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Super Bodies: Heroic fashion from the 80s
Image: Iman in Thierry Mugler, Super Bodies
Iman wearing Jacket 1988, autumn–winter by Thierry Mugler Photo ROXANNE LOWIT©		   This exhibition pays tribute to the powerful, body–conscious and downright sexy styles that dominated fashion in the 1980s. Never before in the history of dress had women’s fashion combined wide, padded shoulders with curvaceous busts and tight waists to create a look that was as athletic as it was seductive.

NGV Artbeat Party: Super Bodies
Artbeat Members and their guests are invited to join us for an exclusive party. See the exhibition and enjoy wine, canapés and entertainment. Roger Leong, Curator, International Fashion & Textiles and Paola Di Triocchio, Assistant Curator will offer a brief introduction to the exhibition.
There are limited tickets, so book now. Bookings must close Wednesday 12 September, 5pm.

Date Friday 14 Sep, 7.30–10pm
Cost $50 / $65 Guest
Venue NGV International (enter via the Waterwall)
Dress A touch of 80s
Event Code AB300807
Image: Issey Miyake, Tokyo, 1971
ISSEY MIYAKE, Tokyo
(fashion house, est. 1971)
Issey Miyake
(designer, born Japan 1938)
Bustier 1980 autumn–winter
National Gallery of Victoria
Purchased, 1996
© Miyake Design Studio
 
Super Bodies Seminar: The Power and the Fashion
Date Saturday 15 Sep, 2.30–4.15pm
  • Dress for Success
    Roger Leong, Curator, International Fashion and Textiles, NGV
  • Dressed to Kill: Glamour in 1980s Fashion
    Liliana Pomazan, Lecturer in Fashion, RMIT University
  • Super Bodies
    Paola DiTrocchio, Assistant Curator, International Fashion and Textiles, NGV
Cost $25 NGV Member / $30 Guest / $27 Concession / $17 Student (includes afternoon tea)
Venue Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, NGV International
Event Code P07190
     
 

Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now

Dan Flavin
Dan FLAVIN
(American 1933–96)
untitled (to Jan and Ron Greenberg) 1972–73.
Yellow and green fluorescent light, edition 1/3,
246.4 x 213.4 x 25.4 cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Panza Collection.
© Dan Flavin/ARS, New York.
Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia.
Installation at National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Photo by Daniel Mahon		   Special ticket offer for NGV Members - receive two tickets for the price of one. This offer is valid for the first 500 Members to present a printout of this newsletter at the NGV ticketing desk and can be redeemed any day of the week from Friday 17 August

art after dark
See art in a different light every Wednesday when the NGV comes alive with a variety of talks, live performances, music, and great food, wine and cocktails. Students pay only $10 exhibition entry between 5–9pm on art after dark evenings. Hurry, exhibition closes 7 October.

Practical Workshops
Artist led workshops inspired by the diversity of style, materials and techniques seen in the Guggenheim exhibition. Create your own masterpiece to take home! All materials provided.
Colour Field Painting
Date Saturday 18 or Sunday 19 Aug,
10.30–12.30pm or 2.30–4.30pm
Cost $35 NGV Member / $40 Guest
Venue Information Desk, NGV International
Event code P07166 (10.30am) P07166.1 (2.30pm)
Abstract Expressionism
Date Saturday 25 Aug or Sunday 26 Aug,
10.30–12.30pm or 2.30–4.30pm
Cost $35 NGV Member / $40 Guest
Meet Information Desk, NGV International
Event code P07167 (10.30am) P07167.1 (2.30pm)

Free NGV Members Viewings
Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now
Date Saturday 15th Sep from 9–11am
Date Thursday 20th Sep from 4–7pm
No bookings required

We are delighted that the NGV Voluntary Guides will be available at these viewings to answer questions in the exhibition space.

Please note:
When entering NGV International you may be requested to check your bags into the Cloakroom. This is to ensure conservation of the artworks within the Guggenheim Collection.

     
 

NGV Shop
Image: Pyramid of Mugs, Pantone
Pantone mugs $17.95 NGV Members price. Availability of colours may differ to those shown in the picture. 		  Visit the NGV Shop for an outstanding range of books, homewares, kids stuff and fashion accessories. Discover the Pantone series of products including mugs, pencil cases, pencils, card holders, notebooks & erasers that all feature simple blocks of colour and the iconic pantone graphics and number.
Remember NGV Members receive 10% off on all purchases at both NGV Shops.
   
 

Special Offer for NGV Members

Image: This is England  

25 movie double passes to giveaway
This is England, tells the story of Shaun, a 12 year old kid growing up without a father in the north of England. Set during the summer holidays of 1893, the film charts his rites of passage from a scruffy misfit grieving the loss of his father into a shaven-headed thug whose anger and pain are embraced by the local skinhead fraternity.

Spend $20 or more in the NGV Shop and go into the draw to win a double pass to This is England.

   
 

Geoffrey Bartlett

Image: Geoffrey Bartlett Caged flamingo 2003 (detail)
Geoffrey Bartlett
Altar 2004-07 (detail)
Collection of the artist, Melbourne
© Courtesy of the artist
   From the giant Obelisk sitting atop the Focal Building in Melbourne’s CBD, to the light–filled Aurora at the Docklands, Geoffrey Bartlett is one of Melbourne’s most visible sculptors.

