Exhibitions
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Displays from the state Art Collection |
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NOW OPEN |
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Your Collection 1800 – today marks a new beginning for the presentation of the State Art Collection. For the first time in the Gallery’s history, the Collection is presented in a series of interconnected chronological displays, starting in the Centenary Galleries and continuing through the entire ground floor of the main Gallery. Your Collection brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous art, craft and design from international, national and Western Australian contexts in new conversations. |
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William Kentridge Shadow quartet |
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Now on display in the Gallery concourse |
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Future Exhibitions |
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JEFF WALL Photographs |
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| 26 May to 10 September 2012 Jeff Wall is recognised as one of the most innovative and influential artists working today. Jeff Wall Photographs, this first Australian survey of his work brings together twenty-six photographs to present an overview of his outstanding achievements featuring key major works from over three decades of artistic and photographic innovation. Large-scale and luminous, his photographs have rewritten nearly every convention of photography. Wall’s outstanding body of work has played a decisive role in establishing photography as the major contemporary art form it is today. |
 Jeff Wall A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai) 1993, transparency in light box, 250 x 397, unique Tate, London, Purchased with the assistance from the Patrons of New Art through the Tate Gallery Foundation and from the National Art Collections Fund 1995,© Jeff Wall |
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Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters |
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| Opens 16 June 2012 As part of the Art Gallery of Western Australia’s Great Collections of the World series, the Gallery together with The Museum of Modern Art will present six world-class exhibitions over three years. The exciting partnership will launch its first, large-scale exhibition entitled Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters in June 2012. The launch exhibition will feature over 100 modern art masterpieces by 14 of the most iconic artists of the 20th century. |
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Luminous World - Contemporary Art from the Wesfarmers Collection |
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| 20 October 2012 - 11 February 2013 The Art Gallery of Western Australia is proud to partner with Wesfarmers to present Luminous World - Contemporary Art from the Wesfarmers Collection. The Wesfarmers Collection is amongst the pre-eminent corporate collections of Australian Art and reflects the vision of successive Managing Directors in developing and supporting such a major artistic resource. The contemporary area of this distinguished Collection is a notable strength and it is this aspect which the exhibition highlights. The exhibition will also provide a unique opportunity for visitors to the Gallery to view an innovative thematic selection of contemporary works from the Wesfarmers Collection and for Wesfarmers to share one of its great assets with the public across Australia. |
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Last reviewed 10 April 2012
