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Contemporary painter in the spotlight

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Nov 5, 2024

This Friday, Benalla Art Gallery will launch a major exhibition exploring the precise and incisive practice of leading Australian contemporary painter, Juan Ford.

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Juan Ford: A Survey has been curated by Vincent Alessi, and presents 20 years of Ford’s practice, revealing the key conceptual questions with which he has engaged and which over time have manifested in more complex, refined and mature ways.

It is an exhibition that reveals the trajectory of Ford’s thinking, technical virtuosity and visual language, and the new ways Ford has developed to speak with his audience about concerns which have always interested him.

“The exhibition celebrates one of this country’s most accomplished painters, not solely owing to his technical brilliance but more so because of his commitment to engage with questions that are incredibly contemporary, pressing and central to who we are, what we might be, and where we are going,” Dr Alessi said.

The exhibition will launch to the public at 6pm on Friday, November 8, and Ford will also present an artist talk as part of the gallery’s First Mondays program, at 10am on Monday, December 2.

Juan Ford: A Survey will continue until January 26.