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EXHIBITIONS
East meets West
Rupert Bunny
Kaldor Public Art Projects
Tatzu Nishi
Contemporary collection
6 photographers
The Dreamers
 
EVENTS
Today - Wed. 10 Feb 2010
11am Rupert Bunny tour
12pm Kaldor projects tour
2pm Rupert Bunny tour
2pm Rupert Bunny film
3pm Rupert Bunny: Painting with Words
5.30pm Rupert Bunny exhibition talk
6pm Art and Australia course
6.30pm Rupert Bunny celebrity talk
7.15pm Rupert Bunny film
7.15pm Rupert Bunny tour
7.30pm Music in the Art Bar - Rupert Bunny
Tomorrow - Thu. 11 Feb 2010
11am Rupert Bunny tour
12pm Kaldor projects tour
1pm Art and Australia course
2pm Rupert Bunny tour
  

The Surreal Aesthetic

28 July - 14 October 2007
Lower Level 2
The original surrealists looked with fascination to the workings of the unconscious mind, seeking to liberate their imagination from convention and rationalism. Surrealist informed imagery resonates with the collision of supposedly opposed states: dream and reality, animate and inanimate, conscious and subconscious. The fluid and diverse imagery produced by the surreal aesthetic, linked by transformation and transgression, is explored through a selection of photographic works drawn from the collection. Photographs by Bill Brandt, Duane Michals, Pat Brassington feature alongside new acquisitions by Man Ray and Loretta Lux. Imbued with strange and disturbing qualities these works provoke and intrigue the imagination.

Mari Mahr 13 Clues to a fictitious crime circa 1940-1941 1984. No 5 from a series of 13 gelatin silver photographs. Gift of Edron Pty Ltd 1996 through the auspices of Alistair McAlpine
© Mari Mahr

 
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