Tag: Melbourne

National Indigenous Photo-Media Forum

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National Indigenous Photo-Media Forum 8th - 10th February, 2012 Presented by Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) The Forum will present emerging and established Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander photographers and photo-media artists with the opportunity to join key photo-media industry specialists, artists and educators from across Australia. A series of presentations and workshops will run over two and a half days that will enable Indigenous artists and photographers to further develop industry and technical knowledge, whilst networking with artists and curators from across Australia. Confirmed speakers include: Patricia Adjei Indigenous Communications Coordinator and Legal Officer, Copyright Agency Limited Mervyn Bishop photographer Sally Brownbill photographer and educator Daniel Browning producer and presenter, Awaye!, ABC Radio Beck Cole filmmaker Michael Cook artist Robert Edwards National President, Australian Institute of Professional Photography Delwyn Everard…

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Opinion: On Facadism

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Opinion - David R. Marshall On Facadism The Myer’s Lonsdale Street Store is now a vast open building site, with the Lonsdale Street and Little Bourke Street facades propped up with a scaffolding of huge steel girders that occupy half of each street. Conspicuously absent is the façade of Lonsdale House, an Art Deco façade demolished in 2010, in spite of having a heritage overlay, in order to provide truck access to the site. According to a widely expressed view, facadism—the preserving of old facades while putting up a wholly new building behind them—is bad, because it is the integrity of the building as a whole that matters. This is nonsense, and the effect has been to strip away a key line of defence for buildings like Lonsdale House. This was an example of reverse facadism, when an Art Deco…

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Conference - Dispersed Identities: Sexuality, Surrealism and the Global Avant-Gardes

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Dispersed Identities: Sexuality, Surrealism and the Global Avant-Gardes February 3-4, 2012, The University of Melbourne The Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies, The School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, and the Australian Institute of Art History present Dispersed Identities: Sexuality, Surrealism and the Global Avant-Gardes is a conference which brings together questions of sexuality and gender with a broader discussion of the geographies of modern and contemporary culture. Speakers will focus on the legacy of surrealism and cognate avant-garde movements in the visual arts. A guiding principle of the conference is that one cannot speak about the global reach of modern and contemporary visual culture without bringing in questions of sexuality. Topics dealt with include the connections between geographic, sexual and artistic outsiderness; processes of dislocation and displacement and their relationship to the surrealist tradition…

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Dr Petra Kayser ‘Tingel Tangel: A Portrait of Turbulent Times in Germany, 1910 – 37’

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Tingel Tangel: A Portrait of Turbulent Times in Germany, 1910 – 37 Dr Petra Kayser, Curator, Prints & Drawings, NGV and Coordinating Curator for The Mad Square Modernity in German Art 1910 - 37 Lecture presented by the Friends of the Gallery Library This lecture explores German culture during the period of the ‘Weimar Republic’, which saw an unprecedented number of groundbreaking innovations in modern art. In this age of dramatic social change and modernisation, artists experimented in painting, printmaking, photography, design, architecture, film and theatre, exploring a new kind of realism and inventing new visual languages to communicate their ideas. Date: Sunday, 4 December 2011, 2.15pm for 2.30pm Cost: Friends of the Gallery Library: Free, please give your name and specify that you are a FOTGL at the time of booking. Guest: $25 payment for any attendees that are not FOTGL members. Includes refreshments on conclusion. Venue: Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, NGV International, 180 St Kilda…

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Floortalk: Introduction to the NGV exhibition ‘The Mad Square’

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Floortalk: Introduction to the NGV exhibition ‘The Mad Square’ Join Dr Jacqueline Strecker, curator of special exhibitions, Art Gallery of New South Wales the curator of The Mad Square for her introduction to the exhibition as it opens at the NGV. About the Exhibition In an era of chaos came an explosion of creativity – experimental, provocative and utterly compelling. Germany in the early twentieth century was a country in turmoil. After the First World War, the monarchy was abolished and replaced with the Weimar Republic. This was a period of political unrest, but it was also an era of optimism characterised by industrial development, innovation, and unprecedented freedom of expression. In Berlin and cities throughout Germany, avant-garde art movements flourished: Expressionism, Dada, Constructivism, Bauhaus and New Objectivity. Artists shared interest in radical experimentation extended across all art forms, including painting, photography,…