See more than 40 works that explore Bartlett’s studio practice from 1985 to the present. Entry to the exhibition is free.

Floor Talk: A Curators Perspective
Speaker David Hurlston, Curator, Australian Art
Date Friday 24 Aug, 12.30pm
Cost Free
Venue Exhibition space, Level 3, NGV Australia

Lecture: The Recent Sculpture
of Geoffrey Bartlett
Examine Bartlett’s sources and creative methods and discover the significance of his sculptural work.
Speaker Dr Ken Wach, Associate Professor, Creative Arts, The University of Melbourne
Date Saturday 22 Sep, 2pm
Cost $12 NGV Member / $18 Guest / $14 Concession / $10 Student
Venue Theatre, NGV Australia
Event code P07180
     
 

Special Offer for NGV Members

   

Special Gift Membership Offer
for Father’s Day
Give your Dad a one year NGV Membership this Father’s Day and he’ll also receive two tickets to see Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now (or any other paid NGV exhibition of his choice).

Individual Memberships $88, Duo Memberships $98
Ring NGV Members now on 8620 2233

   
 

Katie Pye


Katie Pye, fashion artist
born Australia 1952
Kabuki c.1980
Collection of National Gallery of Victoria
Photographer John Lethbridge
Image courtesy of John Lethbridge		   Straddling the boundaries between art and fashion, Katie Pye was an Australian fashion innovator throughout the 1980s.

This exhibition features over 25 outfits from the NGV Collection alongside contextual photography and video works. Entry to the exhibition is free.

Introductory Floor Talk
Speaker Laura Jocic, Assistant Curator, Australian Fashion & Textiles
Date Thursday 30 Aug, 12.30pm
Cost Free
Venue Exhibition space, Level 2, NGV Australia

For the Fashionistas: Exhibition Tour
To celebrate Spring Fashion Week and all things fashion join Danielle Whitfield for a special tour of Katie Pye: Clothes for Modern Lovers.
Speaker Danielle Whitfield, Acting Curator,
Australian Fashion & Textiles
Date Thursday 6 Sep, 4pm
Cost $12 NGV Member / $15 Guest
(includes glass of sparkling wine)
Meet Information Desk, NGV Australia
Event code P07177

     
 

Gordon Bennett

Image: Gordon Bennett
Gordon Bennett
Born Australia 1955
Notes to Basquiat (The coming of the light) 2001
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
152.0 x 152.0 cm
Collection of the artist, Brisbane
Photography: John O’Brien
© Courtesy of the artist 		  Take a journey through the complex and layered work of Gordon Bennett, one of Australia’s most critically engaged contemporary artists.

This retrospective exhibition will comprehensively present his work from 1987 to the present. Admission fees apply.

NGV Members Preview: Gordon Bennett
Date Wednesday 5 Sep, 2–5pm
Cost $5 NGV Member / NGV Member Family $12.50
Venue Exhibition Space, Level 3, NGV Australia
     
 

Special Offer for NGV Members

   

Parking Discount
NGV Members are now entitled to 20% off parking
at the Arts Centre Carpark.
Visit the members’ reception at
NGV International to receive your parking voucher.

   
 

Imaginary Prisons: G.B. Piranesi
and Vik Muniz
Image: Vik Muniz, Prisons XIV, the gothic arch, after Piranesi from the Prisons, after Piranesi series (detail), 2002
Vik Muniz
Brazilian 1961–, worked in United States 1983–
Prisons XIV, the gothic arch, after Piranesi from the Prisons, after Piranesi series (detail) 2002
Collection of the artist
Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York
© Vik Muniz
 		  On show in Australia for the first time, contemporary artist Vik Muniz’s large scale photographs are displayed alongside the works that inspired them: the great 18th century printmaker G.B. Piranesi’s Prisons series from the NGV Collection.

NGV Members After Hours Viewing
Join us for a glass of wine and hear Petra Kayser, NGV Coordinating Curator speak about the exhibition.
Date Friday 24 Aug, 6.30–8.30pm
(6.30pm drinks, 7pm brief introduction
followed by viewing)
Cost $30 / $45 Guest (includes food, beverages
and after hours access)
Venue Robert Raynor Gallery, Ground Level,
NGV International
     
 

Special Offer for NGV Members


Pictured: Gaylene Cummerfield & Matthew Lawrence Photography: Justin Smith		  

The Australian Ballet – Discount Tickets to Destiny
Destiny features two works, each saluting Leonide Massine, one of ballet’s most creative 20th century stars, and a mainstay of the famous Ballets Russes companies.
Dates Friday 31 Aug, Saturday 1 Sep, Monday 3 Sep & Tuesday 4 Sep
Venue The Arts Centre
Cost $81.60 A–Reserve / $69.70 B–Reserve
Phone 1300 136 166

   

Changeover of artworks in the Members Lounge
Please be advised, there will be a changeover of artworks in the Members Lounge at NGV International on Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 August. The Lounge will therefore be closed on these days. Please look out for information on NGV Member talks about the new hang in the next edition of NGV Members enews.
 
 

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