Important Australian Art Including Selected International Works

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Lot 33
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SHAUN GLADWELL

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 AUD
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Description

  • Shaun Gladwell
  • STORM SEQUENCE, 2000

  • Two digital video discs (Master and Player) each signed by the artist and numbered on the disc; contained in a Pelican 1150 case inscribed with 'Storm Sequence 2000 Shaun Gladwell' on the outside; the case enclosed in a Pelican cardboard box inscribed 2/4; Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist included

  • Digital video, edn. 2/4
    Videography: Techa Noble
    Original soundtrack: Kazumuchi Grime

  • Duration: 5.37 mins

Provenance

Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney

 

Exhibited

Silent, Ambient + Harder Remixes - Shaun Gladwell, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, 19 June - 12 July 2003
Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, Venice Biennale: 52nd International Art Exhibition, Venice, 10 June - 21 November 2007   

Condition

The Player DVD has some fine scratches which cause some 'flecking' to the first loop. The Player DVD is replaceable. The Master DVD is not in a permanently sealed case. Case and box in good condition.
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Catalogue Note

Shaun Gladwell's video works embrace the dichotomy of high and low cultures he gleans from modes of pop/sub-cultural expression (graffiti, breakdancing, BMX riding and skating) while simultaneously drawing deeply from art and literary history and discourse.

Storm Sequence, 2000, immediately invokes the turbulent, sublime seascapes of J.M.W. Turner. Gladwell has immersed himself wholly within the exhausting physicality of nature, positioned as a lone figure pirouetting on his skateboard on the concrete platforms that border the sea at Bondi. As with Turner, the tempest brews around him. He is entwined within the shifting nature of the ocean: crashing waves, tides and wind. The rain flickers at the camera lens, the soundtrack a quiet assault of short circuiting electric currents. The footage, opposing the slick, fast paced, jump cut images of the genre is slowed down by 40% of its natural speed resulting in a meditative, contemplative choreography imbued with isolation and tension.

Storm Sequence, 2000 was originally commissioned by Sydney art collector Peter Fay and has been shown around the globe, most recently at the 52nd Venice Biennale where Gladwell was singled out by U.K. art critic and author, Richard Dorment: 'If I had to pick the single young artist in this Biennale destined for future greatness, it would be the Australian Shaun Gladwell'. 1

1. Dorment, R., Telegraph.co.uk, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?ml=/arts/2007/06/12/babiennale11.xml&page=2, accessed 18 June 2007, 10.13 am