The attached painting “Possession Island” 1991 – collection: Museum of Sydney
The Gallery Of Modern Art (GOMA) Queensland.
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‘Unfinished Business: The Art of Gordon Bennett’ is the first large-scale exhibition of Bennett’s work and features 200 artworks ranging from installation and sculptural assemblage to painting, drawing, video and ceramics.
In his lifetime, Bennett was widely regarded as one of Queensland’s, and indeed one of Australia’s, most perceptive and inventive contemporary artists. Queensland-born, Bennett (1955–2014) was deeply engaged with questions of identity, perception and the construction of history, and made a profound and ongoing contribution to contemporary art in Australia and internationally.
Bennett voraciously consumed art history, current affairs, rap music and fiction, and processed it all into an unflinching critique of how identities are constituted and how history shapes individual and shared cultural conditions.
Working closely with the artist’s estate, the exhibition gives a new sense of Bennett’s aims, ideals and objectives, offering insights through a focus on the serial nature of his practice.
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Five things to know about Gordon Bennett
1. He was one of the leading Australian artists of his generation
2. His work challenges the concept of identity
3. He created a Pop Art alter ego
4. He wrote a letter to artist Basquiat, ten years after his death
5. He thought of his practice as ironic ‘history’ paintings
Learn and read more from the TATE (London) here.
