{"id":13374,"date":"2018-09-12T13:25:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T05:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=13374"},"modified":"2021-10-19T13:12:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T05:12:33","slug":"the-untold-stewart-macfarlane25-september-15-october-2018-press-release","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/the-untold-stewart-macfarlane25-september-15-october-2018-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"The Untold &#8211; Stewart MacFarlane|25 September &#8211; 15 October 2018 &#8211; Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='artists-title'  class='avia-section av-av_section-142ff43b7600746a6e970fde5cf91c57 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll  container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-13374'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_full-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52{\nheight:20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"font-family: 'eb garamond'; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left;\"><a title=\"The Untold \u2013 Stewart MacFarlane|25 September \u2013 15 October 2018 \u2013 Works\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/the-untold-stewart-macfarlane25-september-15-october-2018-works\/\">works\u00a0<\/a>|<a title=\"The Untold \u2013 Stewart MacFarlane|25 September \u2013 15 October 2018 \u2013 Press Release\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/the-untold-stewart-macfarlane25-september-15-october-2018-press-release\/\">\u00a0press release<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfm.my\/figuring-out-the-untold\">NEws<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class='flex_column av-av_one_full-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div column-top-margin'   ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:14px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: open sans thin; font-size: 25px; line-height: 24px; letter-spacing: 1px; color: #333333;\">The Untold<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stewart MacFarlane was born in 1953 in Australia. He is regarded as one of Australia\u2019s most prolific contemporary narrative painters, with his works in the collections of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Australian National Gallery, the Queensland Art Gallery, the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art (New Mexico) and the Provincetown Museum and Art Center (Massachusetts), amongst many other respected institutions and museums.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coming from a tradition of figurative painting, his work references 20th Century figurative painters \u2013 Edward Hopper being the most prominent. Vivid, glossy and ruthlessly applied pigments tend to dominate the scenes and staged dramas exposed, with rural landscapes and streetscapes, as well as urban individuals being his key subjects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018<em>The Untold\u2019<\/em> marks MacFarlane\u2019s fifth solo with Wei-Ling Gallery. This exhibition reflects his recent travels and experiences, and represents his transition between two continents: his home Australia, and America, where he has spent a great part of his artistic trajectory. Far from the clich\u00e9 of American Dreams however, he seeks mainly within the new continent, connections and familiarity to the sparse landscapes of his motherland, Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MacFarlane has the capability of viewing the world through double lenses where he retells what is seen, in a manner that denotes American popular culture, owing this to the influences carried from his youth. The notion of reality could be grasped by how indications of time and space are manifested in each situation revealed: moments of the day, seasons of the year, the clear dry lights, heat and emptiness of rolling flatlands that stretch between his travel destinations. Although adopting common situations as a point of departure, MacFarlane prevents his works from being ordinary by inventing dramatically charged atmospheres, composed of multi-layered signs and parallel occurrences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ambiguity overshadows <em>Outback <\/em>(2018), in which a driving person looks vaguely towards viewers. The status of audience alters to character as one imagines sitting at the passenger\u2019s side of the car, while spotting through the window an over-turned red pick-up \u2013 if not through the rear-view mirror, a mysterious running figure. Transmitting multiple uncertainties, MacFarlane triggers presumptions of what could have taken place, and opens up to the hypothesis of what is yet to occur. Unconsciously, the desire to ascertain the complete story emerges: <em>What could be our relationship with the protagonist? Where are we heading to and for what purpose? How are the parallel plots connected? Most importantly, is there any need to feel uneasy?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As one explores the power of the mind to imagine and venture through personal fantasies, the warmth of sceneries complement, as if giving viewers infinite time to extend possibilities folded in each canvas, taking over the role of the storyteller.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Wei-Ling\u00a0Contemporary\u00a0is\u00a0located\u00a0at\u00a0RT01 Sixth\u00a0Floor,\u00a0The\u00a0Gardens\u00a0Mall,\u00a059200,\u00a0Kuala<\/em><em> Lumpur, Malaysia.\u00a0Admission\u00a0hours\u00a0are\u00a0Tuesday-Sunday 11am-7pm.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Please call\u00a0+60322828323\/\u00a0+60322601106\u00a0or\u00a0email: <a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"mailto:noel.weilinggallery@gmail.com\">noel.weilinggallery@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em><em>for more information. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; color: #666666; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='after_section_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-13374'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><div class='flex_column av-av_one_fourth-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><\/div>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_fourth-61f1f3fb8a14755dafdb04b8bcedc67a av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_one_fourth  el_before_av_one_fourth  flex_column_div '   ><\/div>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_fourth-61f1f3fb8a14755dafdb04b8bcedc67a av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_one_fourth  el_before_av_one_fourth  flex_column_div '   ><\/div>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_fourth-61f1f3fb8a14755dafdb04b8bcedc67a av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div '   ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"works\u00a0|\u00a0press release\u00a0| NEws The Untold Stewart MacFarlane was born in 1953 in Australia. 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