‘COLOUR MUSIC’ brings together the work of visual artists who speculate on connections between pictorial form and pitch, harmony, movement and musical notation. A core of historical works by Roy de Maistre, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, Jozef Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski and Frank Hinder provides the framework for contemporary artists who are also interested in the rapport between music and the visual arts.
Extended forms of painting using light, performance, kinetics and musical collaborations renew the preoccupation with synaesthesia that haunted the modernist project.
ANU Drill Hall Gallery
Until 28 September, 2014
Australian Capital Territory
Jozef Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski, 1979, laser image
Courtesy the Estate of J.S. Ostoja-Kotkowski and the State Library of South Australia