In 1972 Gerhard Richter declared that he was making ‘photography’ by other means, confounding the relationship between painting and photography. Peter Alwast’s exhibition continues his interests in the possibilities of painting by interrogating its relationship to digital media and drawing.
At the heart of Alwast’s recent works are ideas related to translation and the interface between virtual tendencies in the material practice of painting and painterly conventions in media practices. All works in the exhibition are identified by the artist as either painting or drawing and resist simple catergorisation of how painting might be defined.
Gallery 9
6 to 30 May, 2015
Sydney
Writing, 2015, oil on polycotton, 80 x 80cm
Courtesy the artist and Gallery 9, Sydney
