Perimeter Editions x Daniel Boyd

Daniel Boyd Book Launch

Wednesday 19th August, 6.00 — 8.00pm
Station, 9 Ellis Street
South Yarra, VIC 3141

Perimeter and Station are extremely proud to announce the launch of Daniel Boyd's debut publication The Law of Closure, published by Perimeter Editions.

The majority of discussions surrounding Sydney-based artist Daniel Boyd’s particular iteration of postcolonialist history painting, video and installation work have centred on the idea of the deletion of information and history, especially in relation to Boyd’s Aboriginal and Vanuatuan heritage. But there is far more to his distinctive pointillist technique, in which he blackens much of the painted surface to leave only a sea of “lenses” that reveal the information beneath, than a simple rumination on erasure. It is no sleight of hand that The Law of Closure, the first book tracing Boyd’s oeuvre, is titled after a Gestalt law. Boyd’s devices are not just about absence, but a kind of psychohistorical ellipsis. The dark matter that enshrouds the flashes of perceptual detail in his works is as much an element of the image as are the landscapes, portraits, reflections and refractions of light that lie amidst and beneath it.

Daniel Boyd has shown in major institutions and exhibitions throughout Australia, the UK and Europe, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney), National Gallery of Australia (Canberra), Natural History Museum London, Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, the Museu Picasso (Barcelona) and the 2015 Venice Biennale.

Signed copies available on the night.

LAUNCH
August 19, 6-8pm
Station Gallery
9 Ellis Street, South Yarra
Victoria, Australia