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Arte Laguna Prize

Finalist Exhibition 18th Edition

Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy

November 16 – December 8, 2024

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Karma Barnes's installation 'Co-Lapses' has been selected as one of the 120 finalists in the Arte Laguna Prize amongst 10,000 international entrants. The work is set to be exhibited in the large-scale finalist exhibition at the Venice Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy from 16 November to 8 December 2024.

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RELATIVE TERRAINS 2023
Lismore Regional Offsite Gallery
Hosted by Grafton Regional Gallery
16 Sept - 12 Nov 2023

 

Karma Barnes and Robért Franken

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The Relative Terrains exhibition was scheduled for January 2023 at the Lismore Regional Gallery but with the heartbreaking damage to the gallery during the devastating floods earlier this year the Grafton Regional Gallery has snapped up the opportunity to house the show along with a number of other displaced exhibitions.

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Relative Terrains maps the dramatic shifts in our environmental cycles and how this informs our internal and external experiences. The work traverses the geological terrain and volcanic landscapes of the Northern Rivers and explores how we, the inhabitants of the land, form and change with the forces of the elements, time and life experiences. The exhibition artworks will include a series of large-scale installations and suspended paintings produced in a range of mediums including local pigments.

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Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia

Exhibition 16 September – 12 November 2023

Public Program 17 August Lismore Regional Gallery

Public Program 7 October Grafton Regional Gallery

 

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WILD PIGMENT PROJECT

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curated by Tilke Elkins
 

New Mexico State University Art Museum,

Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA 2023

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Form & Concept, Santa Fe,

New Mexico, USA 2022.

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Our human experience is composed of compounded responses. The artwork draws parallels between our relationships with each other and our connection to place. Compounded Caldera is a moment in time where bush fires, droughts, floods and an ongoing pandemic have ravaged our community in Northern New South Wales, Australia with little moment to exhale a breath before the next pressing moments of concerns take centre stage. The impacts of climate change have moved from subtle shifts and perturbations towards more obvious and compounding climatic events.

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Form & Concept,

September 17 to December 23, 2022

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NMSU Art Museum 

Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA

June 22-September 16, 2023.

Tocca La Terra
Imagine the Land Project


MA
CRO Asilo
Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, Italy.

The Environmental and Participatory Art Installation Projects recent colossal size works from soils and pigments of Rome at the MACRO Asilo, Contemporary Art Gallery of Rome, Italy.

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Imagine the Land Project collaborators Karma Barnes and Ekarasa Doblanovich were invited by curator Giorgio de Finis to exhibit their installation Tocca La Terra as part of the MACRO Asilo (“Hospitable  Museum”) Project. Tocca la Terra (Touch the Earth). The work was created in collaboration with viewers at the MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, Italy.

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Tocca la Terra was composed from Italian local soils, hand-gathered by Barnes and Doblanovic from the regional landscapes of Rome and Tuscany. These soils were ground by the artists into fine pigments and transformed into a 18m long art installation, filling one of the MACRO exhibition halls.

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