MUMA in partnership with the NGV present an illustrated lecture by Turner Prize winning artist Simon Starling. The lecture will be introduced by Max Delany, Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, NGV and convened by Charlotte Day, Director, MUMA. The lecture coincides with the first career survey of Starling’s work in Australasia. Simon Starling: In Speculum brings together a major new commission and key works from the artists’ oeuvre that focus particularly on the site of the studio and workshop, and the relationships between art, technology, history and modernity.
Marked by epic journeys and explorative narratives, Simon Starling’s work investigates the social, cultural and material implications of object-making. His ongoing excavation and transformation of the material world takes the form of associational assemblages that incorporate film, photography and sculptural forms, revealing rich, unexpected and complex histories.
Date: 5:30-7pm, 18th July 2013
Venue: Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, NGV International
Free. No bookings required.
Born in the UK in 1967, Starling is now based in Copenhagen. He is the recipient of the Tate Britain Commission 2013 with the project Phantom Ride. In 2005 Starling was awarded the Turner Prize for Shedboatshed (Mobile Architecture No 2) and in 2003 he represented Scotland at the 50th Venice Biennale. A graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, Starling has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally, including a survey show at Tate St Ives in 2011, and exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, 2011, Musée d’Art Contemporain du Valde-Marne, Paris, 2009 and at The Power Plant, Toronto, 2008. His work was first shown in Australia in 1998 at Heide Museum of Modern Art. Simon Starling, the first comprehensive monograph on the artist, was published by Phaidon in 2012.
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Simon Starling: In Speculum is a joint project by Monash University Museum of Art, the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and City Gallery Wellington.
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