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== History ==
== History ==
Bruce Pollard established the Pinacotheca gallery in 1967, at 1 [[Fitzroy Street, Melbourne|Fitzroy Street]], a dark [[St Kilda, Victoria|St Kilda]] bayside Edwardian mansion. He relocated it to an old hat factory at 10 Waltham Place, Richmond, Melbourne in 1970. The gallery closed in 2002.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/39488267|title=[Pinacotheca (Melbourne, Vic.) : Australian Gallery File]|last=Pinacotheca (Melbourne|first=Vic.)|language=English}}</ref>
Bruce Pollard opened the Pinacotheca gallery in May 1967, at 1 [[Fitzroy Street, Melbourne|Fitzroy Street]], a dark [[St Kilda, Victoria|St Kilda]] bayside Edwardian mansion. He relocated it to an old hat factory at 10 Waltham Place, Richmond, Melbourne in June 1970. The gallery closed in October 1999 but re-opened in August 2002 for its very last exhibition, then closed permanently.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/39488267|title=[Pinacotheca (Melbourne, Vic.) : Australian Gallery File]|last=Pinacotheca (Melbourne|first=Vic.)|language=English}}</ref><ref>J. Sweet, ''Pinacotheca'', Trevor Fuller, ‘Bruce Pollard and Pinacotheca: Psychological Content’, ''Artlink'', vol.26, no.4, 2006, pp 92-93</ref><ref>Charles Green, ‘Pinacotheca: A Private Art History’, ''Art and Australia'', vol. 34, no. 4, 1997, pp 484-489.</ref>


== Ethos ==
== Ethos ==


After the demise of John Reed's [[Museum of Modern Art Australia (MOMAA)|Museum of Modern Art Australia]] in 1966, Pinacotheca became the only gallery in Melbourne showing experimental work in the late 1960s and 1970s,<ref>{{Cite book | author1=Haese, Richard | author2=Brown, Mike, 1938-1997 (artist) | title=Permanent revolution : Mike Brown and the Australian avant-garde 1953-1997 | publication-date=2011 | publisher=Miegunyah Press | isbn=978-0-522-86080-1 }}</ref> paralleled only by [[Sydney|Sydney's]] Watters Gallery,<ref>{{Citation | author1=Green, Charles | title=Pinacotheca: a private art history. (art gallery, Melbourne, Australia) | journal=Art and Australia | publication-date=1997-03-22 | publisher=Art and Australia Pty. Ltd | volume=v34 | issue=n4 | pages=484(6) | issn=0004-301X }}</ref> and indeed in 1977 a show ''Watters at Pinacotheca'', during May 4–28, showed Suzanna Archer, John Armstrong, George Barker, Jenny Barwell, [[Vivienne Binns]], Hilary Burns, Tim Burns, [[James Clifford (artist)|James Clifford]], Tony Coleing, [[Aleks Danko]], John Delacour, Helen Eager, Jeanne Eager, Stephen Earle, Marr Grounds, [[Adrian Hall (artist)|Adrian Hall]], Ian Howard, Noel Hutchison, Robert Jenyns, Ron Lambert, [[Richard Larter]], Bruce Latimer, Frank Littler, Bridgid McLean, Marie McMahon, Patricia Moylan, [[Reg Mombassa|Chris O'Doherty]], Robert Parr, [[John Peart (artist)|John Peart]], [[Geoffrey Proud]], [[David Rankin (artist)|David Rankin]], [[Jon Rhodes]], [[Ken Searle]], [[Imants Tillers]], [[Tony Tuckson]], Vicki Varvaressos, [[Robin Wallace-Crabbe]], and Max Watters.
After the demise of John Reed's [[Museum of Modern Art Australia (MOMAA)|Museum of Modern Art Australia]] in 1966, Pinacotheca became the only gallery in Melbourne showing experimental work in the late 1960s and 1970s,<ref>{{Cite book | author1=Haese, Richard | author2=Brown, Mike, 1938-1997 (artist) | title=Permanent revolution : Mike Brown and the Australian avant-garde 1953-1997 | publication-date=2011 | publisher=Miegunyah Press | isbn=978-0-522-86080-1 }}</ref> paralleled only by [[Sydney|Sydney's]] Watters Gallery,<ref>{{Citation | author1=Green, Charles | title=Pinacotheca: a private art history. (art gallery, Melbourne, Australia) | journal=Art and Australia | publication-date=1997-03-22 | publisher=Art and Australia Pty. Ltd | volume=v34 | issue=n4 | pages=484(6) | issn=0004-301X }}</ref> and indeed in 1977 a show ''Watters at Pinacotheca'', during May 4–28, showed Suzanna Archer, John Armstrong, George Barker, Jenny Barwell, [[Vivienne Binns]], Hilary Burns, Tim Burns, [[James Clifford (artist)|James Clifford]], Tony Coleing, [[Aleks Danko]], John Delacour, Helen Eager, Jeanne Eager, Stephen Earle, Marr Grounds, [[Adrian Hall (artist)|Adrian Hall]], Ian Howard, Noel Hutchison, Robert Jenyns, Ron Lambert, [[Richard Larter]], Bruce Latimer, Frank Littler, Bridgid McLean, Marie McMahon, Patricia Moylan, [[Reg Mombassa|Chris O'Doherty]], Robert Parr, [[John Peart (artist)|John Peart]], [[Geoffrey Proud]], [[David Rankin (artist)|David Rankin]], [[Jon Rhodes]], [[Ken Searle]], [[Imants Tillers]], [[Tony Tuckson]], Vicki Varvaressos, [[Robin Wallace-Crabbe]], and Max Watters.


