NGV EXHIBITIONS JULY – DECEMBER 2015

Please note that the details contained in this copy of the National Gallery of Victoria’s 2015 exhibition schedule may change over the course of time.

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NGV International180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne10am–5pm. Closed Tuesdays (Masterpieces from the Hermitage open daily)

The Ian Potter Centre: NGV AustraliaFederation Square, Melbourne10am–5pm. Closed Mondays

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(cover) Ai Weiwei, At the Museum of Modern Art, 1987, from the New York Photographs series, 1983–93 (detail). Collection of Ai Weiwei. © Ai Weiwei; Andy Warhol artwork © 2015 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney.

(opposite) Ai Weiwei, Grapes, c. 2011. Collection of Larry Warsh. Image courtesy Ai Weiwei studio. © Ai Weiwei

(following left) Andy Warhol, American 1928–87, Self-portrait, 1966–67, acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, 55.9 x 55.9 cm. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. © 2015 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney.

(following right) Ai Weiwei. © Gao Yuan

MASTERPIECES FROM THE HERMITAGE: THE LEGACY OF CATHERINE THE GREAT 31 July – 8 November 2015NGV InternationalMELBOURNE WINTER MASTERPIECES

Masterpieces from the Hermitage: The Legacy of Catherine the Great showcases one of the world’s greatest art collections. Featuring works by artists including Rembrandt, Rubens, Velázquez and Van Dyck, the exhibition offers over 500 outstanding works including the finest group of Dutch and Flemish art to come to Australia.This Melbourne-exclusive exhibition highlights the innovative vision of Catherine the Great, whose inexhaustible passion for education, the arts and culture heralded a period of enlightenment in the region. The extraordinary works sourced and commissioned by Catherine during her thirty-four-year reign created the foundations for the Hermitage – considered today to be one of the world’s greatest treasure houses of art and decorative arts.The exhibition design will offer audiences an immersive experience, recreating the exquisite environment and rich atmosphere of the Hermitage museum.

(opposite) Rembrandt Harmensz. van RijnDutch 1606–69Young woman trying on earrings 1657 (detail)oil on wood panel39.5 х 32.5 cmThe State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (Inv. no. ГЭ-784)Acquired from the collection of the Comte de Baudouin, Paris, 1781

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CARLOS AMORALES: WE’LL SEE HOW ALL REVERBERATESAugust – November 2015NGV InternationalFREEENTRY

Renowned Mexican artist Carlos Amorales will present a dynamic, interactive sculpture as part of the NGV’s ongoing series of contemporary installations in the foyer of NGV International. Recalling the mid-century modernist forms of Alexander Calder, We’ll see how all reverberates 2012 takes the form of three suspended mobile sculptures balanced by copper Zildjian cymbals. Visitors are invited to create and perform experimental percussive compositions through musical gongs, producing sound and movement within the space.Reflecting the artist’s interest in the chance poetics of Dada and the inter-disciplinary happenings of the Fluxus movement, We’ll see how all reverberates invokes a democratic, playful and anarchic impulse, encouraging audience members to become actors and performers. The work has been recently acquired by the NGV and travels to Australia following presentations in major exhibitions in Shanghai, New York, Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) and Mexico City.Carlos Amorales’ We’ll see how all reverberates 2012 is presented as part of the NGV’s ongoing series of Federation Court commissions and made possible with generous support from the Loti & Victor Smorgon Fund.Carlos Amorales, We’ll see how all reverberates, 2012

© courtesy the artist and Kurimanzutto, Mexico City

THE HORSE14 August – 8 November 2015NGV InternationalFREEENTRY

The Horse is a playful and enlightening exhibition celebrating the role this majestic animal has played in the development of human civilisation throughout millennia. Drawn from the holdings of each department within the National Gallery of Victoria’s Collection the exhibition will present a wunderkammer of the horse, tracing depictions and celebrations of this magnificent animal through works spanning a 3000-year period.From noble steed to the work-horse, the exhibition begins with ancient depictions in Greek mythology, segueing to China during the Han and Tang dynasties, then turning to India during the Mughal Empire (1526–1827). The Horse will also explore the animal’s more recent manifestations ranging from horseracing to the glamour of equestrian imagery in today’s fashion world. Panoramic in its breadth and encyclopedic in its scope, the exhibition ranges from ancient Greek vases, photographs and major oils on canvas, to saddles, sculptures, riding garments and a Melbourne Cup.

