Title

Patrick Pound: The museum of holes.

Venues

Castlemaine Art Gallery And Historical Museum (13 March 2015 – 22 March 2015)

Date

(2015)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (VIC).

Web address

https://castlemaineartmuseum.org.au/exhibitions/p…

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

Conjuring up a surprising range of meanings, from the cave to the grave, wishing wells and open-cut mines, portals and punctures, burrows and beehives, Patrick Pound’s The Museum of Holes is an amusing installation. Like a crossword puzzle of things, it emphasises the idea of a hole, rather than the hole, itself. Created from the artist’s own encyclopedic collection, along with artworks and objects from the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, The Museum of Holes is a cabinet of curiosities and a thinking machine that temporarily recasts everything through a single poetic idea.

‘I want to upset the false need for things to be fixed in their meaning. I want them to behave more like words; to give them more flexibility and put them back to work. The collection becomes a thinking machine, a memory machine and a picture puzzle.’

[Patrick Pound, Gallery media, 2015].

Last Updated

06 Sep 2024