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In 1971-72 the gallery operated as an artists’ cooperative of around twenty, including Robert Hunter, Bill Anderson, Jonas Balsaitis, Peter Booth, Dale Hickey, Simon Klose and Robert Rooney, while Pollard was travelling overseas.<ref name=":2" /> During this period Mike Brown, Kevin Mortenson and Russell Drever, with numbers of others held the [[Dada]]-ist happening ''The Opening Leg Show Party-Bizarre.'' [[Patrick McCaughey]], ''The Age'' art critic, described it as “more or less, according to taste, than clean good fun”
In 1971-72 the gallery operated as an artists’ cooperative of around twenty, including Robert Hunter, Bill Anderson, Jonas Balsaitis, Peter Booth, Dale Hickey, Simon Klose and Robert Rooney, while Pollard was travelling overseas.<ref name=":2" /> During this period Mike Brown, Kevin Mortenson and Russell Drever, with numbers of others held the [[Dada]]-ist happening ''The Opening Leg Show Party-Bizarre.'' [[Patrick McCaughey]], ''The Age'' art critic, described it as “more or less, according to taste, than clean good fun”

Pollard's early attitude to representing women artists was exposed in 1975 when [[Kiffy Rubbo]], curator (1971-1979) at the avant-garde George Paton/Ewing Gallery asked Lesley Dumbrell to escort Lucy Lippard, a feminist critic of Pop Art and Minimalism who was then visiting from the United States as part of celebrations for International Women’s Year. The visited galleries including Pinacotheca. When Pollard invited Lippard to view the stock room, she explained she was interested only in seeing women artists. Pollard took umbrage and Lippard walked out after berating him.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nattysolo.com/2018/04/11/finding-the-field/|title=Finding the Field|date=2018-04-11|website=nattysolo|language=en|access-date=2019-08-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://artguide.com.au/art-plus/kiffy-rubbo-curating-1970s|title=Kiffy Rubbo: Curating the 1970s|website=Art Guide Australia|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-21}}</ref>


==Exhibitions==
==Exhibitions==

Revision as of 05:56, 21 August 2019

Pinacotheca (1967–2002) was a gallery in Melbourne, Australia. Established in 1967 by Bruce Pollard (b. 1936), it was ideologically committed to the avant-garde and represented a new generation of artists interested in post-object, conceptual[1] and other non-traditional art forms.[2]

History

Bruce Pollard opened the Pinacotheca gallery in May 1967, at 1 Fitzroy Street, a dark St Kilda bayside Edwardian mansion. He relocated it to an old hat factory at 10 Waltham Place, Richmond, Melbourne in June 1970. The gallery closed in October 1999 but re-opened in August 2002 for its very last exhibition, then closed permanently.[3][4][5]

Ethos

After the demise of John Reed's Museum of Modern Art Australia in 1966, Pinacotheca became the only gallery in Melbourne showing experimental work in the late 1960s and 1970s,[6] paralleled only by Sydney's Watters Gallery,[7] and indeed in 1977 a show Watters at Pinacotheca, during May 4–28, showed Suzanna Archer, John Armstrong, George Barker, Jenny Barwell, Vivienne Binns, Hilary Burns, Tim Burns, James Clifford, Tony Coleing, Aleks Danko, John Delacour, Helen Eager, Jeanne Eager, Stephen Earle, Marr Grounds, Adrian Hall, Ian Howard, Noel Hutchison, Robert Jenyns, Ron Lambert, Richard Larter, Bruce Latimer, Frank Littler, Bridgid McLean, Marie McMahon, Patricia Moylan, Chris O'Doherty, Robert Parr, John Peart, Geoffrey Proud, David Rankin, Jon Rhodes, Ken Searle, Imants Tillers, Tony Tuckson, Vicki Varvaressos, Robin Wallace-Crabbe, and Max Watters.

