NEW MODERN
RNOP MELBOURNE – THE ROAD PAINTINGS
Co-curator:  Aaron Martin.
Co curator & on-line artist essay: Billy Gruner.
13.06.19 – 29.06.19

The background theme of ‘New Modern’ discourse outlined earlier in a series of closed-door events held at the Saturation Point in London is by literary conceit to best understood as a related matter in the concept development towards Melbourne. Just as the London events similarly featured artists I would consider foundational to one of the fastest growing genres of modern art after the 20thc century. And given that the central aim for each RNOP presentation is to connect people while highlighting shifting differences and aesthetic concerns between the individual participants, there is, in particular, a relating to or, feeling for disparateness ‘historical precedence’, at the same time. From that vantage, there is at least some critical way to begin commenting on how and why so many contemporary divergent voices within contemporary art are reading each other’s practices so carefully, and in great detail within a single genre. Moreover, it is fundamentally critical to note how these often highly trained artists may be contemporaneously utilising and enacting on individual concerns, while simultaneously developing associated styles or sharing art-critical associations on a flattened out platform simultaneously. That is modern work not seen before. Traction.

(extract from Catalogue essay by Billy Gruner – full essay can be downloaded below)

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