News 2016
February
FANTASTIC WORLDS
12 December 2015 – 14 February 2016
Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland
Fantastic Worlds brings together the work of eleven contemporary Australian sculptors, who each pose new and strange possibilities for the world around us.
NICHOLAS FOLLAND, CAROLINE ROTHWELL
Image:
Caroline Rothwell
Tygers (set of 3) 2010
Bronze automotive paint and lacquer
Photo: Christian Cappuro
February
PATRICIA PICCININI
2 February – 27 June 2016
ComSciencia
CCBB Brasilia, Brazil (2 Feb 2016 – 4 April 2016)
CCBB Rio de Janeiro (19 Apr 2016 – 27 Jun 2016)
Patricia Piccinini’s first major solo exhibition in Brazil brings together sculptures, video, photography and drawing from the past 15 years of her practice. The title is a neologism in Portuguese, combining the ideas of science, conscience and consciousness alluding to Piccinini’s interest in empathy, ethics and humaness in the contemporary world.
January
PATRICIA PICCININI
22 September 2015 – 4 September 2016
Weird and Wonderful
From the Olbricht Collection
Museum Folkwang, Museumsplatz 1, 45128 Essen, Germany
Thomas Olbricht shares his personal take on the large installation Helm/Helmet/Yelmo by Los Carpinteros.
Olbricht has chosen his favourite objects from his astonishingly eclectic collection, in a selection based on highly subjective decisions and personal tastes.
January
PATRICIA PICCININI
22 September 2015 – 4 September 2016
NEW ROMANCE, ART FROM AUSTRALIA AND KOREA
New Romance: Art and the Posthuman
MMCA Seoul 22 September – 20 December 2015
MCA Australia 30 June – 4 September 2016
Image:
The Welcome Guest 2011
Silicone, fibreglass, human hair, clothing, taxidermied peacock, bed
Dimensions variable
January
BROOK ANDREW
30 October 2015 – August 2016
EVIDENCE
In the studio at Spacecraft, Melbourne, making new soft sculpture artworks for a new installation commission EVIDENCE at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney
EVIDENCE accompanies Disobedient Objects from the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
January
BROOK ANDREW
25 November 2015 – 10 April 2016
Artist and Empire
Tate Britain, London
A major exhibition of art associated with the British Empire from the 16th century to the present day.
Image:
The Island I 2008
Mixed media on linen
250 x 300 x 5 cm
January
ROSEMARY LAING
7 October 2015 – 21 January 2016
About Trees
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
Curators: Peter Fischer and Brigitt Bürgi
With works by Carlos Amorales, Ursula Biemann und Paulo Tavares, Merijn Bolink, Louise Bourgeois, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Mark Dion, Peter Doig, Valérie Favre, Anya Gallaccio, Rodney Graham, Katie Holten, John Isaacs, Naoko Ito, William Kentridge, Anselm Kiefer, Paul Klee, Rosemary Laing, Žilvinas Landzbergas, Ndary Lo, Paul McCarthy, Ana Mendieta, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Paul Morrison, Shirin Neshat, Jill Orr, Renzo Piano, Pipilotti Rist, Ugo Rondinone, Julian Rosefeldt, Michael Sailstorfer, George Steinmann, Wolfgang Tillmans, Su-Mei Tse, Shinji Turner-Yamamoto.
Image: Rosemary Laing groundspeed (Red Piazza) #4 2001 C Type photograph 110 x 219 cm