Lucy Kemp-Welch, Horses bathing in the sea 1900 (detail). © Estate of Lucy Kemp-Welch

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JOHN WARDLE ARCHITECTS: EPHEMERAL ARCHITECTURE COMMISSION 2015 September 2015 – late April 2016Grollo Equiset Garden, NGV International

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The Ephemeral Architecture Commission is a new annual initiative offering the opportunity for emerging and established practitioners to design and present innovative designs for a temporary outdoor installation in the NGV’s Grollo Equiset Garden. For 2015 the inaugural commission has been developed by John Wardle Architects. Taking inspiration from the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, an iconic public performance venue in Melbourne, Wardle’s innovative steel, timber and textile structure will create a theatrical centrepiece offering shade, retreat and a place for performance and workshops. Adaptable and evocative, the structure utilises parametric design to achieve the generous span of a lightweight structure. Beneath the outer layer of gridded steel, textile elements immerse visitors within a singular space. This commission is possible with support from The Spotlight Foundation.The NGV Garden is generously supported by Loris Orthwein.

PLEASURE & REALITYSeptember 2015 – February 2016The Ian Potter Centre: NGV AustraliaFREEENTRY

Pleasure & Reality brings together new and recent work by five leading Australian contemporary artists: Tony Garifalakis, Nathan Gray, Helen Johnson, Marian Tubbs and Justene Williams. Presenting the latest practices in contemporary art, Pleasure & Reality will include immersive installations, sculpture, video and painting, from Marian Tubbs’ seductive digital compositions to Justene Williams’ hallucinatory performative video works. The exhibition will also include Nathan Gray’s multi-channel video installation Species of Spaces 2013–14; filmed amongst the abandoned and forgotten spaces of Cockatoo Island, the work reconfigures the sounds of the island into an experimental soundscape. Pleasure & Reality reflects the five artists’ shared interest in generating new meanings from everyday images and objects, through works which offer fresh perspectives on the contemporary world.

(left) Tony Garifalakis, Untitled #1 from the Bloodline series, 2014 (detail) © Courtesy of the artist

(right) Tony Garifalakis, Untitled #2 from the Bloodline series, 2014 (detail) © Courtesy of the artist

RIGG DESIGN PRIZE 201518 September 2015 – February 2016The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

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Rigg Design Prize will celebrate the most interesting object and furniture design being explored in Australia today. Showcasing seven of Australia’s leading contemporary designers, each artist will present a significant body of work in seven dedicated and immersive spaces. The shortlisted designers for the Rigg Design Prize 2015 comprise: Adam Goodrum (NSW), Brodie Neill (TAS), Daniel Emma (SA), Kate Rohde (VIC), Khai Liew (SA), Korban/Flaubert (NSW), and Koskela (NSW) in collaboration with the weavers of Elcho Island Arts (NT).Daniel Emma will present a small dwelling complete with furniture and objects designed by the pair. For acclaimed furniture designer Khai Liew the visitor can imagine entering a dark, quiet, sacred space where his finely crafted pieces seem to levitate in the space. Kate Rohde will present a life-sized diorama with an exuberant Palace of Versailles-style dining room of table, chairs and mirrors injected with kaleidoscopic colour. The triennial prize, the highest accolade for contemporary design in Australia, awards $30,000 to an Australian contemporary designer displaying outstanding creative achievements in design production. Established in 1994 by Colin and Cecily Rigg, the invitational prize, for the first time, includes designers from across Australia. The Rigg Design Prize is generously supported by the Cicely & Colin Rigg Bequest, managed by Equity Trustees.

