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National Gallery of Australia
About the National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Australia is an incredible national art gallery and museum which is located in Parkes Place, Canberra. The building was constructed in a long period of time. It was established in 1967 by the Australian government as a national public art gallery. The museum has an incredible design having a Brutalist style. It is characterized by angular masses and raw concrete surfaces and is surrounded by a series of sculpture gardens planted with Australian native plants and trees. The building is principally constructed of reinforced brush hammered concrete. Also, the interior walls have been covered with painted wood, to allow for increased flexibility in the display of artworks. The Museum has a fairly large area, about 23,000 m2 of floor space.
The main collections of National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Australia features a great number of collections, which really take your breath away. The museum is home to Australia’s national collection of art. It hosts permanent and international exhibitions, as well as a wide range of public programs and events. So here you can find Australian prints, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) art - you can view sculptures, prints, photography, ceramics, fashion, textiles and more, Pacific art, Australian art,European art and American art, international painting and sculpture, prints, drawings and illustrated books, TT Tsui collection of Chinese ceramics - an exhibition that portrays the complexity and ongoing evolution of Chinese burial rites, Indonesian textiles and the Provenance research project - questioning the origins of looted art from the period between 1933-1945.
Current exhibitions of National Gallery of Australia
The current exhibitions of National Gallery of Australia are very diverse. In recent years there have appeared new extremely interesting collections and exhibits. Now you can delight your eyes with the amazing collection of Connections exhibits. Connections explore the rich conversations that can take place between works of art across cultures, place and time. Islamic works of art are paired with others in the national art collection under themes such as calligraphy, geometry, color and the garden. Guests will discover the beauty and variety of Islamic art and will understand its influence around the world.
Another interesting collection is called Varilaku. This is an old collection by recently they added new artifacts and exhibits. Varilaku - Pacific arts from the Solomon Islands is the first major exhibition in Australia bringing together the finest traditional arts from the Solomons. There you can see also Ballets Russes: the art of costume – a major exhibition of the Gallery’s renowned collection of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes including costumes by artists Natalia Goncharova, Michel Larionov, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Georges Braque, André Masson and Giorgio de Chirico; Out of the West: Art of Western Australia from the national collection - is the first exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia to present a large sample of artists living and working in Western Australia. It takes a unique look at the art from Western Australia from pre-settlement until today; Fred Williams: Retrospective - is one of Australia’s greatest painters and this is the first major retrospective of Williams’ work in over 25 years.
Amazing exhibits of the Gallery
One of the interesting exhibits of the National Gallery of Australia is “Fruits of art”. This is a group of seven pears which lay on the footpath on the way to the National Gallery of Australia. This is an incredible monument and represent the fruits of art that lie within the gallery building: sculptures, paintings, drawings and illuminated text, glass forms. The pears were made by George Baldesin (1929-1978) who was born in Italy and lived in Australia from 1949 after having lived and worked in England, Italy, Brazil and France. This is a really great addiction to all the exhibits of the National Gallery of Australia.
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