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Sisters' double act

20 May 2009

Gabriella Mangano and Sylvana Mangano, Between near and far 2008. Video still.
Gabriella Mangano and Sylvana Mangano, Between near and far 2008. Video still. Courtesy the artists and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne.

An intriguing exhibition featuring the collaborative work of artists and twin sisters Gabriella and Sylvana Mangano will open at the Art and Design Faculty gallery at the Caulfield campus on Monday 25 May, 2009.

The exhibition features performance, drawing, video, sound and installation work created by the pair over the past several years.

Curator Geraldine Barlow from the Monash University Museum of Art said the exhibition offered the opportunity to view the poetic and enigmatic work of the Mangano sisters in great depth.

"The Mangano sisters draw together in space: in the studio, with chairs on some days and with pencil on others, they draw with paper, they draw on film and in fields of grass, with lengths of black crepe streamers flying in the wind," Ms Barlow said.

"A number of the sisters' video performance works explore both their intuitive responses to drawing and to each other's movements.

"They display an uncanny ability to communicate silently. Their gestures appear at the same time highly-choreographed and entirely spontaneous.

"Visitors to the exhibition will also have the opportunity to view a major new and hypnotic ceiling projection."

Monash staff and students are invited to attend the opening celebration that will be held at the gallery on Wednesday 27 May from 5 to 7 pm.

The gallery is located in the Art and Design Building at Caulfield campus and is open from 10 am to 5 pm, Monday to Friday. The exhibition will run until 3 July.

For further information, visit the Monash University Museum of Art website.