Multiplicity explores the development of prints and multiples from the 1960s to the current day, tracking the rise of an art form that lies at the core of contemporary art practice. Drawing on the permanent collections of the MCA and University of Wollongong, Multiplicity offers visitors the chance to see the evolution of this influential medium across four decades, from its emergence out of the pop art and conceptual art movements of the 1950s and 1960s.
“Until the 1960s prints and multiples had primarily been viewed as an adjunct activity to the more ‘important’ mediums such as painting and sculpture. However following the development of conceptual art in the 1960s - and the experimentation with process and institutional critique that came with it – there was a major shift in this hierarchy,” explains Multiplicity curator Glenn Barkley from the University of Wollongong Art Collection.
Image above: Colin Lanceley, Some Are More Equal Than Others, 1969. Screenprint, 76.5 x 54.7 cm
Image below: Katharina Fritsch, Madonna (detail) 1982. Synthetic polymer paint on plaster, 30 x 7 x 6.5 cm
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