australian food photographers recommended by peers drawn from members of the Society of Advertising Commercial and Magazine Photographers (ACMP). Work which spanned a number of decades was of particular interest, in the belief that it would tell us something of the changes in social history and sense of identity, as different influences are taken up and absorbed in the cuisine. We began with the belief that the visual styling of food is an important indicator of shifting cultural values. All that we have seen reinforces that belief. Further, we wondered at the extent to which the imaging of food via photography would engage with a fine arts tradition in terms of various movements and genres. And finally we wanted to display the remarkable technical sophistication that much food photography demands.

Curators: Brian Brandt & Suzanne Davies

Latrobe Colour Laboratories, Bond Colour Laboratories and Bond Imaging and CPL printed the images for the exhibition. The 1997 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in the person of Sylvia Johnson has been a tireless supporter along with Tunnel Hill Wine’s Bella Donaldson, our generous co-sponsors of the exhibition. The RMIT Gallery was prepared with the assistance of David Jackson of Bristol paints. Finally, we thank the photographers who responded so generously and enthusiastically to our exhibition brief, providing us with the images with which we were able to shape the exhibition, and in turn, the stylists with whom they worked.

Turn the Soil

RMIT Gallery

14 March - 19 April 1997

An exhibition of Objects by 2nd Generation Australians.

In June 1994, Craft Australia committed to the development of an exhibition that would explore the experience of second generation Australian craftspeople from a non-English speaking background and the influence of their parents’ homeland culture. An exhibition curator, Kevin Murray, was asked to develop a curatorial thesis and ‘Turn the Soil’ began its journey.

The development and management of the exhibition and the tour has been made possible through a collaboration betweenCraft Victorian and NETS Victoria working closely with the curator.

Curator: Kevin Murray

Artists: Anita Apinis-Herman, Neville Assad-Salha, Vizma Bruns, Philomena Hali, Arsim Memishi, Hanh Nguyet Ngo & Szuszy Timar.

Turn the Soil is a Craft Victorian Exhibition toured by NETS Victoria.

The Weimar Republic

RMIT Gallery

17 January - 1 March 1997

German Prints and Drawings 1918-1933

This exhibition features the work of 24 artists including Gerd Arntz, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Kathe Kollwitz, Rudolph Schlichter, Bernhard Kretzschmer & Jeanne Mammen.

A German Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations Travelling Exhibition in association with the Goethe-Institut Melbourne. Australian Tour organised by the Art Gallery of Western Australian.