Exhibition | Time of the Signs – Henri van Noordenburg

FREE ADMISSION | GALLERY OPEN: Wednesday to Sunday 10.30am – 3.30pm | Closed Monday, Tuesday & Public Holidays

Meanjin/ Brisbane based artist Henri van Noordenburg’s practice has always been strongly informed by rich histories of the Dutch Golden Age with a focus on the heavy symbolism therein.

Time of the Signs is carved into being with ritualistic fervour while listening almost solely to pop-minimalist arrangements of Max Richter’s Exiles album.

Matching tensions and undulations of Exiles’ musical structure with a freer style of expressive gestural strokes, van Noordenburg becomes a conduit for revelation with each surface scrape.
Quick. Definite. Sure.

An atmospheric quality, strong in contrast of light and dark, gives great prominence to the sky and the ocean, as impressive cloud formations morph into vast emotive bodies of water.

Similar to the sgraffito process, this practice of reduction reveals fragile layers beneath each surface - a fitting metaphor for our own vulnerability.

Join us 5.30pm Friday 23 August 2024 for the Openings of the POSTWORLD, Time of the Signs by Henri van Noordenburg & Carnival Queens
Bookings are essential | Phone 131 872 or Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to book your place
RSVP Wednesday 21 August

Join us 5:30pm Thursday 19 September for a Twilight Tour of Time of the Signs.
Free event | All welcome | Bookings essential | Phone 131 872 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to book your place. RSVP Tuesday 17 September.

Exhibition on display 3 August - 13 October 2024.

Wednesday 11 September - Sunday 26 September | Gallery open daily 10.30am – 3.30pm
Usual Gallery opening hours (and for remainder of Carnival period) | 10.30am - 3.30pm Wednesday – Sunday

Image: Henri VAN NOORDENBURG / Netherlands / Australia b. 1967 / Composition LXXX 2021 - 2023 / ink on Hahnemühle paper, hand carved / 100 x 220cm / © Henri van Noordenburg