Verified Mysteries
Mysteries come in many forms and don’t always issue from the darkness. The light-filled pictorial universe that Cypriot-born, London-educated Andrew Christofides has prospected since the 1980s harbours certain mysteries, even though his paintings seem to be governed by decidedly rational precepts. Evolving Hierarchies, his current exhibition at King Street Gallery on William, Sydney, is a […]
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Andrew Christofides
Christofides’s new show ‘Parallel Universe: A Paradise of Images,’ at King Street Gallery, works between these modes of mark- and meaning-making. Christofides explores what it might be for a painting to ‘mean’ without having to ‘refer.’ Intensely interested in order, pattern, and slick, clean logics of spatial organisation, these new paintings enquire about the kinds […]
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Portraiture in Non-Objective Art
Disagreements over what we consider to be portraiture became intense when Justine Varga’s ‘Maternal Line’ won the 2017 Olive Cotton Prize for photographic portraiture.
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Artist Profile at Talk Contemporary
What is it about the relationship between non-objective art and portraiture that continues to evoke such a divided response?
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Andrew Christofides
In a career spanning 40 years, Andrew Christofides has forged a distinctive painting practice, recognisable for its sobriety and intellectual curiosity.
Visions of Utopia
By combining the not so well-known with the renowned, Visions of Utopia offers a fresh perspective on Australian Non-Objective painting.
