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VICTOR MAJZNER (born 1945) Rabiatu 1973 acrylic on canvas artist's name, title and date on label verso 214 x 214cm PROVENANCE: The National Australia Bank Art Collection EXHIBITIONS: The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 15 October - 28 November 1982 LITERATURE: Lindsay, R. (ed.), The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, The National Bank of Australasia, Melbourne, 1982, pl. 62, p. 75 (illus.) "This painting was conceived from memories of Buchan Caves which I visited in the late '60s. Dwellings and shelters have been a recurring subject of my work. Sheltering spaces entrap. Below the surface of the ground exists a habitat of sound and tactility, a dream shelter, a final place. Skins of evergy suspended. Centrapetal heat worked to a point of stillness. Touching, rubbing, flowing, spreading, licking, opening - fragments of biophysical experience. No natural light. Each membrane exudes its own temperature. Constant shift of form and focus. A space of an eternal event. Rabiatu is an invented word." (Artist's statement from 1981 p.34) OTHER NOTES: © Victor Majzner/Copyright Agency, 2022