After decades as a collector, the comedian fell in love with Australia’s native art.
Over the past few years, comedian Steve Martin, shown at the Gagosian Gallery this month in New York, has found inspiration in Aboriginal art. By Sebastian Smee Sebastian Smee Art critic Email Bio Follow May 16 at 3:45 PM NEW YORK — You could start this story in Australia’s Gibson Desert in 1984. Or you could start it in Steve Martin’s Upper West Side apartment in 2015. It really doesn’t matter. The remarkable part is simply that these two times and places came together at all.
The show is filled with big paintings by Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, each in a pared-down, minimalist palette. Their asymmetrical patterns of parallel dotted lines seem to ripple and hum as they shift across the canvas. Martin is dazzled. He buys one of the paintings and hangs it near the Bacon and the Freud. It’s bigger than both of them. He’s not sure what to make of it.At this juncture in his life, and despite having just entered his eighth decade, Martin isn’t exactly idle.
Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri. Untitled, 2013. He has learned about the origins of Aboriginal painting in the 1970s, about how to understand the work — they look abstract but they’re like aerial views or diagrams that integrate narratives, both real and mythological — and about the importance of provenance.
Martin’s deepening preoccupation is being noticed back in Australia. And it is beginning to have tangible effects here in the United States. A prolonged drought meant the group was running out of food and water, and the adults were running out of appropriate mates. So two of them, including Tjapaltjarri, started searching for other Pintupi. They came across a broken-down Landcruiser and approached two clothed men, a father and son from a remote community at nearby Kiwirrkurra, to ask for water.
Not long after the show in Queens, Martin was lunching with Larry Gagosian, widely considered to be the world’s most powerful art dealer. When Gagosian asked what he had been doing, Martin showed the dealer Aboriginal paintings on his iPad.
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