In Wilma Tabacco’s new works, disquiet vies with seduction. Alluding to an excavation of a past both cultural and personal, she applies a refined abstraction, provocative deployment of colour dissonances and harmonies, together with spatial and conceptual nuances which demand psycho-physical engagement.
‘Cycladic’ consists of oil paintings, metal retrieved from Wilma’s collection of her empty oil paint tubes, and acrylic works on wood panels and paper. Elements of lost cultures and civilisations known to us from retrieved fragments of architecture and archaeological artefacts form the basis of images pieced together from a variety of disparate sources intended as a meditation on time and space.
Langford 120
Until 19 December, 2015
Melbourne
Sesame, 2015, oil on linen, 183 x 137cm
Courtesy the artist and Langford 120, Melbourne
