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Untitled 2015

Accession No.
2015.047
Date Created
2015
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Contemporary Asian Art
Dimensions A
302 x 137.3cm
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
synthetic polymer paint
Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Place Created
Manila
Credit Line
The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art.
Purchased 2015 with funds from Michael Sidney Myer through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation

Maria Taniguchi emphasises the gradual and labour-intensive process involved in creating her large ‘brick’ paintings, first drawing out a grid on the canvas and then painting in one brick at a time. Despite their predetermined composition, the surfaces of these paintings are neither uniform nor static. Taniguchi achieves gradations of shade by varying the amount of water and acrylic, which is discernible as the viewer moves in front of the work. Untitled evokes the urban environment through its resemblance to the generic brick wall pattern – known in masonry terms as the ‘stretcher’ or ‘running’ bond – that forms a building’s facade.

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© Maria Taniguchi

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Exhibitions featuring this object

Anida Yoeu Ali / Cambodia/USA b.1974 / The Buddhist Bug, Into the Night (still) (detail) 2015 / A project of Studio Revolt. Concept and performance: Anida Yoeu Ali; Video: Masahiro Sugano / Commissioned for APT8. The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art. Purchased 2015 with funds from Michael Sidney Myer through the QAGOMA Foundation / Collection: QAGOMA / © Anida Yoeu Ali

‘The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial’

Nov 2015 - Apr 2016

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