REAL WORLDS : DOBELL DRAWING BIENNIAL
ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES | 2020-2021
’Human yearning for utopias lies at the heart of the drawings of Becc Ország. Utilising found landscapes sourced from the internet that she reworks in intricate graphite drawings, Ország echoes the aesthetic of 19th-century engravings and the Romantic sublime. Yet her landscapes are deliberately anonymous, manipulated into mirror-image Rorschachs or studded with gold leaf and drawn symbols, to make them at once familiar yet strange.
Antique heads in chipped marble hover — disembodied, obscure monuments to discarded gods, damaged exemplars of divine perfection from civilisations whose antiquity is dwarfed by the enduring landscapes of fern, water and earth. Within a vast expanse of time, the capacity for humans to find spaces for the sacred remains an enduring impulse.’
- Excerpt by Anne Ryan, Curator Australian Art AGNSW in ‘Real Worlds’, LOOK Art Gallery Society of New South Wales, Sep-Oct 2020.
This exhibition is supported by the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation
Artwork Details:
FANTASY OF VIRTUE / ALL THINGS AND NOTHING 2018-2020
Graphite pencil and 24kt gold leaf on Fabriano watercolour paper in bespoke frames
331.5 x 85.7cm (triptych made up of three frames)
Collection of The Art Gallery of New South Wales