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Chris Kraus Keynote Lecture, Friday 14th October

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Chris Kraus Keynote Lecture MUMA is honoured to present a keynote lecture by filmmaker, writer and editor Chris Kraus as part of the Chris Kraus exhibition opening at MUMA on Thursday 13th October.. In 2011, the New York Times described Kraus as ‘one of our smartest and most original writers on contemporary art and culture’; and her novel I Love Dick was cited by Frieze magazine as one of the most important books of the past two decades. Following the recent publication of Where Art Belongs, Semiotext(e) 2011, Chris Kraus presents a new lecture of expanded art and cultural criticism. Chris Kraus Chris Kraus is the author of Video Green: Los Angeles Art and The Triumph of Nothingness and the novels Aliens and Anorexia, I Love Dick, and Torpor. Kraus is the founding editor of the Semiotext(e) series ‘Native Agents’;…

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NGV Symposium - ‘Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art’

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NGV Symposium - ‘Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art’ A range of speakers will discuss the origins and evolution of the Western Desert Art movement. Speakers include: Fred Myers, Silver Prof & Chair, Department of Anthropology, New York University Dr Philip Batty, Senior Curator, Anthropology (Central Australia), Museum Victoria Dick Kimber, historian & catalogue contributor Prof Paul Carter, Chair in Creative Place Research, Deakin University Paul Sweeney, Manager, Papunya Tula Artists Bobby West Tjupurrula, Papunya Tula artist About the Exhibition Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art features over 200 of the first paintings produced at Papunya in 1971–72 by the founding artists of the Western Desert art movement. The exhibition includes works by artists such as Uta Uta Tjangala, Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi and Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula. Tjukurrtjanu establishes the connection between these first works on board and their iconographic sources: the ancestral designs that embellish objects, the…

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Exhibition: Look Closer - Daniel King

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Look Closer - Daniel King Opening Night: Tuesday 4th October 6-8pm with speech by Dr Tony Birch – writer, historian and curator, Melbourne and ‘Welcome to Country’ by Caroline Briggs – Boonerwrung Elder. What ideas and attitudes are held by various people towards those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent? In response to this Melbourne-based Indigenous film-maker and artist Daniel King has produced a series of black and white photographs that invite us to ‘look closer’ at what assumptions might underpin some of our ideas. In doing this he provides an opportunity for viewers to review, recognize and perhaps reconsider their thoughts regarding the range of negative social and cultural stereotypes that seems to prevail in a large proportion of the nation’s unconscious. Human pathos and a wry sense of humour add to King’s acute art-directing skills with playful but powerful results.…

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Behind the Scenes In the Department of Photography at the NGV

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Behind the Scenes In the Department of Photography at the NGV Join NGV curators for a rare behind the scenes look at some early photographs and an informal conversation in the Department of Photography with Larry J Schaaf, Director of The Correspondence of William Fox Talbot Project and photo historian. Speakers Prof Larry J Schaaf and Isobel Crombie, Senior Curator, Photography, NGV Date: 2pm, Friday 14 October, 2011 Venue: Meet Information Desk, Ground Level, NGV International Cost $20 Adult / $16 NGV Member / $18 Student (bookings essential, places limited) Program Bookings 03 8662 1555 - Event code P11249

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News: Gerard Vaughan announces retirement from NGV in July 2012

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Gerard Vaughan announces retirement from NGV in July 2012 Press Release from the NGV reads: After thirteen years as Director National Gallery of Victoria, Dr Gerard Vaughan today announced he would retire from his role as Director in July 2012. Dr Vaughan was originally appointed Director of the NGV in 1999. Dr Vaughan said today that he believed the time was right to retire from his role: “In any field of endeavor knowing when to leave a role is crucial. I believe this is the right time to bow out. “I am very proud of our achievements over the past 12 years, and am confident the NGV is in good shape for the future. It has been a great privilege and pleasure to serve Victoria in the role of NGV Director. “In 2011 NGV celebrated its 150th anniversary, a very…

