NGV Triennial 2020 installation view of Kengo Kuma & Associates, Tokyo and Paris (architecture studio); Kengo Kuma (designer); Geoff Nees (artist) <em>Botanical pavilion</em> 2020 (left), Commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Proposed acquisition with funds donated by Connie Kimberley and Craig Kimberley OAM, 2020 and Lee Ufan <em>Dialogue</em> 2017 (right) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Purchased with funds donated by Andrew and Judy Rogers and Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest, 2020<br/>
© Kengo Kuma and Geoff Nees © Lee Ufan, courtesy of Pace Gallery. Photo: Tom Ross

The Cosmos in a Single Stroke

Sat 27 Feb 21, 4pm–4.30pm

NGV Triennial 2020 installation view of Kengo Kuma & Associates, Tokyo and Paris (architecture studio); Kengo Kuma (designer); Geoff Nees (artist) <em>Botanical pavilion</em> 2020 (left), Commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Proposed acquisition with funds donated by Connie Kimberley and Craig Kimberley OAM, 2020 and Lee Ufan <em>Dialogue</em> 2017 (right) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Purchased with funds donated by Andrew and Judy Rogers and Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest, 2020<br/> © Kengo Kuma and Geoff Nees © Lee Ufan, courtesy of Pace Gallery. Photo: Tom Ross
Past program

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Exhibition space
Ground Level

Matter and motion are all that the cosmos is, and so it is for a painting. In the paintings by Lee Ufan the micro and macro, the singular and the infinite, the body and spirit seem to blur. How can we make sense of the gesture in Lee Ufan’s painting?

Nikos Papastergiadis, Director of the Research Unit in Public Cultures and Professor at the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, in conversation with Dr Simon Maidment, NGV Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, explores the significance of context and form, and invites a meditation from another perspective.

Speaker
Dr Simon Maidment, Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, NGV
Nikos Papastergiadis, Director of the Research Unit in Public Cultures and Professor at the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne
Talks Contemporary International NGV Triennial 2020