TOLARNO GALLERIES
presents
two individual solo projects of works by two artists from different generations: BILL HENSON born 1955 and DOUGLAS LANCE GIBSON born 1984
BILL HENSON
Kindertotenlieder 1976 - 2016
In 1976 Bill Henson began work on a series of photographs inspired by Friedrich Rückert’s poems on the deaths of children and Mahler’s song cycle: Kindertotenlieder. He continued to work on the series for 40 years, drawing together evocative dreamscapes of the forest and lake at Maiernigg, the composing hut Mahler had built deep in the forest and the family’s house on the shores of the Worthersee, combining these works with the spectre of a young girl.
Together these images present a beautiful and sustained meditation on longing and loss.
DOUGLAS LANCE GIBSON
What Was Once Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
2016
The island of Tuveuni straddles the 180th meridian, leaving the local Fijians to, in theory, travel forwards and backwards in time. This temporal limbo was actually settled in 1879 when authorities shifted the International Date Line to the east; the ease with which the West edits time.
What Was Once Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow addresses these inconsistencies through the use of metaphor, repetition, and mediations on time.