Artists:

Gosia Wlodarczak

Description: "Skin of the Wall, like many of the artist's previous projects, defies conventional curatorial definition, being neither simple drawing nor installation, nor performance, but a combination of the three. .... Skin of the Wall begins with the physical substance of its eventual destination, the west wall of the Helen Maxwell Gallery. This site was first carefully measured, drawn up and plotted with a rectilinear grid. With adjustments to accommodate interruptions and obstacles (beams, windows, exit signs, power points) and with a contingency allowance of four millimetres spacing between individual units, the wall was thus divided into a mosaic of 676 panels (most measuring 40 x 25 centimetres, some 20 x 25). There followed three months of measuring and cutting cardboard to size, then four months of cutting, folding and gluing the panels' wallpaper coverings. Only then could the drawing begin, and that was a further five months' work. And finally, at the end of that last process comes a reversion to the architectonic. The delicate, continuous breathing of the drawn line is broken up into panels, arranged in stacks, packets and boxes for transport, and a wall is erected in Canberra." David Hansen 2006

Dates:
04 August 2006 to 03 September 2006