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The Laverty Collection: Contemporary Australian Art

Lot 226

Aida Tomescu
(born 1955)
Alb 1, 2002

24 March 2013, 14:00 AEDT

Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art

Sold for AU$7,930 inc. premium

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Aida Tomescu (born 1955)

Alb 1, 2002
signed with initials and dated 'ACT '02' lower right
mixed media and collage on paper
120 x 90cm (47 1/4 x 35 7/16in).

Footnotes

PROVENANCE:
Purchased from Niagara Galleries, Melbourne in September 2003

EXHIBITED:
Aida Tomescu, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 5-30 August 2003, cat. no. 7
Aida Tomescu: Paintings and Drawings, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, 1 October - 8 November 2009

LITERATURE:
Aida Tomescu, exh. cat., Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 2003, cat. no. 7, p.14 (illus.)

[Aida Tomescu] turned to working with collage as a way of freeing herself up. 'Changing material helped. Tearing the paper and not worrying about the edges. I began ripping bits of paper and also stapling unstretched canvas onto the wall. I was able to allow the edges of the canvas to participate in the making
of the image without closing it in. I began re-working old paintings. It was a way of breaking out of being a captive of previous habits'. Keeping things ﬂ uid, layered and evolving have been constants in Tomescu's use of mixed media and collage from those formative days through to works like Alb 1-111 2002. Here the restricted palette and richness of materials and gestures suggest an uncanny sense of something old, accumulated over time, and something fresh and vital in the present.

Deborah Hart, "Aida Tomescu: States of Becoming", in Aida Tomescu, exhibition catalogue, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, 2009, p.11.

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