In her diary in 1999, Australian artist Katthy Cavaliere wrote: “My mother, a naïve woman, fell pregnant to my father the first time she made love – she was a virgin – I was a mistake.” Cavaliere considered these mistakes, like the typo on her birth certificate, “reality’s black tunnel of nothingness” and they inspired her art.
Throughout her lifetime, the Italian-born Sydney-based artist developed a project packing, storing and transporting the wreckage of her personal possessions and transforming it into art. This retrospective, curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham, looks at Cavaliere’s private life through photographs (her trained medium), video documentation of performance pieces, and everyday things. It presents a portrait of the artist through more than 15 major works from her early to late career.
Type of Event: Art and design
Venue: Museum of Old and New Art
655 Main Rd
Berridale TAS 7011
Date: from 28 November 2015 to 28 March 2016
Price: from $15
Website: Museum of Old and New Art
Telephone: (03) 6277 9900
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