(above) Brodie Neill, Reverb chair 2009 © courtesy of the artist

(opposite) Kate Rohde, Hoof and Antler vase, 2013. Photo: Andrew Barcham © courtesy of the artist

OUR LAND IS ALIVE: HERMANNSBURG POTTERS FOR KIDS19 September 2015 – April 2016The Ian Potter Centre: NGV AustraliaNGVKIDS

Our Land is Alive: Hermannsburg Potters for Kids is an exciting collaboration with the renowned Hermannsburg Potters of the Northern Territory, who recently celebrated twenty-five years of producing their unique clay and terracotta pots. Through a shared love of Australian Rules football, Hermannsburg Potters for Kids will bring together the two passionate communities of Melbourne and Hermannsburg. The exhibition will present a major NGV commission of twenty AFL-themed Hermannsburg pots which depict iconic moments for Aboriginal players in the AFL, such as the celebrated image of Nicky Winmar lifting his shirt and proudly pointing to the colour of his skin at Victoria Park in 1993. The exhibition will also include a full clay model of the historic Hermannsburg Mission church, as well as a vibrant display of AFL paraphernalia, photography and footage. Children and families can participate in a hands-on making activity and, throughout the exhibition, meet and engage with some of the Hermannsburg Potters themselves, who will be artists-in-residence at the NGV. Our Land is Alive: Hermannsburg Potters for Kids is generously supported by The Dewhurst Family. The NGV Kids program is supported by the Truby & Florence Williams Charitable Trust.

(above) Hermannsburg Potters at the Old Church in Hermannsburg (L to R: Hayley Coulthard, Beth Inkamala, Rahel Ungwanaka, Lindy Rontji, Judith Inkamala and Rona Rubuntja). Photo: Tobias Titz

(opposite) Rona Rubuntja, I’m Black, 2015 (work in progress). Photo: Tobias Titz

RICHARD MOSSE: THE ENCLAVEOctober 2015 – February 2016NGV International FREE ENTRY

Commissioned for the Irish representation at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and recently acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria, The Enclave is an immersive, six-screen video art installation by Irish contemporary artist Richard Mosse. Partly inspired by Joseph Conrad’s modernist literary masterpiece Heart of Darkness, the visceral and moving work was filmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo using 16mm colour infra-red film, which captures otherwise invisible parts of the spectrum. The resulting imagery in Mosse’s work is hallucinatory and dream-like with the usual greens of jungle and forest replaced by shimmering violet. The Enclave depicts a complicated, strife-ridden place in a way that reflects its complexity, using a strategy of beauty and transfixion to combat the wider invisibility of a conflict that has claimed so many.

(above) Richard Mosse, The Enclave, 2012–13 (still)

(opposite) Richard Mosse, Higher ground, 2012

© Richard Mosse / courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

LURID BEAUTY: AUSTRALIAN SURREALISM AND ITS ECHOESOctober 2015 – January 2016The Ian Potter Centre: NGV AustraliaEXHIBITION ADMISSION FEES APPLYMAJOR EXHIBITION

Surrealism was one of the most influential artistic movements of the 20th century. Noted for their experimental and playful approaches, Surrealist artists sought to challenge artistic conventions, opening their work to unexpected results and to the accidental image. Through techniques such as automatic drawing and collage, artists worked with the aim of liberating the unconscious mind to effect social and political revolution; others created hallucinatory and dream-like images to reveal their innermost desires.Surrealism shook up the staid Australian art world of the 1930s and attracted a generation of young radicals who went on to become some of the Australia’s most esteemed artists. Surrealism’s echoes and reverberations continue to be felt into the present day, with its rich legacy evident in the practice of some of Australia’s most exciting contemporary artists.Lurid Beauty will present over 200 paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures, fashion, films and photographs as well as considering theatre and performance in an exuberant exploration of Surrealism and its profound influence on Australian art and creative life. Juxtaposing historical and contemporary works, the immersive exhibition will showcase the work of artists including Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Max Dupain, Erik Thake, James Gleeson, Julie Rrap, Pat Brassington, Leigh Bowery and David Noonan.

