Dissonant Rhythms: Ross Manning
Institute of Modern Art
This monograph documents artist and musician Ross Manning’s first ten-year survey exhibition ‘Dissonant Rhythms’ shown at Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, in 2017. Manning produces extraordinary kinetic sculptures, large-scale mobile structures and installations constructed from everyday objects. Incorporating overhead fans, projectors, fluorescent light tubes, electronic materials and hand-made percussion instruments, these compositions become energetic fusions of light, colour and sound generating mesmeric multi-sensory encounters with familiar objects in new forms. Essays by Ellie Buttrose, Dr Caleb Kelly, Madeleine King and Dr Danni Zuvela and a collection of photographs altogether capture the intrinsic nature of Manning’s ideas and inspirations, and the fundamental principles of his practice.
