Breaking The Square: Roger Kemp & Bob Gibson

In collaboration with the Roger Kemp Trust and Tjarlirli & Kaltukatjara Art, cbOne Gallery brings together the timeless works of two visionary groundbreaking painters Roger Kemp (1908 – 1987) and Bob Gibson Tjungarrayi (b.1974).

This exhibition celebrates the metaphysical vision and distinctive stylistic expression through two pioneers of contemporary art from different times, places and cultures.

Roger Kemp is a leading figure in Australian art history for his personal vision that pushed Modernist ideals into a unique futuristic consciousness. From early Cubism with its synesthetic and mystic approach to abstraction, Roger Kemp pursued his own visual language of the subconscious structure of nature. His mature paintings are highly complex compositions of geometric forms revealing a cosmic order as spiritual and monumental.

Bob Gibson is a recognisable trailblazer right now for his distinctive personal expression of ancestral knowledge. Descending from artists who founded the Western Desert aboriginal art movement in the 1970’s, including grandparents Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi and Ningura Napurrula, Bob Gibson renders ancient iconographies and sacred geography in gestural markings and command of contemporary colour.

Both artists hold their own power in their individual compulsive energy that is felt in the raw brushstrokes and dynamic compositions that pulsate with colour and form. Together these works emanate a metaphysical cosmology that is beyond time and space.

Roger Kemp is presented courtesy of Roger Kemp Trust and Bob Gibson is presented courtesy of Tjarlirli & Kaltukatjara Art.