{"title":"The Play Group Artist Series","description":"The Artist series. are square jigsaw puzzles of 1024 pieces created in collaboration with three acclaimed female artists Ulla Von Brandenburg, Hilarie Mais and Gemma Smith. As reproductions these objects of play invite an engagement with the conceptual proposals of each of the artists' practices, providing an entry point to a deeper understanding of the ideas explored in contemporary art.","products":[{"product_id":"gemma-smith","title":"Gemma Smith","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\u003cem\u003eEleven\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColour is both subject \u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e content in \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.gemma-smith.com\/\" title=\"Gemma Smith\"\u003eGemma Smith\u003c\/a\u003e’s luminous paintings, which revel in the interaction of intense pigments. Nuanced arrangements of calibrated primaries pull and push the picture plane. Smith’s palette has reached to the extremes of the chromatic scale in works such as \u003cem\u003eEleven\u003c\/em\u003e, which are loaded with titanium white, exacting their colour play at the palest end of the spectrum. She talks of making a painting where the colours are still active but almost indiscernible, emulating the phenomena of retinal burn after looking at one of her more high-key compositions.----\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReproduced as a jigsaw puzzle the act of recomposing the image challenges and confirms our ability to recognise colour even at the very threshold of perception.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGemma Smith is a visual artist based in Sydney, Australia. Smith’s work is held in many private, state and national collections including The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney;  The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney;  Queensland Art Gallery \/ Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Her work is represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery Sydney; Milani Gallery, Brisbane; and Starkwhite Gallery New Zealand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAssembled dimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 635mm x 635mm\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMade in China\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jacky Winter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36741614600345,"sku":"TPG_GEMMAS","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0420\/5176\/4377\/products\/PuzzlePlay_Buttons.jpg?v=1604638831"},{"product_id":"hilarie-mais-1","title":"Hilarie Mais","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\u003cem\u003eTempus 6\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA jigsaw compels us to spend time with an image, an analysis of observation searching for structures, patterns and other visual clues to be able to solve the puzzle. The \u003cem\u003eTempus\u003c\/em\u003e series of paintings by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hilarie_Mais\" title=\"Hilarie Mais\"\u003eHilarie Mais\u003c\/a\u003e, although systematic in approach, undermine any sense of order, they obey a series of rules but are organic and allow for a fluidity of random occurrences. Mais’ painting \u003cem\u003eTempus 6\u003c\/em\u003e is an exploration of the intersection of the grid (square) and spiral (circle) geometric systems. The reproduction of the work as a jigsaw introduces another grid system in the puzzle dieline that dissects the image into fragments, creating a puzzle of exceeding difficulty.----\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHilarie Mais has lived and worked in London, New York and Sydney, her work reflects a long and deeply realized passion for the grid, the central trope of modernist art. She has held thirty three solo exhibitions, been included in more than one hundred group exhibitions in Australia, the USA,UK, Asia and Europe, as well as three retrospective survey exhibitions of her works at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Victoria ,the ANU Drill Hall University Gallery, Canberra and the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide,. Mais' works are included in the collections of the Australian National Gallery, all State Galleries, numerous Regional Gallery collections, as well as corporate and private collections in Australia and internationally. She is represented by KRONENBERG MAIS WRIGHT in Sydney.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAssembled dimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 635mm x 635mm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMade in China\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jacky Winter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36741625708697,"sku":"TPG_HILARIE","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0420\/5176\/4377\/products\/PuzzlePlay_Buttons2.jpg?v=1603341893"},{"product_id":"ulla-von-brandenburg","title":"Ulla Von Brandenburg","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\u003cem\u003eDas Was Ist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.palaisdetokyo.com\/en\/event\/ulla-von-brandenburg\"\u003eUlla von Brandenburg\u003c\/a\u003e’s distinct visual language draws on the traditions and tropes of theatre, the stage and colour theory. Her work \u003cem\u003eDas Was Ist (That Which Is)\u003c\/em\u003e is a series of curtains with circular holes installed in the entrance to the Palais de Tokyo in Paris as a part of her solo exhibition Le Milieu est Bleu.----\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"…the coloured curtains are a reference to theatrical history, but they can also be associated with the history of monochrome painting, or Brazilian art of the 1960s (…) The pierced curtains become a metaphor for photographic optics and the making of a frame…” (Laure Fernandez)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReproducing this physical installation piece translates the work into a series graphically flat circles with hard borders between signature colour juxtapositions that create multiple non concentric edge-like puzzle pieces when played.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUlla von Brandenburg is a Paris based German artist whose work is characterised by a diversity of means and media such as installations, films, watercolours, murals, collages, performances… that answer to one another and which she stages according to different exhibition spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer internationally recognised work has appeared in numerous solo shows including the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Her works are included in such prestigious collections as the Tate Modern in London, the MAMCO in Geneva, the and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. 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