CHELSEA LEHMANN
MISE EN SCENE
19 Oct – 13 Nov 2011
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- Chelsea Lehmann, “Aftermath (hung on nail, sopport with three copper pins)”, 2011, oil on copper, 4cm diameter
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- Chelsea Lehmann, “Carafe en cuivre (hang on nail)”, 2011, oil and wax on board, 14 x 21cm
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- Chelsea Lehmann, “Compagnie (en place) (detail) pin with copper pins”, 2011, biro on paper, 12.5 x 21
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- Chelsea Lehmann, “Compagnie”, 2010, Oil on board, 20x 28.5cm
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- Chelsea Lehmann, “Counterintuitive (hang on nail)”, 2011, Oil on wood (Plate), 28.5cm diameter
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- Chelsea Lehmann, “Début (after Fragonard)”, 2011, oil on primed paper, 18x 25cm
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- Chelsea Lehmann, “Elective Affinities 1 (after Goya) Collaboration with Jo Neville (frame)”, 2011 pen on cardboard with cardboard frame, 31x 31cm (including frame)
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- Chelsea Lehmann, “Elective Affinities 2 (after Goya) Collaboration with Jo Neville (frame)”, 2011 pen on cardboard with cardboard frame, 31x 31cm (including frame)
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- Chelsea Lehmann, “Endure (hung in nail, support with 3 copper pins)”, oil on copper, 4cm diameter
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- Chelsea Lehmann, “La Crise (hang with copper nail & extend strap above)”, 2011, oil on leather, various dimensions
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- Chelsea Lehmann, “La Robe Jaune (etude)”, 2011, Oil on primed paper, 11 x 9.5cm
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- Chelsea Lehmann, “Rosette 1 (stick with blutac)”, 2011, oil on copper with paper frame, 15cm diameter
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- Chelsea Lehmann, “Rosette 2 (stick with blutac)”, 2011, oil on copper with paper frame, 15cm diameter
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- Chelsea Lehmann, “The dog room (en place)”, 2011, Oil on linen, 25x 22.5cm
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- Chelsea Lehmann, “The dog room (detail) pin with copper pins”, 2010, biro on paper, 12.5x 21cm,
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- Chelsea Lehmann, “The wolf room (detail) pin with copper pins”, 2010, biro/graphite on paper, 12.5x 21cm
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- Installation view of “Mise en scene” at GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide.
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- Installation view of “Mise en scene” at GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide.
CHELSEA LEHMANN | Mise en Scène
Artist Statement, 2011
These works are the result of a project that involved working from a life model in the interiors of two Paris museums in the Marais district: principally, the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (a private museum of hunting and nature)and the Musée Carnavalet, whichis devoted to the history of Paris from its origins to recent times.
A naked figure in a museum interior is a meeting of worlds: the out-of-context collected, the time capsule furnishings, the interiority of the mind (private) inside the exterior body (public) and all of them in various composed relationships. This three-way interchange fuels contradiction, quixotic associations and matter of fact oddities. When painted, the figure is just as inanimate as it’s surroundings, rendering woman and polar bear a credible couplet.
- Chelsea Lehmann
Extract from Rod’s Taylor’s introduction
Chelsea Lehmann very successfully exploits both pictorial space and the act of making (as gesture). They are in fact the basis of her work, providing her with stimulating technical and aesthetic challenges and a rich means to engage with the perceptions and concerns of her reality. Moreover, because such properties are so fundamental to her art form, her explicit concern with them lends her work a valuable durability, a rare authenticity and considerable aesthetic pleasure.
- Rod Taylor AM