Provenance
Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre, Yirrkala, Northern Territory, cat. no. 3589M
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
Collection of Dennis and Debra Scholl, Miami, acquired from the above
Exhibited
Literature
Luke Scholes (ed.), The Moment Eternal: Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu, Museum and Art
Gallery of the Northern Territory, 2020, pp. 59–72 (illus.)
Description
This painting is sold with accompanying documentation provided by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, reading in part:
“Nyapanyapa Yunupingu's Light Painting 2010-11 is a projection composed from a set of 110 drawings in white paint pen on clear acetates, made at Yirrkala Art Centre between 2010 and 2011. These drawings were scanned into a custom made computer program which uses a logarithm to randomly select three acetates at a time, assigns an opacity to each, then overlays against a second set of three. This process continues at an almost imperceptible rate, and only repeats after several hundred million iterations. There is no start and no end. Every time the work is viewed, it is different. The result is a painting with light as its medium.”
An edition of this work is held by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, purchased NGV Foundation, 2013 and also the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand, purchased 2012.
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