The next best thing to nothingness…

Daniel McKewan, Kafka on the shore (installation view), 2014, gypsum and acrylic polymer, 245 x 91 x 10 cm. QUT Art Collection.

“Less than: Art and Reductionism” was drawn from the QUT Art Museum collection and this commissioned preview from Art Guide (Issue 106, Mar-Apr 2017) explored curator Katherine Dionysius’s interests in the reductionist aesthetic, her interest in the paring back of an aesthetic, “the artist’s pursuit of the next best thing to nothingness”.  The article in full:

Art Guide_Issue 106_March-April 2017