Title

Power and Imagination: Conceptual Art

Venues

National Gallery Of Australia (11 August 2019 – 19 May 2019)

Date

(2019)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (VIC). Paintings; Prints; Sculpture

Curator

Pitt, Elspeth.

Web address

https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/power-and-imaginat…

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

The experimental practices broadly referred to as conceptual art are among the most enigmatic and compelling of our recent art history. Employing film and video, language and poetry, performance and bodily gesture, conceptual artists emphasised idea and experience over fixed material form. In doing so, they radically transformed the nature of art in the 1960s and 1970s.

> Informed by imaginative acts, archaic and alternate models of thought, the assembled works resonate with the artist Sol LeWitt's belief that 'irrational judgements lead to new experience', and that 'conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists' as 'they leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach'.

Demonstrating that conceptual art and its challenge to intellectual and material convention remain key touchstones for contemporary practice, this project exhibition includes a parallel suite of workshop, performance and publishing activities by artists Bonita Ely, Brian Fuata, Agatha Gothe-Snape and Alex Hobba, among others.

[National Gallery of Australia media, 2018].

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09 Aug 2024