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Imants Tillers: Home Visitation III
Home Visitation III
The Artist
Imants Tillers was born in Sydney in 1950; a first generation Australian to parents that immigrated from Latvia following World War Two. He studied architecture at Sydney University, graduating in 1973. In 1969 he was one of Christo's assistants on Wrapped Coast in Sydney (Little Bay, Sydney which for the time was the largest installation art-work in the World) and held his first solo exhibition in 1973. Since then he has exhibited widely and his works are featured internationally including at the Guggenheim, Oxy Gallery, Osaka, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, City Gallery, Wellington, the Diaspora National Art Museum, Riga, and represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 1986. Imants Tillers is also represented closer to home with works of art in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, The Art Gallery of NSW and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Tillers lives and works in Cooma.
The Work of Art
The work of art, Home Visitation III, Acrylic and gouache on 16 canvas boards 101 by 142 cms, was first exhibited at the Chapman Gallery between August and September 1999. Home Visitation III is typical of Tiller's style which is very distinctive with his use of individual words and phrases that seem disjointed and out of place on a mosaic grid which adds to an overall montage effect. Previously Tiller's works like many other post-modern artists of the 1980s appropriated phrases and words directly from art history in a cheeky mixture of plagiarism and pastiche but Tillers has moved away from this towards more regional issues. The use of words such as chance, destiny, reversible and phrases such as 'today is today' suggests a mock spiritual dimension that some have taken as a form of environmentalism. It may in fact be just the artist commentating on topics of the time that given his views were adding a sense of irony to his works.
Perhaps because of Tillers' particular style with his work, 'Avenue of Remembrance', 2014, that this work was chosen by the Director of the Australian Tapestry Workshop, Antonia Syme and the Australian War Memorial Director, Dr Brendan Nelson for the design of a commemorative tapestry to mark the centenary of the First World War. The Avenue of Remembrance is reminiscent of many of the wartime roads on the Western Front. Layered over the top of the painted boards are names of the many places where Australians fought and were buried and, phrases taken from the Gallipoli letter written by Keith Murdoch to Prime Minister Andrew Fisher, which helped to end the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915.
If you like this work, you may be interested in works of art by other artists in the collection such as Brenda Croft. You may also be interested in how words are used in works of art to good effect and create moments of humour such as Keith Tyson, winner of the Tate, Turner Prize in 2002.
References:
Chapman Gallery: Imants Tillers Home Visitation, August 1999.
Cousins, Kerry-Anne, Home Visitation by Imants Tillers Chapman Gallery article.
Dutkiewicz Adam, Democartic Success, The Advertiser, 14 April, 1999.
Genocchio Benjamin, Grid tease from the Tillers Man, The Australian, 4 June 1999.
Australian War Memorial, https://www.awm.gov.au/1914-1918/commemorative-tapestry/ 2017.