Site Works: Second Series 2011 by Stephen Bambury

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Site Works: Second Series 2011

Site Works: Second Series 2011

Artist

Stephen Bambury
Production Date

2011
Medium

acrylic on 21 aluminium panels, wooden brackets and paper template for installation
Size

2500 x 3950 mm
Credit

Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2011
Accession Number

C2011/1/15/1
Accession Date

07 Jul 2011
Department

New Zealand Art
Classification

Installation
Collection

Chartwell
Description

Stephen Bambury’s Site Works: Second Series, 2011 is a wall installation that pays tribute to Kazimir Malevich’s 0, 10 exhibition at Marsovo Pole in Petrograd during the winter of 1915–16. With that project, Malevich introduced artists to Russian Suprematism, whose geometric abstraction uses circles, squares, lines and rectangles while employing few colours.

Bambury’s 21 black panels mirror the layout of Malevich’s 0, 10 paintings, as is apparent from the adjacent period photograph. Bambury is intrigued by how the movement in Malevich’s geometric paintings reveals how very simple forms can pulse forwards and back in space.