INTERNATIONALLY renowned Australian contemporary artist Imants Tillers’ latest exhibition Philosophy of Doubt is on show at the Riddoch Art Gallery.
Widely considered one of Australia’s most prominent and thought provoking contemporary artists, Tillers uses appropriated imagery and text as part of his work.
“Tillers presents a substantial body of 17 huge paintings, created from hundreds of canvas boards,” gallery director Dr Melentie Pandilovski said.
“The paintings are abundant with fragments of borrowed images, words, phrases, names, place, locality and identity.
“Tillers’ Latvian heritage and diasporic experiences, relationships, topology and space all inform his works.”
Prepared in collaboration with GAG Projects (Adelaide, Berlin), Philosophy of Doubt represents a new body of work by Tillers which attempts to find common ground between contemporary Western Desert painting and the metaphysical paintings of the 20th century Italian master Giorgio de Chirico.
Tillers has exhibited widely since the late 1960s and has represented Australia at important international exhibitions such as Documenta in Kassel, the Venice Biennale and PS1 in New York.
Imants Tillers will be present at the gallery on opening night from 6pm on February 23 and will conduct a tour and artist talk.
The exhibition is on show until March 11.
