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Featuring paintings and photographs by leading international artists, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Kiki Smith, Damien Hirst, Ed Ruscha and Cindy Sherman, this exhibition is selected from the UBS Art Collection, one of the world's finest corporate art collections. Exhibitions curated from this collection have previously been displayed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Tate Modern, London. This new exhibition, curated collaboratively with the National Gallery of Victoria, will highlight artworks that consider how we have shaped the world and how the world we have created shapes us.
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This exhibition reveals some of the themes that Anselm Kiefer is currently exploring in his
studio in France. One of these themes appears as a room dedicated to Palm Sunday, with painting
and sculpture, using mixed media such as date palms, thorns, clay and red oxide. The Gallery's
new major works, both titled
Von den Verlorenen gerührt, die der Glaube nicht trug, erwachen die Trommeln im Fluss,
are two separate but closely related pieces that represent
an enduring theme in Kiefer's work where the horizon represents the meeting of the material
(earth) and immaterial (heaven), resulting in a moment of transcendence. The first is a relief
painting, including broken concrete steps that miraculously hover near the horizon like a
failed stairway from earth to heaven. The second is a floor piece donated by the artist that
represents a heavenly emanation, like a meteor shower that has landed on earth, consisting of
slivers of glass each inscribed with the number of an astronomical entity.
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