In 1839 the French artist Paul Delaroche claimed that painting was dead. The first major Australian painting survey in 10 years reveals painting is very much alive.
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Ry David Bradley, NTBD #4 2015 and NTBD #12 2015; courtesy the artist and Tristian Koenig, Melbourne.
How new can painting be? So new and exhaustive that it has to be delivered in two chapters, is the answer that the Australian Centre Contemporary Art (ACCA) posits through a exhibition that corrals 75 living painters cheek-to-cheek in random configuration.
Co-curator Annika Kristensen told ArtsHub the exhibition was addressing an absence in the Australian art landscape over the past decade.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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