[artbooks] Fw: Bernhard Sachs and Pamela Mei-Leng See

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Bernhard Sachs and Pamela Mei-Leng See










Bernhard Sachs
Sachs-Codex 1977-2007 - 1000 Drawings

Opening Thursday 22 November 6-8pm
Exhibition 21 November - 15 December 2007
The signature image for Sachs-Codex 1977-2007 is not one of the drawings 
in the 1000 drawings. It is not drawn at all in the conventional sense. 
Taken in the Rubens Room of the Louvre, it is a photograph of a 
representative from the People's Republic of China scrutinising the 
inundation of painting that is Rubens' Medici cycle. The photograph 
announces the tone of Sachs-Codex 1977-2007. We are not in the first 
instance involved in a discussion about drawing, although this is also 
always the case. The photograph summarises a relation in reading images, a 
relation in history, as a texture of displaced attention, an uncanniness, 
a being-in-art as the distance from it, of being strange to it. As an 
aesthetic.
Sachs-Codex 1977-2007 is a formalisation of notes, incidental musings, 
random thoughts that have accompanied major projects. The first in an 
intended series of codices, Codex A presents an intimacy, summaries, 
commentaries, propositions; a collation under the aegis of an Imaginary - 
The Biblioteca Apostatica: its insignia is stamped on every drawing in 
it...
The 1000 drawings that comprise Codex A are organised into a series of 127 
discrete folios, varying in size, each describing the trajectory of a 
thought. All of the drawings are numbered out of a thousand, labelled 
according to the folio it is a part of, stamped with two stamps - one from 
the Biblioteca Apostatica, the other from the Sachs Codex, and signed off 
as part of Codex A, 1977 - 2007.


Pamela Mei-Leng See
Consumption 
Opening Thursday 22 November 6-8pm
Exhibition 21 November - 15 December 2007
Cane toads hit art gallery in Redfern
Boutwell Draper Gallery will be playing host to a set of feisty northern 
invaders; a cane toad installation features as part of an exhibition 
investigating consumption across cultural boundaries.
Ms Pamela Mei-Leng See imbues symbolism to objects ranging from clothing 
tags to car mats using a knife and exquisitely precise cutting techniques 
acquired through studying the craft in regional China.
One of Queensland's foremost emergent talents, Ms See said "I was quite 
surprised, pleasantly surprised, at how the Chinese read my artwork,"
"... mostly it's the same imagery, yet they take an entirely different 
reading of it," said Ms See.
"Like the toads, in China they are an important symbol for wealth and 
prosperity," said Ms See.
Ms See found her inspiration for her papercut toads from observing 
coconuts landing on Mission Beach; the locale is in relative proximity to 
Gordonvale, where 100 of the species first were released in 1935.
"I began wondering: do coconuts dream of crossing the ocean?" said Ms See.
Likewise, she saw parallels between the introduction of cane toads and her 
own migrant experience.
The ideas of migration and introduced species are also illustrated in a 
more recent artwork titled: 100% Ackyuc; the artwork's title is derived 
from a printing error on clothing tags.
Cutting moth motifs out of these otherwise defective labels, Ms See 
assigns a cultural colonialist discourse in consideration of the effects 
cheap imports have on Australia's textile industry.
Ms See's last Sydney appearance occurred at the College of Fine Art's Ivan 
Dougherty Gallery, as part of the nationally touring exhibition Echoes of 
Home: Memory and Mobility in Recent Australasian Art.
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, 24hr Art in Darwin and the Pickled Art 
Centre in Beijing are also amongst the venues to show case her artwork in 
2007.


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