Art Gallery of New South Wales
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The Art Gallery of New South Wales is the leading museum of art in New South Wales and Sydney, and one of Australia's foremost cultural institutions.
Exhibition this year:
Photography & place: approaches to Australian
landscape photography 1970s til now
17 MAR – 29 MAY 2011
Unlike politically and conceptually informed landscape photography
in Australia in the 1970s, which was a tentative exploration of the
idea of place and reclamation, some recent photographic work can
be seen as an exploration of the idea of place in dynamic relation to
culture, despite the speci?cities of location.
This exhibition looks at the earlier work and compares and contrasts
intention and effect in relation to more recent photography and
examines works that present very speci?c views of locations
and what that location or place can be taken to represent. Includes
18 artists from Jon Rhodes, Lynn Silverman, Simryn Gill, Ricky
Maynard, Rosemary Laing to Paul Ogier.
Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prizes
16 APR – 26 JUN 2011
The Archibald Prize is one of Australia’s oldest and most prestigious
art awards. Since its inception in 1921 the prize has been awarded to
some of Australia’s most important artists, including George Lambert,
William Dobell and Brett Whiteley. The Wynne Prize is awarded to the
best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours
or for the best example of ?gure sculpture, by an Australian artist.
The Sir John Sulman Prize is awarded for the best subject painting or
genre painting or mural project by an Australian artist.
Unguided tours: Anne Landa Award for video and
new media arts 2011
5 MAY – 10 JUL 2011
From a poetic walk, to a long-distance ?ight, to a voyage through a
digital desert, seven video and new media artists offer ‘unguided
tours’ through rich and unexpected worlds. Featuring Ian Burns,
David Haines and Joyce Hinterding, Jae Hoon Lee, Rachel Khedoori,
Arlo Mountford and Charlie Sofo.
Eikoh Hosoe: Theatre of memory
12 MAY – 7 AUG 2011
This exhibition brings together three seminal series by Eikoh Hosoe,
a leading ?gure in modern Japanese photography. Taken over forty
years, Kamaitachi (1965-68), The Butter?y Dream (2006) and Ukiyo-e
Projections (2002-03) are driven by Hosoe’s longstanding fascination
for the revolutionary dance movement Butoh and for its charismatic
founders Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno. Together these series
epitomise his unique style that combines photography with elements
of theatre, dance, ?lm and traditional Japanese art.
Opening of John Kaldor Family Gallery
21 MAY 2011
The John Kaldor Family Gallery opens 21 May 2011 and marks a
new chapter for contemporary art at the Art Gallery of New South
Wales. The Kaldor Gallery at close to 1,400 square metres doubles
the space for contemporary art at the Gallery. The new Kaldor Gallery
links to the existing contemporary galleries and creates the best
encyclopaedic contemporary collection in Australia.
The Kaldor collection displayed in the new gallery includes site
speci?c works - a room of Sol LeWitt drawings and Richard Long’s
slate path, cairn and circle and includes works by Christo and
Jeanne-Claude, Rauschenberg, Gilbert and George, Bernd and
Hilla Becher, Jeff Koons and Andreas Gursky.
Sam Smith
21 MAY – 14 AUG 2011
Sam Smith’s new work explores cinema’s potential for non-linear
timing. Breaking narrative while looking at the use of subjective
viewpoints, multiple perspectives and viewer engagement with screen
based media and sculptural installation, the work will be produced in
Berlin and Sydney throughout 2010 and 2011.
Venue
Art Gallery of NSW @ Art Gallery Road, Sydney
Price
Free, Charges apply to some exhibitions
Bookings
Info Desk 9225 1744