Current exhibitions
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24 April – 12 July 2009 | Exhibition Galleries
Soft sculpture reveals the ways artists use unconventional materials to challenge the nature of sculpture. See works made from cloth, rope, paper, hair, leather, rubber and vinyl; works that are fluffy, squishy or bent; or that droop, ooze or splash.
Eva Hesse Contingent 1969 (detail) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Purchased 1973 Courtesy the Estate of Eva Hesse, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zürich
Reinventions: sculpture + assemblage
16 May – 13 September 2009 | Project Gallery
Reinventions: sculpture + assemblage includes some of Australia’s most significant established artists, such as Rosalie Gascoigne, Robert Klippel and Colin Lanceley, with those of a younger generation like Neil Roberts, Ah Xian, Tim Horn and Ricky Swallow. What the artists share is a fascination with reinvention—with taking old materials or established ideas and finding fresh, distinctive and poetic ways to express them.
Timothy Horn Glass slipper (ugly blister) 2001
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Purchased 2002
Future exhibition
McCubbin:
Last Impressions 1907–17
14 August – 1 November 2009 | Exhibition Galleries
Frederick McCubbin is one of the foremost Australian Impressionists, most well known for his images of the bush. This exhibition traces the radical changes in his work after he viewed the works of the European masters JMW Turner and Claude Monet in London. It includes a diverse range of joyous Australian paintings, from the bush to city life, interiors and portraits.
Frederick McCubbin Afterglow 1912 (detail)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Purchased 1970
Ballets Russes:
the art of costume
A major exhibition of the Gallery’s renowned collection of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes including costumes by artists Natalia Goncharova, Michel Larionov, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Georges Braque, André Masson and Giorgio de Chirico.
Léon Bakst Costume for the Blue God c 1912 (detail)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Purchased 1987