Victor Majzner: Towards Identity

About the exhibition
This solo exhibition presented twelve diptychs by Melbourne artist Victor Majzner produced between 1988 and 1993. Majzner was known  for the vivid, surreal qualities of his paintings, and many of the works in the exhibition reflected the influence of the artist’s recent trips to Riversleigh, a remote cattle station in north-west Queensland.

This body of work was motivated by Majzner’s desire to construct a sense of personal identity shaped by his experience as an Australian immigrant from Eastern Europe. To this end, he adopted the diptych format as a way to articulate and confront the binaries that structure contemporary society—for example, nature and culture, regional and international, and personal and political.

Acknowledgements
This exhibition was supported by the Australia Council, the Federal Government’s Arts funding and advisory body.

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^{Image: Victor Majzner, Towards Identity 1992, synthetic polymer paint on two canvases, 548 x 213 cm (overall). Collection of the artist}