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Gonfiare zenzero prenone
(1992)

Medium
chalk on blackboard

Measurements
122.3 × 91.5 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Irene Sutton through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2009
© Diena Georgetti

Gallery location
Not on display

 

About this work

Diena Georgetti exhibited a large number of her blackboard paintings in the 1992 Biennale of Sydney. They are among her earliest works and are rough, raw and apparently spontaneous – evident in the messily scrawled text in chalk on blackboard. Containing foreign-sounding words that are not quite grammatically correct, the compositions are deliberately unintelligible but visually striking. The format not only suggests a teaching environment or class room but also recalls the esoteric blackboard drawings of Joseph Beuys and Rudolph Steiner, which proposed alternative ways of making sense of language and non-language.

Artwork Details

Accession Number
2009.203

Department
Contemporary Art

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