CAMOUFLAGE #2, 2003

Modern + Contemporary Art
Melbourne
13 June 2018
19

GORDON BENNETT

(1955 – 2014)
CAMOUFLAGE #2, 2003

synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

182.5 x 152.0 cm

signed, dated and inscribed with title verso: G Bennett 23-2-2003 / “CAMOUFLAGE #2” / …

Estimate: 
$40,000 – 60,000
Provenance

Sherman Galleries, Sydney (stamped verso)
Gene and Brian Sherman, Sydney

Exhibited

Figure/Ground (Zero), Sherman Galleries, Sydney, 17 July – 9 August 2003, cat. 2 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)
Disobedience, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 8 September – 15 October 2005
Gordon Bennett, a survey, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 6 September 2007 – 16 January 2008 and touring Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 10 May – 3 August 2008, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 20 December 2008 – 22 March 2009 (label attached verso)

Literature

Hill, P., ‘Zero Hour’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 2 August 2003
McLean, I., ‘Camouflage’, Figure/Ground (Zero) exhibition catalogue, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, 17 July – 9 August 2003
Murray-Cree, L. (ed.), Twenty. Sherman Galleries 1986 – 2006, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2006, p. 122 (illus. installation)
Gellatly, K., Gordon Bennett: A Survey, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2007, pl. 63, n.p. (illus.)

Catalogue text

Gordon Bennett lived and worked in Brisbane

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2016 – 2018 Be Polite. Gordon Bennett, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
2017 The National 2017, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2014 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Museen Dahlem, Berlin, Germany
2012 Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany
2008 16th Biennale of Sydney: Revolutions – forms that turn, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2007 Gordon Bennett: A Survey, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and touring to Queensland
Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2005 International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Prague, National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic
2004 – 2005 Three Colours, Gordon Bennett and Peter Robinson, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria, touring exhibition
1999 History and Memory in the Art of Gordon Bennett, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane and touring in UK and Norway
1995 Transculture, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Venice Biennale, Italy touring to Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Japan
1992 9th Biennale of Sydney: The Boundary Rider, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1989 Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

SELECTED LITERATURE
Hughes, H., (et al.) Be Polite, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane and Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2017
Smith, T., History and Memory in the Art of Gordon Bennett, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Olso, 1999
McLean, I., and Bennett, G., The Art of Gordon Bennett, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1996
Butler, R., Gordon Bennett: paintings 1987 – 1991, Epernay Cedex, France, 1992

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
TATE Modern, London, United Kingdom

REPRESENTED BY
Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Milani Gallery, Brisbane