Its spacious accommodation in Richmond was in impression not unlike a New York SoHo loft,[8] and possessed a similar sensibility;

"...a large concretete expanse, broken by scrubbed wooden pillars lay beyond the forbidding metal door. It was austerity and doggedness in timber, bricks and mortar, the aesthetic was primitive and cool, the art work was stripped of anything reassuring, and if the lights were off the visitor was expected to turn them on...Clive Murray White described the aesthetic of the gallery as having the "air of New York: if you took a photograph of your work, it would look like a major international avant-garde show."

— Sweet, Jonathan D. (Jonathan David); Prendergast, Maria; Pinacotheca (Art gallery) (1989), Pinacotheca, 1967-1973, Prendergast Publishers, ISBN 978-0-9587850-2-0

Its ambience was well suited to the display of large works by Peter Booth, Dale Hickey, Robert Hunter and Robert Rooney who were some of the first artists represented there, in a group exhibition.

In 1971-72 the gallery operated as an artists’ cooperative of around twenty, including Robert Hunter, Bill Anderson, Jonas Balsaitis, Peter Booth, Dale Hickey, Simon Klose and Robert Rooney, while Pollard was travelling overseas.[2] During this period Mike Brown, Kevin Mortenson and Russell Drever, with numbers of others held the Dada-ist happening The Opening Leg Show Party-Bizarre. Patrick McCaughey, The Age art critic, described it as “more or less, according to taste, than clean good fun”

Pollard's early attitude to representing women artists was exposed in 1975 when Kiffy Rubbo, curator (1971-1979) at the avant-garde George Paton/Ewing Gallery asked Lesley Dumbrell to escort Lucy Lippard, a feminist critic of Pop Art and Minimalism who was then visiting from the United States as part of celebrations for International Women’s Year. The visited galleries including Pinacotheca. When Pollard invited Lippard to view the stock room, she explained she was interested only in seeing women artists. Pollard took umbrage and Lippard walked out after berating him.[9][10]

Exhibitions

Over its history, more than 300 artists showed at Pinacotheca, and among the shows was significant and challenging art by Australians Rosalie Gascoigne,[11] James Gleeson,[12] Bill Henson, Tim Johnson, Tony Tuckson and Stelarc. Ti Parks was the last artist to show there in August 2002.[8]

An example of the often hermetic austerity of the exhibitions was Robert Rooney's and Simon Klose's collaboration, from 10–20 August 1972, RR/SK: Public Exhibition consisting of banks of deadpan photographic prints of urban landscape and interiors, with bluestone pitchers installed in grids on the gallery floor. Critic Patrick McCaughey, announced it a symptom of ‘the demise of the avant-garde into the easy, the predictable, the familiar,’[13] while Alan McCulloch reported that it was 'Everything or Perhaps Nothing.'[14] In fact the conceptual premise of the show was Klose's proposition that the pair should each produce work for the other—in the other's style and presenting it as theirs—and yet reveal the fact to no-one, even the critics, when questioned by visitors to the gallery, bar a few intimate friends.[15]

Selected exhibitions

  • 1970, 25 Aug—Sept 5: Peter Booth solo exhibition[16]
  • 1971: 4 Conceptual Artists: Mel Ramsden, Ian Burn, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Rooney, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, with catalogue by Rooney[17]
  • 1971, May: Welcome to Planet X Mike Brown[17]
  • 1971: Wes Placek (solo)
  • 1972: Film Construction. Installation by Colin Suggett with Peter Cole
  • 1972: The Opening Leg Show Party-Bizarre: Mike Brown, Kevin Mortenson and Russell Drever[17]
  • 1972, Aug 10-20: RR/SK: Public Exhibition[15]
  • 1972: Wes Placek (solo)
  • 1973: Wes Placek (solo)
  • 1973: John Nixon (solo)[18]
  • 1975: Jim Paterson[19]
  • 1978: Robert Hunter and American Minimalist Carl Andre: two-person exhibitions[20]
  • 1979: Magda Matwiejew first solo show.
  • 1981: Rosalie Gascoigne
  • 1981: Ray Hughes Gallery at Pinacotheca, Pinacotheca Art Gallery (Richmond, Vic.) in 1981[21]
  • 1981: James Clayden Paintings[22]
  • 1982: Steven Cox[22]
  • 1982: Magda Matwiejew, Paintings
  • 1983: James Clayden[22]
  • 1984: Rosalie Gascoigne
  • 1984: Ken Searle and Frank Littler joint show[22]
  • 1984, November: Robert Klippel: bronze sculptures and works on paper
  • 1985, July: Bill Henson, Untitled 1983/84
  • 1985: Steven Cox[22]
  • 1985: James Clayden[22]
  • 1986 Geoffrey Bartlett, sculpture.
  • 1986, August/September: Three designers: Biltmoderne at Pinacotheca: Architecture, Interiors, Furniture[23]
  • 1987: Melinda Harper[24]
  • 1989: Tony Tuckson: an exhibition [25]
  • 1991: Contemporary Paintings, Pinacotheca, Richmond (group exhibition)
  • 1992: Andrew Taylor Recent Paintings, Pinacotheca, Richmond (solo)[26]
  • 1994: Works on Paper by Valerio Ciccone, Pinacotheca, 1994
  • 1996: Works by Valerio Ciccone
  • 1996: James Gleeson

