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Archibald Prize 2009: finalists « Previous | |Next »
February 26, 2009

It's Archibald Prize time again. The finalists have been announced. The commentary has begun. My personal preference on first viewing is:

YunupinguGGMaestriG.jpg Guy. Maestri, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Archibald Prize finalist, 2009

In The Australian Christopher Allen says that:

Guy Maestri's Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu would also be far more powerful in life size, but then he would have to include the figure, or at least the torso. Composition would then become an issue, instead of being evaded in the close-up head format; but it would also make it a more expressive work.

Maybe. This is a person who lives in visual darkness as he performs his music on stage. So the blackness and harsh light are appropriate. It is a powerful picture as it is.

Anyhow I just like the guy's music:

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 7:40 AM | | Comments (3)
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and so do I. It's very haunting

A very different selection from last years lot.
The Guy Maestri is the only one I would hang in my home so I say that is the stand out winner.
Send the rest to the local school fete.

I'm guite partial to Hugh Jackson's 'Flacco‘s chariot'----its different. More whimsical.