Concrete Playground

Yep, the pointy end of the year is here for Sydney. The Christmas party after Christmas after Christmas party marathon is about to start and, despite all the good advice on offer EVERYWHERE, things are going to get messy. But, even before the marathon begins, the compulsion has kicked in to go along to every last art opening before Sydney's art world goes to sleep for a month or so and we're deprived of art and all that complimentary tongue-loosening white the galleries like to serve. hiccup. oops.

Which is why I'm saying thank you to Jamie North and Manya Ginori. Their upcoming shows at MOP are just the things to encourage more graceful contemplation.

North's exhibition of photographs and sculptures, The Path of Least Resistance, "documents, embroiders and emulates" the wily native plants that, clinging to concrete crevices, have so adapted to city life.

In amongst all this a power struggle rages, as the organic clings to and strangles the inorganic and the inorganic gives nothing back. Over a series of visits you may just observe which wins.

In Gallery 2, Ginori's series of paintings on masonite panel and moulded acrylic sheet are a "playful and dynamic investigation of colours interacting". Four-part pieces, the masonite panel geometric abstract paintings can be re-configured in installation. This exhibition continues Ginori's exploration into the phenomenological experience of colour and space.


Image:  courtesy of Manya Ginori.