The relentless creative force that burns within Dale Frank has earned him a reputation as a trailblazer of contemporary art.

Documented for the first time, we are afforded a rare behind-the-scenes look into the life and work of Australia’s most eccentric and reclusive artist as he grapples with an ambitious exhibition deadline and the challenges of a debilitating illness.

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The emergence of a ‘new art’ at the dawn of the twentieth-century is represented by some of MoMA’s earliest acquisitions, including masterworks by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Paul Cézanne. Works by pioneering Cubist and Futurist artists, including Pablo Picasso and Umberto Boccioni, appear alongside the radically abstracted forms present in works by such artists as Lyubov’ Popova and Piet Mondrian, the surreal visual language of paintings by artists like Salvador Dalí and Frida Kahlo, and the spontaneity and tactility advanced in works by Alexander Calder and Jackson Pollock, and other prominent Abstract Expressionist artists.

Developments in art beginning in the 1960s, from Pop through Minimalism, are explored with the work of Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Lynda Benglis, and Sol LeWitt, among others. Significant works of late twentieth-century and early twenty-first century art, including pieces by Cindy Sherman, Keith Haring, Kara Walker, Rineke Dijkstra, Huang Yong Ping, El Anatsui and Camille Henrot, foreground ideas that inform much contemporary art, such as those around cultural and national identity, and mobility in a globalised world.

Throughout, these works of visual art are displayed alongside objects from MoMA’s Architecture and Design collection, many of which draw out concerns common to architects, designers and artists — creating a new visual language for the modern era. These include: a 1932 architectural model by Le Corbusier; graphic designs, furniture and textiles by artists involved in the influential workshops of the Bauhaus; Tomohiro Nishikado’s pioneering computer game Space Invaders (1978); and the original set of 176 emoji developed by Shigetaka Kurita in 1999.

Internationally exclusive to Melbourne, MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art is organised by Samantha Friedman (Associate Curator, Drawings and Prints, MoMA), Juliet Kinchin (Curator of Modern Design, MoMA), Christian Rattemeyer (The Harvey S. Shipley Miller Associate Curator of Drawings and Prints, MoMA) and Miranda Wallace (Senior Curator, International Exhibition Projects, NGV).

MoMA at NGV Exhibition: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art
9 June – 7 October 2018
NGV International – Ground Level
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Ink Remix explores how these artists are thinking about ink as a contemporary, dynamic and diverse form of visual expression, and what it means to contemporary society.

The exhibition features the work of 14 established and emerging artists from the region, who are pushing the boundaries of this practice.  In a multilingual experience, explore a wide range of media including painting, photography ink jet prints, video and animation, as well as unexpected materials such as Coca-Cola, tea and biro.

A touring exhibition organised by Canberra Museum and Gallery.

Ink Remix: Contemporary art from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong
Museum of Brisbane
16 September 2016 – 19 February 2017
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Major new artworks include Nervescape, a multi-coloured landscape of synthetic hair by Icelandic-born artist Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir a.k.a. Shoplifter, and the electrifying Heard by American sculptor and performance artist Nick Cave, a group of vibrant sculptural horses brought to life by dancers.

‘Sugar Spin’ also marks the return of Carsten Höller’s much-loved Left/Right Slide, spiralling visitors from the top floor of GOMA to the bottom; Ron Mueck’s oversized In bed; Olafur Eliasson’s interactive installation of thousands of white Lego pieces The cubic structural evolution project; and Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s musical installation of live finches, from here to ear (v.13) 2010.

Complex connections between humanity and the natural world are celebrated and reconceived in ‘Sugar Spin’ as it draws visitors between distinctive chapters – sweet-melt, white out, blackwater, soaring, garden and cosmos – establishing a dramatic itinerary through GOMA’s unique exhibition spaces, reflecting the urgent challenges of our day, as well as the beauty of the world we live in.

Sugar Spin Exhibition at GOMA
3 December 2016 – 17 April 2017
GOMA – Brisbane
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