
3 Exhibitions at MOPI'm Just Going to Live Out of Boxes Until I Decide What I Want to Do. We've all been there scattered paper on a floor; boxes of stuff you... |

When: Wednesday, 20 October - Sunday, 7 November
Where: MOP , 2/39 Abercrombie St, Chippendale
How much: FREE
I'm Just Going to Live Out of Boxes Until I Decide What I Want to Do. We've all been there scattered paper on a floor; boxes of stuff you don't know if you want or really need; tidying your life into parcels. Bronwyn Clark-Coolee contemplates the past and the present through a process of pause and return in her current exhibition. Delicate watercolour portraits call across the room to a set of unnerving eyes which have been scratched-out of paper and roughly sewn her range of works are set apart from the other current shows by way of an alcove and lick of grey paint.
Screaming into Clark-Coolee's solitude is Ron Adams's optic-fantastic This Time. A mosaic of MDF tiles painted in acryliced precision begs PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET ME GET WHAT I WANT one wonders just exactly what is it Adams wants and who he's pleading with. And, who could deny him when he asks with that lyrical mix of etiquette and demand; of labored execution and immediacy.
On a quieter note, Clinton Garofano's No Flowers By Request asks us to contemplate the celebration of life with flower arrangement. White plinth lightboxes illuminate vintage still-lives of flower offerings at funerals and the act of viewing Garofano's work leaning down to peer at the image and read the accompanying gold plaque (which says something along the lines of how the deceased will be surely missed) invokes a feeling of reverence and distance.








