Muholi Buzani–South African photographer and ‘visual activist’ self portrait
‘Victoria Amazonica’ at the NGV Triennial 2017, a collaboration between Yarrenyty Altere artists in Alice Springs, the Campana brothers in Sweden and Elliat Rich.
Photograph John Gollings
‘Victoria Amazonica’
Estudio Campana (Brazil), Yarrenyty Arltere Artists (Australia) and Elliat Rich (France); an important collaboration that draws upon the shared cultural motifs of the artists to create a brightly coloured upholstered dome, to be used as a meeting point and welcoming entrance to the NGV Triennial exhibition
NGV Trinnial
15 DEC 2017 – 15 APR 2018
Free Entry
The NGV is the oldest and most visited Australian art gallery. It occupies two locations: NGV International and NGV Australia, which are in close proximity to each other.
The 2017 NGV Triennial is one of the most ambitious Summer exhibitions that has been staged by the Melbourne gallery. Featuring the works of over 100 artists and designers from a spread of 32 countries, this huge event is occupying all 4 levels of the NGV International. This is the National Gallery of Victoria {NGV) first international Triennial of contemporary art and design and will showcase artistic brilliance and technical virtuosity in the fields of architecture, animation, performance, film, painting, drawing, fashion design, tapestry and sculpture.
The entrance will display a a seven-metre-wide steel dome structure clad in a universe of embroidered soft panels. A 15 foot long reclining Buddha sculpture, graced with the presence of white Roman Greco, Renaissance and Neoclassical statues, in a symbiosis of East and West, will reside in the NGV forecourt.
‘Moving creates vortices and vortices’ – Toshiyuki Inoko
An interactive and fully immersive digital installation created by TeamLab. NGV 2017
Twenty new works have been commissioned for the Triennial, from artists including Chinese couture artist Guo Pei, Japanese collective teamLab, Polish performance artist Paulina Olowska, Canadian Sascha Braunig, South African photographer Zanele Muholi, Chinese sculptor and installation artist Xu Zhen, and Argentian artist Alexandra Kehayoglou – who will create a 100m2 topographical carpet landscape. Local artists will include Ben Quilty, Brodie Neill, Büro North, the Yarrenyty Arltere Artists, Louisa Bufardeci, the Bula’bula Artists, Reko Rennie, Riley Payne, Ron Mueck, Sean O’Connell, and Tom Crago.
Xu Zhen – ‘Eternity’ sculpture, Beijing
‘Eternity Buddha in Nirvana’…2016-17 — depicts the traditional reclining Buddha draped with replicas of Greco-Roman, Renaissance and Neoclassical statues. The 18 metres long, 15 tonnes giant sculpture by Chinese contemporary artist XuZhen, is being installed at the NGV forecourt. ‘I have always been curious about the differences between cultures and the alienation between them. And yet, misconceptions can be the beginning of awareness and understanding.’ Xu uses the colossal form of a reclining Buddha dating from the High Tang dynasty (705–781 CE). Tthe original was built into a manmade grotto, the Nirvana Cave near the Chinese city of Dunhuang,
Alexandra Kehayoglou, NGV Triennial. 2017
photo Ben Swinnerton
Alexandra Kehayoglou with her work ‘No Longer Creek’, 2016
Woven topographical rug
Photograph – Wayne Taylor
‘Mass’ by Ron Mueck—–NGV 2017
NGV Garden Wall 2017 – Retallack Thompson and architects
‘Saccades’ – Sascha Braunig
2014
Sascha Braunig, ‘Hilt’, 2015 oil on linen over panel
To form the basis for her paintings, Braunig fashions rudimentary forms from clay, sometimes draped with cloth and sequins, and then illuminates them with dramatically colored directional lighting. Immaculately rendered in luminous palettes, they project a distinct visual language informed by the legacies of Op-Art and Surrealism.
Sascha Braunig – ‘Troll’
2014
Dutch design and art collective ‘We Make Carpets’
The Dutch design and art collective is known for recognising the possibilities found in familiar household and everyday items – plastic forks, chalk, paper clips, dry pasta, wooden toothpicks – to be transformed into new and surprising installations
Domingos S. Kamulemba Tipo Pass – EdisonChagas
Guo Pei Legend collection,from her 2017-spring summer Couture show in Paris
Guo Pei with her 2017 Legend Collection
Photo Eugene Hyland
Guo Pei – Haute Couture
Chinese born fashion designer Guo Pei’s elaborate couture constructions reflect on the tradition of China in the contemporary age.
Guo Pei — Legend Collection, Spring 2017
photo – Rose Studio
‘Golden Goddess’ — Guo Pei (metallic fabric, silk, embroidery, crystals)-
Photo – Tim O’Connor – NGV 2017
Shilpa Gupta’s black ambiguous mass sculpture fuses thousands of microphones accompanied by a multi-channel choral and spoken-word recording
2017 NGV Triennial, @formafantasma presents Ore Streams, an ambitious investigation into the recycling of precious electronic waste
Ephrem Solomon Tegegn — ‘Adam and Eve’
Nendo Manga chairs (detail) 2015 | Courtesy Nendo and Friedman Benda, New York
Photo: Kenichi Sonehara
Ben Quilty’s ‘High Tide Mark’ at NGV Triennial
‘Fairy Bower Rorschach’ (2012) by Ben Quilty
Crystallization water dress by Iris van Herpen
Photo – Daphne Guiness and Nick Knight
Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen’s garments embody possibilities for the future of fashion. A pioneer in 3D printed garments, her theatrical designs merge the digital with traditional couturier craftsmanship.
