Continuous Moment: Damiano Bertoli
Edited by Brad Haylock
Surpllus
In the first major book on Melbourne artist Damiano Bertoli, this title presents a comprehensive survey of his diverse oeuvre. Essays by Justin Clemens, Liza Vasiliou, Helen Hughes, Chris Sharp, Helen Johnson and Nik Papas celebrate the artist’s expert use of montage and bricolage, examining his fascination with 20th century history. Their texts reveal the significance of the rise of postmodernism, globalisation and technology on a young Bertoli in the 1980s influencing his history and the complexity of appropriation. These essays are accompanied by detailed images of Bertoli’s collages, assemblages, paintings and installations, which draw on a range of archival documents and images allowing readers to appreciate Bertoli’s polysemic practice.
