National tour of artist Ross Manning visits Lismore Regional Gallery
FANS, FLUORESCENT tubes, and overhead projectors are repurposed to create exquisite interplays of light and sound for the national tour of Ross Manning’s Dissonant Rhythms visiting Lismore Regional Gallery in April.
Audiences will experience mesmerising encounters with light, movement, and sound scored by carefully manipulated technologies during the internationally acclaimed artist’s Australian tour.
Dissonant Rhythms is the Brisbane-based artist and musician’s first ever survey exhibition, which premiered at the IMA in 2017.
This exhibition had the launch of Manning’s first monograph, published by the IMA, and the accompanying LP Reflex in Waves, released by IMA and Room40.
Receiving significant acclaim, Manning recently unveiled a major new commission at Carriageworks in Sydney (2016), presented new work at the Shanghai Biennale (2016), and was featured in MCA’S Primavera (2009).
Over the past decade, Manning has developed what could be described as his own world, animated by light and sound. Combining choreographed mechanical movements with gravity, friction, and chance, Manning’s works mix sonic and luminous landscapes.
Consuming all manner of household and industrial objects, hardware, and technologies, Manning’s practice uses light, sound, and motion to colonise nearly every surface and wavelength in its vicinity.
Dissonant Rhythms was curated by IMA’S Directors Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh, and Assistant Director Madeleine King.
“He is an obsessive creator of systems that are driven by their own logic, and of moving objects propelled by electricity and their own kinetic forces.
“Manning manages to be analytical and systemsoriented as well as playful and lyrical in his assemblages. A domestic fan becomes a propeller for a swinging mobile of coloured light in one work, and animates a rotating spiral of string in another,” King said.
The exhibition is on at Lismore Regional Gallery from April 25 until June 14.