12-Mar-10 2:00 PM  EST  

Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia 

The Metropolitan Museum:  Special Exhibit: 
Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia.  

   Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

   First Floor, 1000 Fifth Avenue

 

 

   This installation features fourteen bold and colorful paintings created

   by contemporary Aboriginal Australian artists. Drawn from a private

   collection in the US, the installation provides an introduction to

   Aboriginal painting, which has become Australia’s most celebrated

   contemporary art movement and has attained prominence within the

   international art world.

 

 

   The works on view—all of which have never before been on public

   display—were created primarily over the past decade by artists from the

   central desert, where the contemporary painting movement began, and from

   adjoining regions, to which the movement spread.

 

 

   On view are paintings by prominent artists, including some of the

   founders of the contemporary movement, as well as emerging figures. This

   is the first presentation of contemporary Australian Aboriginal painting

   to be held at the Metropolitan Museum.

 

 

   Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia is organized by Eric

   Kjellgren, the Evelyn A. J. Hall and John A. Friede Associate Curator

   for Oceanic Art in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and

   the Americas.

 

 

   For more information or to view images of the work:

 

   http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={452C913D-8AEC-4B57-94A3-456393973DA9}

 

 

For additional information on this Member News article, please contact:

Camille Cassel

Source: The Australian Consulate

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