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Tuesday 12 February 2013

EXHIBITIONS

Dadang Christanto
They give evidence

until 21 Jul 2013

A reprise of the confronting and moving, larger-than-life sculptures of human suffering by Dadang Christanto.

Francis Bacon
five decades

17 Nov 2012 – 24 Feb 2013

Surveying Bacon’s life and work, this is the first major exhibition in Australia of rare works by this towering figure of 20th-century art.

Jim Masselos South Asia Archive

Tue–Sat only 5 Feb – 4 May 2013

Research library and archive

Special hours

A collection of images on paper related to India, including prints, lithographs and chromolithographs, photographs, posters, paintings and drawings.

Papunya Tula
works on paper

13 Dec 2012 – 24 Mar 2013

Works from the early 1970s to a landmark 2009 print portfolio, including leading artists such as Timmy Payungka Tjapangati, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Doreen Reid Nakamarra and Naata Nungurrayi.

Soul of simplicity
seven centuries of Korean ceramics

until 21 Apr 2014

Discover the clarity of forms, understated elegance of decoration and subtlety of colour in these exquisite objects from the world’s most outstanding collections of Korean ceramics.

The fashion of Helmut Newton and Bettina Rheims

9 Feb – 19 May 2013

Over 50 works by two iconic fashion photographers, from the Gallery’s photography collection.

We used to talk about love
Balnaves contemporary: photomedia

31 Jan – 21 Apr 2013

This exhibition of photomedia, video, collage, sculpture and installation considers the variegated terrain of love’s language – joy, elation, desire, eroticism, longing, loss, melancholia and memory.

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