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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
   Icon: Last Weeks
Over 1 million visitors have now visited the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition series. Exclusive to Melbourne, this is your last chance to see works gathered from Guggenheim museums from around the world. Now in its last weeks, Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now must close Sunday 7 October.

Exclusive Free Viewings for NGV Members
Saturday 15 Sep, 9am–11am
Thursday 20 Sep, 4pm–7pm
NGV Voluntary Guides will be available in the space to provide you with information about the exhibition.

art after dark
See art in a different light every Wednesday until 3 October when the NGV comes alive with a variety of talks, live performances, music, and fine food, wine and cocktails. NGV International will also be open until 9pm Thursday 4, Friday 5 and Saturday 6 October. Students pay only $10 exhibition entry between 5–9pm on art after dark evenings.
Highlight event not to be missed
Meccanoid Silver Factory Party
Featuring The Emergency (live) with DJs Glitch, Tonpee, NHJ and Quirk
Date Friday 5 Oct, 5–9pm
     
 

Small Worlds
Image: Iman in Thierry Mugler, Super Bodies
UNKNOWN (A. G. B.)
active in Italy (1850s)
No title (Roman Forum)
albumen silver photograph
24.6 x 19.2 cm (image)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through the NGV Foundation by Janice Hinderaker, Member, 2003 		  From the eternal cities of Europe, to mystical sites of the East and romantic images of Great Britain, Small Worlds invites you to embark on a journey through popular tourist destinations of the nineteenth century. Explore this extraordinary collection of travel photographs, many of which are on display for the first time.
Entry is free
     
     
 

NGV Members benefits brochure

Image: NGV Members benefits brochure   We are delighted to bring NGV Members some terrific additional benefits from other cultural organisations, food and wine outlets, travel and tour operators and retail and parking providers. Visit the NGV Members Lounge Reception and pick up your copy of the new NGV Members benefits brochure.

Participating organisations include:

  • Open Australia
  • Palace Cinemas
  • Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
  • Lake House, Daylesford
  • Yering Station
  • Montalto Winery
  • Living Italy Tours 2008
  • Qantas
  • Eckersley’s
  • Arts Centre Carpark…plus many more
   
 

Gordon Bennett

Image: Gordon Bennett Notes to Basquiat (The coming of the light) 2001
Gordon Bennett
Born Australia 1955.
Notes to Basquiat (The coming of the light) 2001.
Collection of the artist, Brisbane.
Photography John O’Brien.
© Courtesy of the artist		   Take a powerful 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 1989 to the present. Admission fees apply. NGV members $5 admission.

Unsettling Identities, Aboriginalities and other Contemporary Traumas: Gordon Bennett’s Aesthetic Prescriptions
This talk will examine the development of Bennett’s art since he graduated nearly twenty years ago, and its significant role in the shift from the artifice and mannerism of postmodernism to the reality and urgency of lived experience that characterises contemporary art. A particular focus will be Bennett’s interest in the contemporary affects of Australia’s traumatic origins.
Speaker Dr Ian McLean, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, The University of Western Australia
Date Thursday 18 Oct, 6pm for 6.30pm
Cost $24 NGV Member / $32 non–Member / $28 Concession / $24 Student (includes refreshments on arrival )
Event code P07196

     
 

Yvonne Audette – Different Directions
1954 – 1966

Yvonne Audette
Cantata no. 12: The Journey 1963 (detail).
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
© Courtesy of the artist
  
Yvonne Audette is one of Australia’s most accomplished and leading abstract artists. This exhibition of paintings and drawings will focus on Audette’s expatriate years, from experimentation with abstract forms to the lyrical calligraphic and graffiti works for which she is renowned. Entry is free.

NGV Members Exclusive: Yvonne Audette and Gerard Vaughan In Conversation
Hear about this important Australian artist and the extraordinary woman behind the art. Includes after hours viewing from 5.15–6pm.
Speakers Yvonne Audette and Gerard Vaughan, Director, NGV
Australian Fashion & Textiles
Date Wednesday 10 Oct, 6pm for 6.30pm
Cost $20 NGV Member / $25 Guest (includes refreshments on arrival)
Event M0734

     
 

An incomplete world: works from the UBS Art Collection

Image: Francesco Clemente, Perserverance
Francesco CLEMENTE
(Italian 1952–, worked in India,
Afghanistan and United States 1973–)
Perseverance 1981
Oil on canvas, 198.1 x 236.2 cm
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Partial and promised gift of UBS, 2002
© 2007 Francesco Clemente 		  Opens 28 September 2008
The UBS Collection represents a world in flux. Experience a space where the contrasting forces of order and chaos, of vulnerability and stability, and of nature and culture condition our sense of self and the spaces we inhabit. Entry is free.

Exclusive Members After Hours Viewing
Hear a brief introduction by Jane Devery, Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art and then view the exhibtion.
Date Friday 12 Oct, 6.30pm
Cost $30 NGV Member / $45 Guest (includes food, beverages and after–hours access)
Venue Mezzanine level, NGV International (enter via Waterwall)
Event code G121007

Free Curator Talk
Speaker Jane Devery, Assistant Curator,
Contemporary Art
Date Wednesday 10 Oct, 12.30pm
Venue Exhibition space, Level 3, NGV International
   
 

Special Movie ticket offer

Sunday 30 September at ACMI
 

Balkan Erotic Epic by Marina Abramovic 		 

50 double passes to giveaway
Destricted (Unclassified 18+)
Contains adult concepts and explicit sexual images.

Melbourne audiences now have the chance to experience one of the most controversial and topical films of recent years. Distilled by seven of the world’s leading art and film practioners including, Matthew Barney, Larry Clark, Gasper Noé, Richard Prince, Marina Abramovic and photographer Sam Taylor–Wood, these seven interpretations on pornography and eroticism, make for confronting, humorous and at times deeply poignant viewing.

Following a special final screening of this film, join Alexie Glass, Director Gertrude Street Gallery and a panel of guests to discuss the contested issues around representations of pornography in art and cinema.

Tell us in 25 words or less your thoughts about the Guggenheim Collection:1940s to Now exhibition and go into the draw to win a double pass to Destricted. Email your responses to artbeat@ngv.vic.gov.au

   
 

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