Legacy

Documentation and catalogues were deliberately kept to a minimum and consequently its exhibition history is limited and dates of shows only approximate.

References

  1. ^ Gardner, Anthony; Green, Charles, 1953- (author) (2016). Biennials, triennials, and documenta : the exhibitions that created contemporary art. Wiley Blackwell. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-4443-3665-8. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ a b Sweet, Jonathan D. (Jonathan David); Prendergast, Maria; Pinacotheca (Art gallery) (1989), Pinacotheca, 1967-1973, Prendergast Publishers, ISBN 978-0-9587850-2-0
  3. ^ Pinacotheca (Melbourne, Vic.). [Pinacotheca (Melbourne, Vic.) : Australian Gallery File].
  4. ^ J. Sweet, Pinacotheca, Trevor Fuller, ‘Bruce Pollard and Pinacotheca: Psychological Content’, Artlink, vol.26, no.4, 2006, pp 92-93
  5. ^ Charles Green, ‘Pinacotheca: A Private Art History’, Art and Australia, vol. 34, no. 4, 1997, pp 484-489.
  6. ^ Haese, Richard; Brown, Mike, 1938-1997 (artist) (2011). Permanent revolution : Mike Brown and the Australian avant-garde 1953-1997. Miegunyah Press. ISBN 978-0-522-86080-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ Green, Charles (1997-03-22), "Pinacotheca: a private art history. (art gallery, Melbourne, Australia)", Art and Australia, v34 (n4), Art and Australia Pty. Ltd: 484(6), ISSN 0004-301X
  8. ^ a b "Ti Parks recent work at Pinacotheca". Artlink Magazine. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
  9. ^ "Finding the Field". nattysolo. 2018-04-11. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  10. ^ "Kiffy Rubbo: Curating the 1970s". Art Guide Australia. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  11. ^ Gascoigne, Rosalie (1930), Papers of Rosalie Gascoigne, 1930-2011
  12. ^ "A shocking kind of beauty". The Canberra Times. Vol. 61, , no. 18, 922. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 25 July 1987. p. 16. Retrieved 23 July 2019 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  13. ^ Patrick McCaughey, ‘Review: His Brilliance Breaks Edwardian Cocoon’, The Age, 16 August 1972, p. 2.
  14. ^ Alan McCulloch, ‘Everything or Perhaps Nothing’, The Herald, 9 August 1972, p. 25
  15. ^ a b David Homewood 'RR/SK: Public Exhibition'. In Hughes, Helen (publisher) (2011), Discipline, Helen Hughes, ISSN 1839-082X
  16. ^ Galbally, A., ‘A reward from the minimum’ in The Age, Melbourne, 2 September 1970
  17. ^ a b c "Pinacotheca (c. 1971) issue 1, edited by Robert Rooney, published by Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne (c. 1971)". Retrieved July 24, 2019. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  18. ^ "John Nixon". hamishmckay.co.nz. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  19. ^ "Jim Paterson, National Portrait Gallery". www.portrait.gov.au. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  20. ^ Hunter, Robert; Devery, Jane; National Gallery of Victoria (issuing body) (2018), Robert Hunter, National Gallery of Victoria, ISBN 978-1-925432-49-7
  21. ^ Ray Hughes Gallery (Brisbane, Qld.); Pinacotheca Art Gallery (Richmond, Vic.) (1981). Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane, 4th - 18th April, 1981 at Pinacotheca.
  22. ^ a b c d e f Clayden, J (1989-05-17), Art from elsewhere, retrieved 24 July 2019
  23. ^ 'Three designers: Biltmoderne at Pinacotheca: Architecture, Interiors, Furniture'. In Studio International. Studio Trust. 1986.
  24. ^ "Colour Sensation". Heide Museum of Modern Art. 2015-08-10. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  25. ^ National Library of Australia, Australian national bibliography : ANB, National Library of Australia
  26. ^ "Andrew Taylor - Pollination 2016". Issuu. Retrieved 2019-07-24.

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