About the exhibition
The Incident in the Museum series was an occasional program of commissioned exhibitions, projects and events by contemporary artists. The inaugural exhibition in the series featured a new, architecturally scaled installation by Stephen Bram who, alongside his practice as a leading abstract painter, has achieved recognition in Australia and Europe for distinguished art projects and commissions developed in relation to architecture.

Bram’s site-specific, mural-scale wall painting continued the artist’s ongoing exploration of the relationship between abstract painting and the representation of architecture and spatial perception. For Incident in the Museum 1, Bram transformed the gallery space through a series of dynamic, geometric shapes and planes of colour that were determined according to six perspectival vanishing points (two to each painted wall), which derived from three designated points outside the gallery. The shapes painted on the walls were effectively sections through three-dimensional volumes configured in relation to these three points, which led to the sensation of shapes being projected and shattering through space.

^{Image: Stephen Bram, Untitled (two point perspective), 1988}

Exhibition Catalogue:
Incident in the Museum 1: Stephen Bram

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