Yes yes yes yes

Discover the playful spirit, visual energy and political thrust of graphic art from the 1960s and 1970s in this touring exhibition from the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

These decades were an exciting period in the visual arts, when advances in printmaking techniques and the ever-increasing power of mass media provided artists with diverse and innovative ways to communicate their ideas to a wider audience. Inspired by the title of a work by Joe Tilson in the exhibition, the phrase ‘yes yes yes yes’ evokes the democratic spirit and ethos of technical innovation shared by many of these artists and their printers, who sought to distribute ‘fine art’ imagery more broadly through methods of mechanical reproduction. The international line-up of artists includes Eduardo Paolozzi, Sigmar Polke, Joe Tilson, and Gerhard Richter.

For a contemporary version of democratic and accessible artmaking, Moving Histories // Future Projections brings together some of Australia’s leading female artists working across screen-based media, including Mikala Dwyer and Justene Williams, Amala Groom, Deborah Kelly, Kate Blackmore and Jacinta Tobin, Joan Ross, Soda_Jerk, Angelica Mesiti and Caroline Garcia. These artists approach their subject matter in a variety of ways – turning the camera on themselves, re-staging historical events, or reimagining alternative futures through speculative accounts of the past. Museums & Galleries of NSW is touring this dLux MediaArts’ exhibition curated by Kelly Doley and Diana Baker Smith of Barbara Cleveland.

 

Pictured above: K.H. Hödicke, Magic window cleaner II, from the portfolio Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus, 1967. Colour screenprint on Plexiglas, 82.9 x 58.6 cm, © Estate of Karl-Horst Hödicke/Bild-Kunst. Copyright Agency

Pictured below: Eduardo Paolozzi, Sack-o-sauce, from the portfolio Bunk, 1972. colour photo screenprint, colour photo lithograph, collage, 36.2 x 26.8 cm. 

 

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Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie, 1A First Street, Booragul 2284  View in Google Maps