Artists statement

Diena Georgetti has been a significant figure in Australian contemporary art, making paintings that cut through expectation since the outset of her career in the late 1980s. The recombination process of collage implicit to the making of her work enables the transporting and transposition of spirit and identity which, for the moment of that painting, she may adopt as her home, her place of commune and intermingling.

Georgetti is an artist who tends to work in series, each one differing dramatically in style and content from the last. Stadium, 2017 is one of a series of works shown at Heide Museum of Modern Art, in the major exhibition 'Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art', alongside important Australian and international artists such as Ralph Balson, Inge King, Kazimir Malevich and Alexander Rodchenko. The work engages with a modernist vocabulary derived from a curious mixture of cubism, purism, and British surrealism from the 1930s. Symmetries, bipartite and tripartite divisions feature prominently in extraordinary amalgamations of colour.