(above) Pat Brassington, Voicing, 2001 (detail). National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased with funds arranged by Loti Smorgon for Contemporary Australian Photography, 2001. © Pat Brassington, courtesy Stills Gallery, Sydney and Arc One Gallery, Melbourne

(opposite) Dusan Marek, Scientific priest 1965 (detail). National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Presented through the NGV Foundation by The Agapitos/Wilson Collection, Member, 2000. © Courtesy of the artist’s estate

(following) James Gleeson, We inhabit the corrosive littoral of habit 1940 (detail). National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Anonymous gift, 1941. © Courtesy of the artist’s estate

BLUE: ALCHEMY OF A COLOURNovember 2015 – March 2016NGV InternationalFREEENTRY

Cobalt blue pigment and indigo blue dye are two of the most distinctive and influential colourants employed by artists worldwide. Blue: Alchemy of a Colour will explore how artists have created works in the desirable blue and white palette using a wide range of methods and styles, to produce unique and exquisite works of art. On display in the Rio Tinto Gallery of Asian Art, Blue will reveal the fascinating metamorphosis of pattern, form and motif stemming from the global trade of these works, and the tales told through the use of this colour in ceramics, textiles, woodblock prints and paintings.The exhibition will focus on works from the NGV Asian Art Collection and include Persian, Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese ceramics, indigo dyed textiles from China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and India, and selected works from Egypt, England and Italy.

Japanese, Summer kimono, Yukata, Meiji period 1868-1912

JESS JOHNSON5 December 2015 – 31 January 2016NGV InternationalFREEENTRY

Enter the Wurm Haus – an immersive, reality-warping space created by New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based artist Jess Johnson. Ixian Gate is the extraordinary centrepiece of the exhibition, where visitors are invited to don virtual reality headsets and immerse themselves in Johnson’s 360-degree, dystopic world. Using Oculus Rift technology visitors will be submerged in an altered reality, with the walls of the exhibition creating an additional layer through geometric patterning, visual motifs and a suite of drawings. The unexpected world created by Johnson reflects her interest in science fiction, parallel universes, outsider art and comic books.

Jess Johnson, Gilgamesh, 2015 (detail) © courtesy of the artist, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, and Ivan Anthony, Auckland

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DESIGN STUDIO November 2015The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia

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PARALLELS – JOURNEYS INTO CONTEMPORARY MAKING 17–18 September 2015National Gallery of VictoriaDESIGNEVENT

In November 2015 the NGV will open a new dedicated space, presenting a diverse program of design and architecture-related content. The NGV Design Studio will be a flexible space to explore and represent key ideas and issues in design and architecture and in doing so enhance the appreciation for contemporary design. Content will range from retrospective exhibitions on seminal practitioners, to reactive projects, installations and thematic exhibitions exploring contemporary issues. Upcoming exhibitions will ask how architecture can unite a community, how designers can address the problem of ocean pollution and consider how design helps us find solitude in an increasingly urbanised world.

In partnership with the National Craft Initiative, the National Gallery of Victoria presents an international event exploring the future of contemporary craft and design.Informative, inspirational, and provocative, Parallels asks world-leading speakers to share their stories, articulate new mindsets, and reveal the priorities and opportunities they see emerging for the convergent worlds of craft and design.Presentations range across broad terrains – from the hand made to the industrial, from studio practice, curation, technology, and retail strategy, to online markets, international exhibiting, limited editions, collectors and more. Key speaker include Wava Carpenter of L’ArcoBaleno and Design Miami (USA); Trevyn & Julian McGowan of Southern Guild (South Africa); Brodie Neill of Made in Radio (London); Cyril Zammit of Design Days Dubai (UAE); Antonio Arico (Milan, Italy); Gijs Bakker (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Simone Farresin & Andrea Trimarchi of Formafantasma (Amsterdam, The Netherlands); Mavis Ganambarr of Elcho Island Arts (Elcho Island, NT); Simon Hasan of Craft & Industry (London, England); Shun Horoki of the East Japan Project (Tokyo, Japan).

