Solid Gold: Artists from Paradise
Curated Group Exhibition/ Dates: (8 May-4 July 2021) / Venue: HOTA Home of the Arts, Main Gallery 1
HOTA Gallery grand opening night, Saturday, 8th May 2021- launching exhibition Solid Gold: Artists from Paradise
Exhibition Statement
The new HOTA Gallery’s first-ever major exhibition premieres new works indoors and out, celebrating the diversity, richness, and ambition of the Gold Coast. The exhibition features a variety of art forms including sculpture, weaving, textiles, ceramics, painting, photography, video, and installation. And with works presented in Gallery 1, around the public spaces of the Gallery, and outdoors – we’re bursting with great art around every corner.
The artists remind us of the beauty of the landscape, capturing it through a local lens. In a city that is ever developing, they also examine our sometimes fraught relationship with nature and, optimistically, they show us how as individuals how we might relate more harmoniously to this wonderful world around us. Solid Gold was curated following a call-out seeking 19 of the best and brightest visual artists with strong ties to the Gold Coast and showcased the thriving (and growing) creative wealth of the region.
- Exhibition blurb text courtesy of HOTA, Home of the Arts, 2021
Ali Bezer, I can hear water, 2021. 70 lengths of hand coloured and crumpled aluminium (each length 10 meters), coated in bitumen, sand and paint. Dimensions 8 meters x 6 meters. Floor based installation artwork created for Solid Gold: Artist from Paradise, HOTA, gallery 1. Photo; Ali Bezer.
“The nature of sound is such that when the ears become accustomed to it, it becomes in time inaudible… If we think of the noise of the works of the whole Universe which is continually going on, the noise of a factory in comparison to it would not be even as a drop compared with the ocean, and man never hears it. When sailing in a ship, at the beginning the noise becomes unbearable to the unaccustomed ears, but as one goes on hearing it the ears become so accustomed to it in time that man never notices it…The continuous noise is now no longer audible unless we stop, to pay attention to it.”
Githas: Esotericism 8, Contemplation of the Inner Voice