Mira Gojak &
Tomislav Nikolic.
day01. is delighted to present the final exhibition for 2024 with a project featuring new work by Mira Gojak and Tomislav Nikolic.
At the centre of the exhibition is a site specific piece by Gojak, a sculpture poised to perform as a drawing in space, constructed from malleable metal bands wound with coloured yarn. Curved and bulbous shapes that offer vestigial remnants of her mother’s breath, a layered personal trope that Mira continues to explore.
Elsewhere in the room, Nikolic takes us on a new journey with his ongoing series ‘Vestiges of Now’. Often we see the series presented in his groupings of seven, for this occasion we present two singular works, titled XI and XII. Aligning us once again with Nikolic’s fascination for one of the masters, Camille Pissarro and his desire to ‘paint the essential character of things’, with a palette that subtly conveys the atmosphere. In this instance Pissarro’s view from his apartment window on the Île de la Cité as it spans the Seine, over to the Musée du Louvre.
Tomislav’s fervent respect for history and looking back offers a re-emergence of experience and new sensations. ‘vestige of now, xii’, conveys a delicate caress of interior pigments, a hint of Eau de Nil perhaps, to journey across the accrual of increased chromatic intensity, reaching a crescendo to include the frame and concludes with a glowing hue pulsating through the wall.
The exhibition also includes two gentle and poetic pieces from Mira’s highly acclaimed series previously shown at Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne titled ‘Cutting through the vast plain of day’, 2018. A pair of photographs of the desert sky, variously perforated and folded. Shot on the same spot at intervals over the course of a single day, capturing the gradations of the blue sky from sunrise to sunset. Alluding to the passage of time and Mira’s ongoing interest and associations with the infinite by featuring the most continuous thing she can think of ‘the sky’.
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Tomislav Nikolic, courtesy of the artist and Fox Jensen Gallery.
Mira Gojak, courtesy of the artist and day01. Gallery.
Archaic Cooings.
2 November –– 7 December, 2024
Tomislav Nikolicvestige of now, xii, 2023 - 2024
synthetic polymer, marble dust, 16.9ct lemon gold leaf, 19ct Caplain gold leaf, copper leaf, on linen and wood
26.8 x 32.2 x 4.2 cm
Tomislav Nikolicvestige of now, xii, 2023 - 2024
synthetic polymer, marble dust, 16.9ct lemon gold leaf, 19ct Caplain gold leaf, copper leaf, on linen and wood
26.8 x 32.2 x 4.2 cm
Tomislav Nikolic
vestige of now, xi, 2023-2024
synthetic polymer, marble dust, 16.9cm lemon, gold leaf, museum glass on linen and wood
59 x 51 x 11 cm
Tomislav Nikolic
vestige of now, xi, 2023-2024
synthetic polymer, marble dust, 16.9cm lemon, gold leaf, museum glass on linen and wood
59 x 51 x 11 cm
Tomislav Nikolic
vestige of now, xi, 2023-2024
synthetic polymer, marble dust, 16.9cm lemon, gold leaf, museum glass on linen and wood
59 x 51 x 11 cm
Mira Gojak
Burden of air, 2024
steel, copper, aluminium, wood and wool
Variable size
Mira Gojak
Burden of air, 2024 (detail)
Mira Gojak
Burden of air, 2024 (detail)
Mira Gojak
Cutting through the vast plain of day, 4:35, 2018, Alice Springs, 2018
archival pigment print construction
103.5 x 83.5 x 6 cm
