2025 Locating the Contemporary Monochrome
Image: David viewing Atsuka Tanaka's "Untitled", Silk and sticks, 10m x10m x 30cm,1955 at Documenta, Kassel in 2007
Join David Thomas, Emeritus Professor in the School of Art, at JAHM for his talk:
shifting realities THE MOVEMENT OF COLOUR Locating the contemporary monochrome:
On Nothing and the movement of meaning between East and West.
"Artworks like life have multiple layers of content and we need time to unpack them as viewers.
I wish in this talk to unpack ideas in relation to MONOCHROME PAINTING. It is I believe a useful genre through which to consider complexity, time and perception. In doing so I will consider some similarities and differences between the approaches and practices of MONOCHROME PAINTING IN THE EAST AND THE WEST. I will reflect on how the monochrome can assist us in considering the relationship between content and materiality, between something and nothing, and importantly help us to understand to what and how we ascribe value."
Join David Thomas, Emeritus Professor in the School of Art, at JAHM for his talk:
shifting realities THE MOVEMENT OF COLOUR Locating the contemporary monochrome:
On Nothing and the movement of meaning between East and West.
"Artworks like life have multiple layers of content and we need time to unpack them as viewers.
I wish in this talk to unpack ideas in relation to MONOCHROME PAINTING. It is I believe a useful genre through which to consider complexity, time and perception. In doing so I will consider some similarities and differences between the approaches and practices of MONOCHROME PAINTING IN THE EAST AND THE WEST. I will reflect on how the monochrome can assist us in considering the relationship between content and materiality, between something and nothing, and importantly help us to understand to what and how we ascribe value."
Tuesday 29 July 2025 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM (UTC+10)
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Justin Art House Museum JAHM
3 Lumley Court, Prahran VIC 3181
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2025 Locating the Contemporary Monochrome
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