01/09/2012 withdrawal of ABC art: red cube from the exhibition upon receiving the exhibition’s catalogue and reading the curatorial premise for the work’s inclusion, where I gave reasons for the withdrawal that include:
[The curatorial essay mentions] my art (with reference to Floor plan: Empty, except) within the context of Robert Morris’ essay. Not only is this misrepresentative of the place from which my art stems, but I hadn’t even read his notes on Sculpture at that time! Not until some years later.
The text in my art is not narrative. It does not tell a story about Jack and Jill running over a hill that exists externally to the sculptuation it is in. If it were narrative, it would not read the way it does, often stilted, chopped, awkward, blocky, non eventful, monotonous, etc. […] The text is not a bad nor a good story — it’s not a story at all. It functions as a spatial aspect of the sculptuation, that’s all. So people walk away disappointed with my art, with the conclusion I’m a bad writer. But the text has nothing to do with being a writer.
Gail Hastings, excerpts from email to the curator, 31 August 2012
Exhibition | |
Date: | 03/Aug/2012 to 04/Nov/2012 |
Curated by: | Sue Cramer |
At: | Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne |
Artists: |
Carl Andre, Lynda Benglis, Peter Booth, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, Ian Burn, Peter Cripps, John Davis, A.D.S. Donaldson, Richard Dunn, Mikala Dwyer, Dan Flavin, Elizabeth Gower, Gail Hastings, Dale Hickey, Robert Hunter, Robert Jacks, Tim Johnson, Donald Judd, Peter Kennedy, Geoff Kleem, Nigel Lendon, Sol LeWitt, Robert Macpherson, Anne-Marie May, Robert Morris, Bruce, Nauman, John Nixon, Wendy Paramor, Mike Parr, Paul Partos, John Peart, Kerrie Poliness, Mel Ramadan,Giles Ryder, Simone Slee, Tony Smith, Guy Stuart, Kathy Temin, Peter Tyndall, Trevor Vickers, Daniel Von Sturmer, Michael Young |
List of Works: |
by Gail Hastings ABC art: red cube |
Withdrawal: |
Catalogue received 22 August. |
Bibliography: | Sue Cramer, ‘Notes on Contemporary Post-Minimalism (part III): The Viewer’, in Sue Cramer (ed.), Less is More: Minimal and Post-Minimal Art in Australia, exhibition catalogue, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 2012, pp.67–9. Andrew McNamara, ‘Gail Hastings’, in Sue Cramer (ed.), Less is More: Minimal and Post-Minimal Art in Australia, exhibition catalogue, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 2012, pp.90–1. |
Heidi Museum of Modern Art Dir: Jason Smith 7 Templestowe Road |
Gail Hastings Installation 1989 / Fergus Armstrong Photograph 1989, Store 5, Melbourne
Suzannah Barta, Sandra Bridie, Lyndell Brown, Gail Hastings, Store 5, Melbourne
This Performance — A Passing Thought, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
S.W.I.M. Fund Raiser, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
Melinda Harper, Gail Hastings, Gary Wilson, Constanze Zikos, FirstDraft Gallery, Sydney
Some examples of different ways, Store 5, Melbourne
No, just an empty square, Store 5, Melbourne
Production, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Australian Perspecta 1991, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Gail Hastings & Elizabeth Newman, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Lovers, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
To make a work of timeless art, Artspace, Sydney
Road to Love, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
out of time: part two, David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane
Art 1996 Chicago, David Pestorius Gallery, Chicago
Reservoir, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie
The Pool, Centenary Pools, Brisbane
To make a work of timeless art, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
To make a work of timeless art, David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane
Wall as Medium?, David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane
four coincidences, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Duality: a series of weekly exhibitions during April 1997, David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane
Art 1997 Chicago, David Pestorius Gallery, Chicago
two corners and a cube, Galerie Köstring/Maier, München
On Dialogue, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
two and three stares, Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich
Statements Art 28‘97 Basel, David Pestorius Gallery, Basel
forgotten encyclopaedias, 24 Church Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
Art Forum Berlin 1997, David Pestorius Gallery, Berlin
To complete a work of contemporary art, Ausstellungsraum Thomas Taubert, Düsseldorf
art idea no. 8,582,048, Bahnwärterhaus, Esslingen
Close Quarters: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
art idea no. 8,582,048, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
projections, David Pestorius Gallery, Berlin
apparently not, David Pestorius Gallery, Berlin
I views, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
Close Quarters: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand, ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra
The Space Here Is Everywhere: Art with Architecture, Villa Merkel/Bahwärterhaus, Esslingen
Space Affects: the art and architecture of James Birrell and Gail Hastings, Metro Arts, Brisbane
Open House, Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane
OUI we, The Commercial, Sydney
20/20, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Exhibition: To Do, The Commercial, Sydney
Missing: four sculptuations by Gail Hastings, Apple Books, Available in 51 countries
Melbourne Art Fair, The Commercial, Melbourne
Taking it all away: MCA collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney