Four new exhibitions open at Linden - St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts on Thursday 14 March 2002 at 6pm

Cathy Laudenbach's Hill End Interiors (Gallery One) questions the impact of documentary photography on the collective memory. This series of interiors, taken during Cathy's residency at Hill End, a nineteenth gold mining town, become settings for historical and sociological investigations of memory and suggest a simultanaety of Australia's past and present.

Submerging by James Bolton is an installation of expressive abstract panels, extending from the ceiling onto the floor, which play upon the situational lighting and architecture of Gallery Two. The natural fluctuation of light emphasises light active functions of the graphite surfaces, creating an atmosphere of engagement and contemplation.

In Gallery Three, William Boot's, Green and Grey is an exploration of encaustic painting that focuses on the formal and chromatic relationship possibilities between green and grey.

The (Im)Possibility of Depicting Our Being by James Ratsasane, in Gallery Four is an exhibition of paintings and drawings which explores the art of depiction, its problematic struggle between 'pictorial consciousness' and actuality, and the relevance of representational art in contemporary practice.

All exhibitions continue until Sunday 7 April 2002
Gallery hours are: Tuesday - Sunday 1.00pm - 6.00pm

For further information and/or images please contact Jan Duffy on +61 (0)3 9209 6794 or email admin@lindenarts.org

FROM THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC TO THE GLOBAL CITY

A talk by Norbert Loeffler, Lecturer in Art History, Victorian College of the Arts

6.30pm Thursday 28 March 2002

Linden - St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts
26 Acland Street, St Kilda
Cost: $10
(includes refreshments)
bookings essential, ph 9209 6794 or email admin@lindenarts.org

It has been suggested that Berlin is a prism through which one can examine the place and meaning of contemporary art, architecture and urban design in our cities.

Berlin has also been a site for intense debate about how a traumatic history can be negotiated and what forms a culture of memory can take.

Norbert Loeffler has lived and travelled extensively in Germany. He will draw on his recent tour to review the art and culture of Berlin with an emphasis on developments after 1989.

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