Artist: Anita Mertzlin
Content: Painting
Price Range: from $800 to $5,200
Exhibition: Gallery 101 - Ground Level/101 Collins Street Melbourne 3000
Dates: August 20 - September 6 2008
By Arrangement is an exhibition of thirty still life paintings in which unlikely objects such as kettles, nests, china cups and saucers, apples and bottles of Brasso are placed together in compositions that appear to be as much a comment on time as they are space.
The paintings themselves are superbly executed and the items are arranged to take full advantage of surface textures, reflections, shadows and negative space. The strength of the show for me lies in the works Domesticity and Black Velvet. These have most successfully created tension between surface and space and feel more anchored than the other paintings in the show.
Overall By Arrangement is a good show of very competent paintings that work well in the large space of Gallery 101. The gallery itself is worth visiting just for the experience of walking through the opulence of the polished marble and granite interior of the 101 foyer.
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