Title

Patrick Pound: The museum of holes. [Castlemaine Art Gallery

Venues

Castlemaine Art Gallery And Historical Museum None

Date

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Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (VIC).

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

Conjuring up a surprising range of meanings, from the cave to the grave, wishing wells and open-cut mines, portals and punctures, burrows and beehives, Patrick Pound’s The Museum of Holes is an amusing installation. Like a crossword puzzle of things, it emphasises the idea of a hole, rather than the hole, itself. Created from the artist’s own encyclopedic collection, along with artworks and objects from the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, The Museum of Holes is a cabinet of curiosities and a thinking machine that temporarily recasts everything through a single poetic idea. ‘I want to upset the false need for things to be fixed in their meaning. I want them to behave more like words; to give them more flexibility and put them back to work. The collection becomes a thinking machine, a memory machine and a picture puzzle.’ Patrick Pound 2014. [Gallery publicity]