REVIEW: Dangerously Modern | Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890-1940
The two-and-a half-kilogram catalogue for the Dangerously Modern exhibition, set inside its pink, gossamer carry bag, is the perfect metaphor for this exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) featuring fifty Australian women artists who left for Europe to travel and study art in the heady years of modernism, from 1890 to 1940. […]
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REVIEW: Yolngu Power, the art of Yirrkala
Presenting an eighty-year art history of sixteen east Arnhem Land Yolngu clans represented by the Yirrkala Art Centre Buku Larrnggay Mulka, it recalls the Art Gallery of New South Wales’s Crossing Country that some twenty years ago traced a nearly 100-year history of west Arnhem Land art. This historical format pushes against the usual focus […]
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Jelena Telecki Mothers, Fathers
Nespokojstvo (foreboding uneasiness) is the Serbian word Jelena Telecki offers for the mood underlying the nine works in Mothers, Fathers. It is her debut solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the first in the Gallery’s inaugural Contemporary Projects series to showcase New South Wales artists. With a subdued palette of […]
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Hoda Afshar: A Curve is a Broken Line
A Curve is a Broken Line is shaped by testimonials of Iranian-born artist Hoda Afshar, and installed and curated by Isobel Parker Philip at the Art Gallery of NSW. In this hybrid multifaceted exhibition, the Melbourne-based visual storyteller shares with an audience ten years of her reciprocal art projects and collaborative artistic activities. The book […]
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Sol LeWitt: Affinities and Resonances
The exhibition takes its name from a quote from LeWitt, where he professed “a great affinity” for the works of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, while the “resonances” part of the show refers to live musical performances. Chuck Johnson and JWPATON, a Yuin musician, performed at the John Kaldor Family Hall on Wednesday 31 August at 8:00 […]
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Andrew Andersons: Architecture and the Public Realm
When the Australian colonies began to build their first museums – inaugurated by what is now known as The Lady Franklin Museum at the foot of Mount Wellington in Hobart in 1842 – they naturally reflected the taste of their time, namely neoclassical. The porticos, columns, and pediments, often with relief sculptures, elicited the spirit […]
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Daniel Boyd
Professionally, the previous two COVID-19-addled years have been kind to Daniel Boyd. He is on the cusp of having his first solo survey show in a major Australian state gallery – at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), opening 4 June. He has worked on various projects with Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director […]
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MONUMENTAL (working title)
If you’d like to know what MONUMENTAL (working title) is about, perhaps Malcolm Whittaker can tell you. In three thirty-minute sessions over the course of this weekend, Whittaker will tour audiences around the Art Gallery’s Grand Courts, discussing MONUMENTAL (working title) and its aims, interventions, and concerns. The structure of this performance itself, entitled Dirty Work, already gives a few signals towards […]
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Matisse: Life & Spirit and Matisse Alive
Without his touch, Matisse would not exist for us. We can recognise his work by its radical composition, the lyricism of its colour and the utter clarity of the artist’s final phase, but before these qualities could blossom there was an initial impulse, born of the liberated touch of the late nineteenth century. The freedom to […]
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Isaac Julien in Australia
Isaac Julien confessed to Laura Barnett in a Guardian article in 2013 that he was a frustrated painter. Therefore, it’s unsurprising that his film and video works are so painterly, that his installations inhabit gallery spaces, and his picture-making within each frame is so considered and visually poetic. Like Francisco de Goya and Gustave Courbet […]
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Lawrence Weiner: A Personal Recollection
I first met Lawrence in 1980, when I was a graduate student at the Rhode Island School of Design. I had of course seen his work while I was living in Europe in the 1970s, at various sites, but it was the work at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands that piqued my curiosity. […]
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Matisse: Life & Spirit
Was there a more prolific maker of unforgettable images than Matisse, at least in the twentieth century? The number of exceptional works he created, in painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking and his own medium of the paper cut-out, is astounding. He coaxed a wealth of aesthetic qualities from his materials and evolved a huge inventory of […]
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