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New Exhibition: Fine impressions – printmaking and artists’ books in Melbourne 1999-2010

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Fine impressions: printmaking and artists’ books in Melbourne 1999-2010 This exhibition, which opens on Friday 26th August at the State LIbrary of Victoria, showcases beautiful limited-edition books by 20 Melbourne artists and printmakers. In the digital era the future of the printed book seems uncertain, yet the handmade artist’s book is a flourishing artform. Each of these works is unique in its use of design, typography, paper and binding, both drawing upon and extending the history and tradition of the book. The artists featured include Angela Cavalieri, Daniel Moynihan, Bruno Leti, Inge King, Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison.

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Symposium: Places of memory in medieval and early modern Europe

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Symposium: Places of memory in medieval and early modern Europe Friday 30th - Saturday 1st October, 2011 The connection between memory and place is a significant theme in humanities research. This symposium seeks to explore how memory was embodied in places and how place was imagined in memory in medieval and early modern Europe. By focussing on the spatialised nature of premodern memory, this symposium will consider the locational dimensions of memory, and the ways in which specific places - material or imagined - reflected memorial, commemorative or mnemonic concerns. Our speakers will focus on a particular location, including Jerusalem, India, Paris, Egypt, Marseilles, Salem, Portadown, Westminster and Australia. Speakers will explore themes such as individual and collective memory of a particular place, the use of memory in creating place, communicative memory, the construction of historical memory, the performance of…

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Opinion: Thoughts on the NGV’s latest acquisition: Correggio’s Madonna and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist by David R. Marshall

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Opinion: Thoughts on the NGV’s latest acquisition: Correggio’s Madonna and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist by David R. Marshall The NGV today announced the purchase of a newly discovered painting by Correggio (Antonio Allegri) of the Madonna and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist at Sotheby’s 7 July sale. By chance I was shown this painting in late May when I was looking at something else, and had an interesting discussion about it with the people from Sotheby’s, including their conservator who was doing the conservator’s report. It was not an attention-grabbing picture at first sight (especially as it was a little yellowed by varnish), but gradually the subtleties of Correggio’s hand and imagery began to emerge. It is an early work, which is always interesting with Correggio because, like Giovanni Bellini, he begins slowly,…

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Floor Talk: Sir Thomas Lawrence’s George IV of England

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Floor Talk: Sir Thomas Lawrence’s George IV of England Speaker Helen Gill, Hugh D.T. Williamson Foundation Paintings Conservation, NGV Following conservation treatment in 2010, this portrait is currently on display for the first time in many years. Join us to hear how the conservation treatment has revived the previously damaged painting, uncovering fine and well articulated brushwork, restoring it to displayable condition and informing the reattribution. Date: Friday 12th August, 12:30pm. Venue: NGV International 180 St Kilda Road, meet at Information Desk Website: http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/programs/public-programs/floor-talk-sir-thomas-lawrences-george-iv-fo-england

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Conversation: The NGV Story

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The NGV Story Join us for an ‘in conversation’ between NGV Director Gerard Vaughan and the author of The NGV Story publication, Phip Murray. Learn more about the 150- year history of the NGV as they discuss some of the great stories documented in the publication. The book will be available for sale and there will also be an opportunity for book signing. About the Book Phip Murray, The NGV Story, Publisher: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. ISBN: 9780724103393 (paperback), Published: May 2011, $29.95 paperback (AUD) The NGV Story brings together the great stories and events from the National Gallery of Victoria’s 150‐year history. This unique and entertaining publication celebrates the  significant occasions from the NGV’s past, be they momentous, subversive or amusing. A detailed, chronological narrative charts the life of the NGV from 1861 to 2011, highlighting the people…

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