The National Gallery Of Victoria’s (NGV) spring/summer season will enliven NGV International and The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia throughout the warmer months, with a dynamic programme of exhibitions, collection displays, events and more.
Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse will be the centrepiece of the season, which will present never-before-seen world premiere works by leading contemporary artists and major exhibitions which examine popular artists and artworks, in exciting, unexpected ways.
The Alexander McQueen exhibition is the first partnership between the Los Angeles Museum Of Art and the NGV. It features more than 110 designs by McQueen alongside more than 70 works of art, including painting, sculpture, photography, and decorative arts.
Richard Mosse’s world premiere moving image work Broken Spectre is a powerful response to the devastating ongoing impact of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest. It’ll be presented across a 20-metre panorama widescreen, depicting three visually arresting narratives that were filmed over three years in the Amazon Basin.
Meanwhile, Jewellery And Body Adornment From The NGV Collection highlights the power of one of the oldest known art forms. It presents jewellery making traditions and body adornment practices across different material, cultural and geographical contexts.
Richard Mosse, Broken Spectre - 2022 (still) - Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
The Global Life Of Design investigates the influence of global trade and exchange on design traditions from the early modern era to current day. It draws upon works from the NGV Collection, and highlights how are and design have been shaped by the movement of people and resources.
For the inaugural commission of the MECCA x NGV Women In Design, world-leading Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao will create a large-scale architectural installation entitled La rope such se lava en casa (Dirty clothes are washed at home). The installation incorporates hand-made textiles and drawing with architectural structures, drawing attention to ideas of labour, community and gender.
The Riggs Design Prize 2022 is the first major exhibition of advertising and communication design in NGV’s history. It brings together and highlights the creativity that underpins the work of eight Australian-based agencies. The 2022 Prize reveals the capacity of advertising to influence contemporary life, society and culture, asking eight agencies to respond to a brief highlighting the centrality of creativity in shaping our world.
Juxtaposing the NGV’s historical and contemporary collection of Chinese art and design is China - The past is present. It emphasises the legacy of Chinese cultural and artistic traditions, and their ongoing influence in contemporary Chinese culture.
Wearing a mask at the end of the Spanish flu, no. 1 - 2020 - inkjet print. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2021 © Scotty So
One of Australia’s most significant abstract landscape painters is Fred Williams – yet, his work as draughtsman of the human figure is less known. Fred Williams: The London Drawings reveals the full range and power of his drawing oeuvre.
In November, the annual NGV Architecture Commission returns for its seventh iteration with Adam Newman and Kelvin Tsang’s Temple Of Boom. Then, in December, Freedom Of Movement: Contemporary Art And Design From The NGV Collection will feature more than 60 works of recently collected art and design by some of the most recognisable names working today, including nendo, Shilpa Gupta, Erwin Wurm, KAWS and Alex Prager.
“Human creativity is rarely stagnant. Throughout history, artists and designers have pushed the boundaries of artistic practice in search of new forms of expression,” NGV Director Tony Ellwood AM says. “From the clothes we wear, the buildings we live in, to how we communicate, our spring/summer season is a celebration of creative innovation – and the innovators who have, and continue to, defy convention.”
The NGV spring/summer season 2022-23 is on display at NGV International (Melbourne).
