Graham Lang’s semi-biographical works often evoke both the external and internal realities of place and being; an interest further explored in this exhibition, which ‘alludes to the paradoxical power of contradiction to expose the essential unity of all things,’ says the artist. Lang encourages us to imagine wedded opposites on the wheel of existence with ‘humans festooned to fellow-creatures, wandering the wilderness they are biologically part of, yet seek to transcend, nemeses doing the tango of life. All part of one thing, one miraculous gestalt.’
Graham Lang, Exodus (For Better Or Worse), 2020, oil on board, 122 x 91.5cm. Courtesy the artist and Despard Gallery, Tasmania
Despard Gallery
16 September to 10 October 2020
Tasmania