ANDY WARHOL AI WEIWEINational Gallery of Victoria, MelbourneIn collaboration with The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USANational Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 11 December 2015 – 24 April 2016The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh June – August 2016EXHIBITION ADMISSION FEES APPLY

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A major international exhibition featuring two of the most significant artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries – Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei – will open at the National Gallery of Victoria in December 2015 and The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh in June 2016. Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei, developed by the NGV and the The Warhol, with the participation of Ai Weiwei, will explore the significant influence of these two exemplary artists on modern art and contemporary life, focussing on the parallels, intersections and points of difference between the two artists’ practices. Surveying the scope of both artists’ careers, the NGV exhibition will present over 300 works, including major new commissions, immersive installations and a wide representation of painting, sculpture, film, photography, publishing and social media. For the exhibition a suite of major commissions by Ai Weiwei will be premiered and presented alongside key works from the past four decades. It will represent the most comprehensive representation of the artist’s work in Australia to date. Over 200 of Warhol’s most celebrated works will be featured, including paintings and silk-screens such as Campbell’s Soup, Electric Chair, Mao, Elvis, Flowers and celebrity portraits, sculpture and installation, and an extensive selection of film, music and publishing; including previously unseen work. The exhibition will also bring together a wide range of photography including over 500 Polaroids documenting Warhol’s friends, colleagues, artistic and social milieux.

(above) Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995 (detail). © Ai Weiwei

(above) Andy Warhol, American 1928–87, Campbell’s Soup II: Tomato-Beef Noodle O’s, 1969, screen print on paper, 35 x 23 in. (88.9 x 58.4 cm.). The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., © 2015 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney.

(following) Ai Weiwei, Forever Bicycles at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2011. Image courtesy Ai Weiwei studio. © Ai Weiwei

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James Gleeson, The attitude of lightning towards a lady-mountain, 1939 (detail). National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Purchased with the assistance of James Agapitos OAM and Ray Wilson OAM. © Courtesy of the artist’s estate

EXHIBITION TITLE OPENS CLOSES VENUE

Nordic Cool: Modernist Design 28 Feb 2015 31 Dec 2015 NGV International

Shifting Gear: Design, Innovation and the Australian Car (ticketed)

6 Mar 2015 12 Jul 2015 The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

The Kaleidoscopic Turn 20 Mar 201 23 Aug 2015 The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

Exquisite Threads: English Embroidery 1600s–1900s 2 Apr 2015 12 Jul 2015 NGV International

Indigenous Art: Moving Backwards into the Future 4 Apr 2015 4 Oct 2015 The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

Medieval Moderns: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 11 Apr 2015 12 Jul 2015 NGV International

John Wolseley – Heartlands and Headwaters 11 Apr 2015 20 Sep 2015 The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

Follow the Flag: Australian Artists and War 1914–45 24 Apr 2015 16 Aug 2015 The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

Gods, Heroes and Clowns: Performance and Narrative in South and Southeast Asian Art

1 May 2015 4 Oct 2015 NGV International

Transmission: Legacies of the Television Age 15 May 2015 13 Sep 2015 NGV International

Ryan Trecartin: Re’Search Wait’s 15 May 2015 13 Sep 2015 NGV International

Open House: Tromarama for Kids 23 May 2015 18 Oct 2015 NGV International

Bunyips and Dragons: Australian Children’s Book Illustrations

25 Jul 2015 4 Oct 2015 The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2015:Masterpieces from the Hermitage: The Legacy of Catherine the Great (ticketed)

31 Jul 2015 8 Nov 2015 NGV International

Carlos Amorales: We’ll see how all reverberates Aug 2015 Nov 2015 NGV International

The Horse 14 Aug 2015 8 Nov 2015 NGV International

Our Land is Alive: Hermannsburg Potters for Kids

19 Sep 2015 April 2016 The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

Rigg Design Prize 2015 18 Sep 2015 Feb 2016 The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

Pleasure & Reality Sep 2015 Feb 2016 The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

John Wardle Architects: Ephemeral Architecture Commission 2015

Sep 2015 late Apr 2016 NGV International

Richard Mosse: The Enclave Oct 2015 Feb 2016 NGV International

Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and its Echoes (ticketed)

Oct 2015 Jan 2016 The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

Blue: Alchemy of a Colour Nov 2015 Mar 2016 NGV International

Jess Johnson 5 Dec 2015 31 Jan 2016 NGV International

Andy Warhol Ai Weiwei (ticketed) 11 Dec 2015 24 April 2016 NGV International