Opening 13 February, the National Gallery of Victoria will showcase a beautiful collection of prints and drawings in Love, Loss & Intimacy.
This enchanting exhibition will explore the human emotions of desire, grief and affection, which tie the observer to the observed.
Drawn from the NGV Collection, Love, Loss & Intimacy will feature over sixty prints and drawings ranging from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, including works by Picasso, Rembrandt, Munch, David Hockney, Joy Hester and Vernon Ah Kee among others. A selection of paintings, sculpture and media works will also be on display.
Frances Lindsay, Deputy Director, NGV said: “Opening just in time for Valentine’s Day, this fascinating exhibition from our collection of prints and drawings will reveal some of the greatest stories of love, desire and loss. This charming exhibition is certainly one for the romantic at heart!”
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NEW010 is a little bit NEWER
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For the past eight years ACCA has offered six/seven promising Australian artists the opportunity to make a new work and have it shown in the annual NEW exhibition. Next year NEW010 will shake things up a bit.
ACCA’s curatorial team has joined with prominent Melbourne architectural and interior design company NEXUS Designs to recreate, re-vision and refresh the exhibition galleries. The designers have turned the space into seven individual sites, each with their own new intervention –plinths have been introduced, walls cut into and ceilings expanded.
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In January 2010, the National Gallery of Victoria will present a major exhibition of the work of
internationally renowned sculptor Ron Mueck.
Known for his extraordinarily life‐like creations, this exhibition will feature twelve sculptures by Mueck including four new works.
This will be the largest and most comprehensive Mueck exhibition ever to be held in Australia.
Frances Lindsay, NGV Deputy Director, said: “Since his dramatic entry onto the international art stage,
Mueck has continued to astound audiences with his realistic, figurative sculptures and now
occupies a unique and important place in the field of international contemporary art.”
David Hurlston, Curator Australian Art, said Ron Mueck’s poignant sculptures illustrate timeless human
conditions from birth to demise.
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Kit Wise will create the ultimate relaxation destination in a series of new works for ACCA @ MIRKA.
Kit Wise creates large-scale digital landscapes where the ideal city meets with nature. “Utopia in arcadia,” he calls it.
The artist, a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art in the Faculty of Art and Design at Monash University, borrows from western medieval narrative painting, the European tradition of the picturesque and science fiction cinema to make picture perfect, high-tech cities that sit against beautiful landscapes – usually with an uncanny twist.
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A little knowledge can go a long way … A lot of professionals are crackpots
Abuse of power comes as no surprise … Being sure of yourself means you’re a fool … Believing in rebirth is the same as admitting defeat …
The first Australian survey of works by celebrated New York artist Jenny Holzer – famous for her ongoing text series Truisms – will open at ACCA in December.
The Truisms are metaphors, aphorisms and Holzer’s own musings about the state of the world, which blend like advertisements into the urban environment – projected onto high-profile public buildings, LED screens, on street posters or stickers placed randomly on parking metres, telephone booths and public furniture.
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International artists explore the ghostly inhabitations of the ‘home’ in a new group show presented as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival.
A deluge of water floods from the windows of a gothic, Pennsylvanian house in David Haines and Joyce Hinterding’s House 2; a young women is lured menacingly by the ghost of herself in the film The Likening by David Noonan and Simon Trevaks; and former inhabitants of a German housing estate, once used to house Nazi construction workers and displaced persons in post-World War 2 Europe, discuss their former home in Michaela Melián’s Föhrenwald.
The Dwelling, curated by ACCA’s Artistic Director Juliana Engberg and organised by Hannah Mathews for MIAF 2009, brings together a series of spooky works from leading contemporary artists, each exploring the surreal, the haunted and the very strange.
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Swedish artist, Johanna Billing will bring her collaborative musical-art project, You Don’t Love Me Yet to Melbourne as part of an exhibition of her work at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.
The project invites local musicians of diverse genres to come together on one night to perform their own cover version of the 1980s song, ‘You Don’t Love Me Yet’, originally written and performed by Roky Erikson. This event has now taken place in over 20 cities across the world, with more than 200 versions of the song performed. You Don’t Love Me Yet brings together Billing’s interest in music, art and community.
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