Title

David Aspden: The colour of music and place.

Venues

Art Gallery Of New South Wales. (28 July 2011 – 4 September 2011)

Date

(2011)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (NSW). Paintings, Drawings, Prints.

Abstract

David Aspden (1935-2005) first came to prominence in 1960s Sydney as a young gun of the local avant garde and went on to forge an impressive career over the next four decades. His early work, first influenced by international hard-edge and colour field painting, gave way to a more nuanced and lyrical abstraction inspired by music and place, emphasising colour and his remarkable facility for tone. Aspden’s paintings were all-encompassing colour environments, and were for the artist as significant as an act or process of painting, as for their subject.

This exhibition focuses exclusively on the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ collection of David Aspden’s work, which was enhanced considerably by a major acquisition of paintings, drawings and prints from the artist’s estate in 2008. There is a particular emphasis on works on paper which are shown alongside a selection of key paintings. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated book on the Gallery’s Aspden collection.

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