Gonfiare zenzero prenone
(1992)
- Medium
- chalk on blackboard
- Measurements
- 122.3 × 91.5 cm
- Accession Number
- 2009.203
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Irene Sutton through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2009
© Diena Georgetti
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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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.
- Subjects (general)
- Abstract Art Literary and Text
- Subjects (specific)
- blackboards monochrome written languages