The
Perception/Deception exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide features illusion in art.
The artists represented in this
display explore the illusion of spatial depth and rhythmic movement, the
manifest relativity of colour and the ambiguity of pattern recognition. In
doing so, they remind visitors that art conceals as much as it reveals – the
impulse to trick the eye, and the mind, is integral to its story.
Several of the works fall under the
category of Op Art, a technique-based movement from the mid-1960s that followed
the Pop Art style. Op Art used retinal stimulation to create abstract paintings
and works on paper that ‘flared and flowed’ as though moving. Other artists
used different techniques to ‘trick the eye.’
Artists exhibited include Sol
LeWitt, Bridget Riley, Gerhard Richter, George Tjungurrayi, Marion Borgelt, Roy
Lichtenstein, Jonathan Horowitz, Vik Muniz, and Stanislaus Ostoja Kotkowski.
MARTINA NICOLLS is an international
aid and development consultant, and the author of:- The Shortness of
Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet
(2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).
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