Iris Van Herpen futuristic Dress 2011 on display at NGV Triennial 2017
photo Tom Ross
Haegue Yang, South Korea
Large tree portrait — Myoung Ho Lee
PET Lamp Ramingining NGV 2017 by PET Lamp and Bula’Bula Artists
Riley Payne — ‘Try to do the right thing (pizza)’
Uji Handoko Eko Saputro – sculpture
Hahan creates dynamic and colourful paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints that combine the aesthetics of traditional Javanese mythology with popular youth culture and underground comics.
Uji (Hahan) Handoko Eko Saputro’s work on display in NGV Triennial consists of paintings supported by life-size sculptures
Mei Yamanaka performing in “Slavic Goddesses — A Wreath of Ceremonies,” by Paulina Olowska, NY
Ołowska has worked across performance, sculpture, painting, neon and fashion to reappraise history and bring recognition to (female) artists.
Credit – Andrea Mohin/The New York Times
Yayoi Kusama
Tala Madan, Iran — ‘Dripping Flowers’
2016
Rich in narrative and heavy in irony, Tala Madani’s incisive paintings depict darkly comic and often theatrical mise en scénes in which bald, middle-aged men engage in absurd scenarios that fuse playfulness with violence and perversity.
Del Kathryn Barton – ‘The Highway is a Disco’
— showing at NGV Australia, Melbourne, until 12 March 2018
Art permanently located at NGV International
Alexander Archipenko — ‘Silhoeutte’
1910
‘Golden mirror carousel’ —Carsten Holler
Gareth Sansom — ‘Transformer’ – expressionistic tapestry
NGV
Alessandro Algardu — ‘Flageellation group’
Benjamin Robert Haydon — ‘Marcus Curtius’
1843
Alfred Gilbert — ‘Icarus’
c. 1889
‘Ariadne’ — Harold Parker
1919
Jean Paul Gaultier – ‘Lei Lady Lei’
Barbara Hepworth — ‘Eidos’
1947
Barbara Hepworth – ‘Figure 9 Oread’
1958
Greg Semu photo — ‘The Raft of the Tagata Pasifika’
‘Botanical figure II’ — Fiona Murphy
1994—stoneware vase
‘Cain and Abel’, double spouted Italian majolica ewer
Buddhist deity holding lotus – relief panel
Chinese Ming dynasty – 1368 1644
‘Ecstasy’ (Extase) — Andre Masson
1938
‘Evidence of origin – Elwin Dennis
1971
‘Flower dancer’ – Inge King
1948
‘Fukurokuju’ (God of wisdom) — porcelian, enamel and gilt figurine
Meiji period 1– 1868-1912
Galuma Maymuru — ‘Nyapilingu’
1999
‘Ganesha’ on a throne of cobras — Nepal
(17th-century)
‘Gorilla carrying off a woman’ — (Gorille enlevant une femme) — Emmanuel Fremet
1887
‘Half figure’ – Henry Moore, UK
1933
‘Hippolyta and the Amazons defeating Theseus’ — Jean Broome Norton
1933 Australia
Joseph Brown — ‘The Cave’
1970
Jean Broome Norton – ‘Abundance’
1934
Joseph Csaky 1919—cast 1960 Cubist sculpture
Keeley Halswelle — ‘Green Robed Senators’
c.1880
‘Kikim Kerker Maizab Kaur Ad Bami’ — Ago Anson, Norah Gada Sailor, Colina Sailor, Ina Pilot, Ruth Pau, May Stephen
1996
‘(Couronnede Bourgeons II) Crown of Buds II’ — Jean Arp
1936
‘Medusa’ — Barbara Trib
1931, Australia
‘Koku’ (Void) — Sugura Noriyoshi
2014
Lewis John Godfrey – ‘Lyrebird’
c,1895
Lucy Irvine — ‘Before the after’
2013
‘Magram le op’ – (The face of Magram) — Ricardo Idagi
Margaret Preston’s ‘Strelitzia’ (1925)
NGV
Michael Parekowhai — ‘Cosmo McMurtry’
2006
Michael Zurn II — ‘Madonna and Child’
c.1680-85
Morigami Jin – ‘Big Wave’
2014
‘Moses and the tablets‘ – Karl Duldig
1956
Figures,–Henry Moore
1932
‘Mythical Animal’
Northern Qi dynasty
550 CE – 577 CE
‘People in a wind’ — Kenneth Armitage
1950
‘Reclining figure No 7’ – Henry Moore
1979-80
‘Rings of Jupiter’ – Inge King
2006
SENOI people — ‘Air Spirit’
1965-75
‘St. Bartholemew’ — Lutz Presser
1980-81
‘St. Catherine’
Spain, Catalan 1350
‘St. Elizabeth of Hungary’ — Alfred Gilbert
1900-01
Tapio Wirkkala’s Kantarelli, vase (Chanterelle)
1946 (designed)
NGV
‘The confession of the Giaour’ – Eugene Delacroix
France 1825-40
‘The fallen idol’ — Alfred Gilbert
1915
‘The vintage festival’ – Lawrence Alma Tadema {2nd half below}
1871
‘The vintage festival’ – Lawrence Alma Tadema
Indian ‘Tree Goddess, Shalabhanjika’
1150-1200
‘Tree of life’ — Pino Conte
1961
Vincas Jomantas – ‘Blue Bird’
1957, Australia
‘Windows in the water’ — David Wilson
1986
Clive Travers Stephen—Art Deco sculpture
1940
NGV Collection
