A Case of Deja Vu
Publication Details
CATALOGUEThomas Hoareau A Case of Deja Vu: Seven Paintings and a Suitcase that Relive Art History in the Everyday catalogue,
A 21 cm x 27 cm, 20 page booklet publication containing a Preface by Daniel Brown and an extensive curatorial essay by Sally Quin about the artist's life and work and full colour images of all works in the exhibition.
$5 plus $3 p & h
EDUCATION KIT
Thomas Hoareau A Case of Deja Vu: Seven Paintings and a Suitcase that Relive Art History in the Everyday
$25 plus $3 p & h
Special Education Members' price:
$20 plus $3 p & h
This exhibition contains a selection of artworks that span three decades. The artworks have been specifically chosen to illustrate the artist's interest in the concept of homage and the way he has returned to this theme at various points throughout his career. In these works he references iconic works from the history of Western Art to articulate contemporary issues.
Outcomes covered: The Arts
Themes: Art History, Appreciation, Post Modernism
Age: Primary and secondary Yr 3-12
Education Notes: 12 pages, A4, full colour, staple bound.
Artwork Cards: 9 full colour analysis and discussion points on each of the artworks
Gallery Sheets: Primary, Middle and Secondary School
Exhibition Details
ORGANISING INSTITUTIONThomas Hoareau
EXHIBITION COORDINATOR
Thomas Hoareau
ARTIST
Thomas Hoareau
MEDIUM
painting
INSTALLATION
8 major works, 2 small studies, photomontage display.
running metres
DOCUMENTATION
Gallery/room sheets
Didactic panel
Media kit with press release, digital images
and acknowledgements
EDUCATION
Catalogue/brochure
Education Package (includes teachers notes,
activity sheets, gallery/room sheet)
Lectures and floor talks upon request (subject to
availability and funding)
CRATES
Up to crates, totalling cubic metres (tbc)
TOUR DURATION
WA (dates tbc)
COST SHARE
WA tba
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Detail of 'The Midland Stonebreakers' Thomas Hoareau (2010) Acrylic on canvas.
In addition to these new paintings, Hoareau presents a series of works dating from the early ninties, that are contemporary re-workings of iconic paintings from the history of Western Art, representing the artist's continued interest in this theme over three decades of his career. The Girl at the Counter of Leabridge Newsagent (1998) is a street-level reworking of Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergere and Northbridge Gothic (1998) presents Grant Wood's American Gothic reworked within a contemporary social milieu.
The exhibition also includes two small black and white studies for two of the major works and a photographic montage comprising a selection of images that were referred to in the production of the paintings.
"Hoareau's work thoughtfully pays homage to past masters but importantly recognises the potential of such complex paintings to be transformed in order to reflect contemporary history and politics, and the artist's own personal convictions. He focuses on the particularity of the settings of Perth and its environments, and extends and diversifies the meanings of the original artworks in this local context."
Sally Quin
Curator, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery,
University of Western Australia.
