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Tracey Moffatt (Australian, b.1960)
LOT ID: 69271
Adventure series, 2004

Chromogenic Print (C-print)
46.5 х 40.2 in. cm.
Signed
Edition of 25
Lot description
Tracey Moffatt is arguably Australia’s best known contemporary artist. She has lived and worked in New York since 1997, and returns regularly to Australia.

Adventure Series, 2004 was photographed in Brisbane in July–August 2003 while Moffatt was artist-in-residence at the Institute of Modern Art. According to the artist, the series was inspired by ‘Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors’, an adventure comic strip she read as a child in Brisbane’s Courier Mail newspaper, as well as the 1970s Australian television seafaring show The Rovers.

In Adventure Series Moffatt translates her childhood memories of steamy glamor into a visually complex work indebted to these comic strip and television sources. She delights in visual artificiality: the characters are costumed and made-up professionally, the backdrops are painted and the images are manipulated with Photoshop.

Adventure series celebrates and parodies the popular culture genres which inspired it. This playful tribute, however, also clearly registers the seductive grip of the mass media in contemporary life and the power of its imagery.

Solo exhibitions of Moffatt's work have been organized by the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney (1989), Artpace in San Antonio (1995), DIA Center for the Arts in New York (1997), Kunsthalle Vienna (1998), Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston (1999), Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (2003–04), and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2005). Her works have also been included in important group exhibitions like the Sydney Biennial (1993, 2000, and 2008) Venice Biennale (1997), São Paulo Bienal (1996 and 1998), Prague Biennale (2005), Family Pictures at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2007), and Liverpool Biennial (2008). In 2007 she was awarded the Infinity Award for Excellence in Photography by the International Center for Photography in New York. Moffatt lives and works in New York.
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    Adventure series
    c-print
    (H 46.5, W 40.2) in.
    (118 x 102) cm.
    Ed. ed. 25
    Sold for: US$4,602
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    Adventure series
    c-print
    (H 46.5, W 40.2) in.
    (118 x 102) cm.
    Ed. ed. 25
    Bought In
    Wednesday, May 04, 2011
    Stockholms Auktionsverk
    Lot 01323
  • Tracey Moffatt

    Adventure series 6
    digital color print
    (H 46.9, W 40.2) in.
    (119 x 102) cm.
    Ed. 15/25
    Sold for: US$11,065
    Monday, August 24, 2009
    Sotheby's Australia
    Lot 00216
  • Tracey Moffatt

    Adventure, series 9
    color coupler print
    (H 51.9, W 45.1) in.
    (131.7 x 114.6) cm.
    Ed. 16/25
    Sold for: US$6,978
    Sunday, June 29, 2008
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