Studio Space

Nouveau Réalisme

The first and second images are works by self taught artist Martial Raysee. The sculpture's exhibited at MoMA Paris. New Realism was founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restony who wrote the original manifesto titled "Constituative Declaration of New Realism" in April of that year. The joint declaration was signed by co founder artist Yves Klein at his workshop along with 9 other artists including Martial Raysse, Daniel Spoerri and Jean Tinguely. In 1961 along with others these were joined by artists such as painter, scultpor and film maker Niki de Saint Phalle.

Motion Efficiency Study

In 1910 Bragalia a film maker experimented with chronophotography and in 1911 exhibited his results. He produced his own manifesto "The Futurist Photodynamism" of 1913 and in September 1916 launched his "Manifesto Of Futurist Cinema" producing a full length film Perfido Incanto. Theatrical performances also were staged which foreshawdowed in their shock and compulsive nonsense the later activity of the Dadaists. Futurism became an international movement and its ideas had spread to most major cities before the outbreak of war in 1918.

Collage idea for a painting.

Sculptures

Following a lecture from Maria Zahle. Artists taken from Phaidon Book: Unmonumental.

A groundbreaking survey of contemporary sculpture by 30 of today's leading artists.
Essays by Richard Flood, Laura Hoptman, Massimiliano Gioni and Trevor Smith.

Rössler

Jaroslav Rössler was a Czech avant-garde photographer of the first half of the twentieth century. His work has only recently become known outside Eastern Europe but he became established for his fusing of different styles, bringing together elements of symbolism, pictorialism, expressionism, cubism, futurism, constructivism, new objectivity, and abstract art. His photographs often reduced images to elementary lines and shapes that seemed to form a new reality; he would photograph simple objects against a stark background of black and white, or use long exposures to picture hazy cones and spheres of light.

Collection

Above: image of a view across the living room of a British House of the Future, circa 1956. The visionary approach of futuristic living 1980, followed the belief that a house was a particular place, which should be suited to its location, able to meet everyday requirements and accommodate its inhabitants individual patterns of use. The one bedroom town house, containing a central garden ajoined within it also consitsted of interiors that included a sunken dining table, plastic niche surrounded dressing room table and a thermostraticaly controlled sunken bath .

The last image is an approved 15 storey office building for the French Alliance on Clarence St. Sydney. The last project and design of widely recognised Australian architect, Harry Seidler. Also shown is the image of Seidler's suburban home, regarded as Australia's most outstanding example of a house built in a Brutalist style. The house which emerged, it's make up and underlying design was totally different and divorced from the traditional way of standard suburban living. It was designed by both him and his wife Penelope Seidler and went on to win the Wilkinson Award, RAIA in 1967.