Suspended animations: Bergs02 & 03
Perspex sheets, 400mm x 400mm
Engraved with words by AA Davies, 2007
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Over virgin walls and plinths, art colonizes space.
Like house guests to a party, rooms fill.
Voices
shape a collective entity,
asserting place
in a new space.
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AA Davis writes:
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Exhibition
Pirouetting tessellations
and swirls of confused sideways conversations.
A ritual of connections and isolations.
Drifting, they find their place
invisibly bound by the prevalent gestures
of satirical perception.
An amaranthine ballet shown
in an opaque mirror.
Notice the swirling beauty
conjured by the wind.
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Gallery Adagio opens its doors
for a show of various artists
91 Glebe Point Road, Glebe
Logically and literally an ambiguous word this tempo marking on a score of music can have a variety of interpretations, historically and contextually. The meaning of adagio has changed throughout the centuries and for the most part has come to mean a slow, relaxed, graceful style of playing or singing. In a three and four movement symphony, with occasional exceptions, the movement marked adagio is usually the slowest of the three or four. Few can decide if adagio is slower than grave or largo. Some place it as a speed between these tempos while others maintain that it is the slowest possible of orchestral movements besides “adagio adagio” or “adagiosissimo.” At one time it was argued that adagio indicated a pace between largo, the slowest, and andante, a walking pace. The tempo indication is most effective when it is put in the hands of the performer to do with as s/he pleases or “as one wishes.” Arguably the term can simply mean graceful and at ease.
I do like the reflection of the car through the open doors. If I was walking slowly I would definitely walk in.