Ben Apfelbaum

DESMOND LAZARO ‘POINT AND LINE TO PLANE’ EXHIBITION @ ART GALLERY OF NSW

Artist Desmond Lazaro. Pic Ben Apfelbaum

 

 

Kandinsky said” everything starts with a point. From the point comes align, from my align comes a plane, from a plane comes a solid form – from there the universe unfolds.‘’

Geometry is not only about simple lines and shapes, it is the crystalline structure of nature.

Desmond Lazaro is a contemporary artist interested in linking art, science and the spirit, like Kandinsky.  With his current exhibition POINT AND LINE TO PLANE he takes us on a journey into the deeper truths of geometry and the material mysteries of colour. This is one of two exhibitions, complementing the Kandinsky exhibition He explores our fundamental relationship with the Cosmos through ‘‘sacred geometries– the hidden meaning of shapes – probing the laws of art and nature to consider their mysteries.

Lazaro used primary shapes of the triangle, circle and square to create all the works in his exhibition. Kandinsky also used these shut shapes and assigned primary colours to each of them – yellow triangle, blue circle and red square. In the exhibition there are triangle square and circle shapes together with colour pencils and  paper inviting you either to try and imitate Kandinsky or Lazaro or come up with an entirely innovative and creative work

Visitors can experience POINT AND LINE TO PLANE is on display as part of the ticketed Kandinsky exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales until the 10th March 2024.

 

Published by Ben Apfelbaum

My photography began when my father handed me the proverbial brownie box camera as a child. As cameras developed I went through Fujica and Olympus range finders graduating to my first single lens reflex camera, the Minolta SRT101, the latter being the greatest facilitator to my growth as a photographer. Digital photography has only added to this. I was a regular contributor to Camera Craft magazine (Australian Camera ) for over three years. During Australia’s Bicentennial year (1988) I made it a personal project to document the celebrations. This culminated in the creation of a book of my photos which was published in 1989. The book was called CELEBRATING AUSTRALIA and came with an accompanying calendar. My works have appeared in a number of publications including the coffee book entitled MY AUSTRALIA (1989), publisher Robertsbridge Severn. This book had a preface by the then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke. I was a co-photographer on a book entitled SYDNEY- DISCOVER THE CITY with text written by Robert Treborlang. Major Mitchell Press was the publisher. Also for two years I was the photographer for calendars celebrating Sydney’s multicultural communities. The two calendars were entitled MULTICULTURAL SYDNEY. My work appeared in a group exhibition held at Sydney’s Town Hall pertaining to the diversity of life in South America to raise money for orphanages there. I have over one hundred photos stored in the New South Wales State Library archive. I had a solo exhibition held in 2007 entitled Ben’s Lens at the Sydney Jewish Museum which celebrated the vibrancy of the Sydney Jewish community. Some of these photos are on the Museum’s permanent display. I have exhibited internationally firstly at the Spruill Gallery in Atlanta Georgia, United States, and in an exhibition entitled Kosher and Co at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Currently I am a regular contributor to J-Wire and this esteemed publication. To celebrate the opening of a permanent Photography Gallery, the State Library of New South Wales selected 400 shots from its archive of over 2,000,000 images to display in the new gallery. An image of mine was plucked out of the multi million photo archive to be part of the inaugural exhibition.