Monthly Archives: October 2012

Performance Lecture | Nikhil Chopra

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Performance Lecture with Asialink Roving Resident 2012 Nikhil Chopra Goa-based interdisciplinary artist Nikhil Chopra is the inaugural Asialink Roving Resident. The artist will ‘rove’ for five weeks between Sydney (Carriageworks), Melbourne (Asialink) and Western Australia (The Fremantle Arts Centre), where he will be introduced to new networks and opportunities along the way. Nikhil Chopra’s artistic practice is grounded in cultural history and personal memories. His performances are in large part improvised, at the intersection of live art, theatre, painting, photography and installation. Highlights of Nikhil Chopra’s artistic career include Indian Highway at the Serpentine Gallery 2008–09, Making Worlds at the Venice Biennale 2009, and Marina Abramovic Presents at the Manchester International Festival 2009. Visit his website www.nikhilchopra.net. Date: Tuesday 9 October, 12.30 pm…

Exhibitions at MUMA | Artists’ Proof #1 and Emily Floyd Sculpture

Ash Keating, The west park proposition, 2012

Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA Opening function: Saturday 6 October, 3.00 - 5.00pm,  Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield Campus With opening remarks at 3.30pm by Professor Edward Byrne, AO Vice-Chancellor & President, Monash University Artists’ Proof #1 Exhibition dates: 1 October - 15 December 2020 Artists: Sarah Byrne, Alicia Frankovich, Newell Harry, Joyce Hinterding, David Jolly, Jonathan Jones, Ash Keating, Elizabeth Newman and Rose Nolan Curatorium: Geraldine Barlow, Max Delany, Francis Parker, Patrice Sharkey The inaugural edition of a new exhibition series, Artists’ Proof #1 explores current positions in contemporary art through new commissions by nine outstanding contemporary artists. Artists’ Proof has been established to provide curatorial support for contemporary artists to develop new work and ambitious projects. The…

Art History Seminars at Melbourne University

Art History Seminars at Melbourne University Wednesday  October 3rd: Laura Castagnini, Humour in feminist art Wednesday October 10: Felicity Harley-McGowan, Fake or Medieval forgery? An engraved gem in the British Museum the problems of its provenance     Time: Wednesdays 1-2 pm. Venue: Old Physics, G16 (the Jim Potter Room), University of Melbourne, Parkville All welcome. Enquiries to Felicity Harley McGowan fharley@unimelb.edu.au

Seminar | Frank Heckes - Picasso’s Blue and Rose Period Reconsidered

Pablo Picasso, The Blue Room, 1901 © Estate of Pablo Picasso

Picasso’s Blue and Rose Periods Reconsidered This seminar will consider Picasso’s life and artistic development from 1899 to 1905. Detailed analysis will be given to major works of the Blue Period, such as Evocation (The Burial of Casagemas) (1901), Self-Portrait (1901), The Blue Room (1901), La Vie (1903) and the haunting La Celestina (1904); and such Rose Period works as The Harlequin’s Family and The Family of Saltimbanques (1905). Dr Frank Heckes, BA in Art and Spanish (University of California, Davis), MA in Spanish (Indiana University), MA in Art History and PhD in Art History (University of Michigan), is an Honorary Research Associate in Art History at La Trobe University, where he previously lectured for twenty-seven years. Frank is a…

EVCS | Solidarity, Betrayal, and Opportunism: Deluxe Manuscript Production for Two High-Status Couples in Renaissance Florence

Fols 13v–14 of the Strozzi-Acciaioli Book of Hours, MS Felton 869–5, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Image: National Gallery of Victoria.

European Visual Culture Seminar Solidarity, Betrayal, and Opportunism: Deluxe Manuscript Production for Two High-Status Couples in Renaissance Florence Hugh Hudson This paper will discuss two deluxe Florentine Renaissance manuscripts in Melbourne collections, the manuscript containing the Scriptores historiae Augustae in the State Library of Victoria, and the Strozzi-Acciaioli Hours in the National Gallery of Victoria, interpreting their heraldry, emblems, inscriptions, and texts, as well as archival evidence, to describe the circumstances surrounding their commissions. It has been possible in the case of the former manuscript to identify more reliable evidence for the original owners, Lorenzo de’ Medici and Clarice Orsini, than in previous studies. In the latter case it has been possible to identify the more likely original owners as…