ANDY WARHOL & Photography: A Social Media

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BEWILDERNESS: RECENT ACQUISITIONS until 16 April 2023

Andy Warhol & Photography: A Social Media reveals an unseen side of celebrated Pop artist Andy Warhol through his career-long obsession with photography. Whether he was behind or in front of the camera, photography formed an essential part of his artistic practice while also capturing an insider’s view of his celebrity social world.

Exclusive to AGSA, this exhibition features photographs, experimental films and paintings by Warhol, including his famed Pop Art portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley from the 1960s. It also contains works by his photographic collaborators and creative contemporaries such as Christopher Makos, Gerard Malanga, Robert Mapplethorpe, David McCabe, and Duane Michals.

Decades before social media, Warhol’s photography was candid, collaborative and social, attuned to

FRIDA & DIEGO: Love & Revolution

Iconic works by two of the most influential and loved artists of the twentieth century – Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera – feature in this Australian exclusive exhibition, alongside works by key Mexican contemporaries.

Love, passion and politics lie at the heart of Frida & Diego. The couple, radical in their art and politics, were at the forefront of the artistic and cultural avant-garde in post-revolution Mexico from the 1920s to the 1950s. Today they are worshipped globally for their fusion of traditional Mexican folk art and international modernism.

the power of the image to shape his public persona and selfidentity. Many of his photographs from the 1970s and 1980s offer behind-thescenes glimpses into his own life and the lives of friends and celebrities such as Muhammad Ali, Bob Dylan, Debbie Harry, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Liza Minnelli, Lou Reed and Elizabeth Taylor. This exhibition asks the question, was Warhol the original influencer?

In the story of Australian art, landscape has held more territory than most. Landscape is geography, history and nationhood entwined. It is an open space for dreams and arcadian desires, a domain for validating colonial ambition and a potential site for reconciliation.

Showcasing recent acquisitions in painting, printmaking and sculpture, this exhibition considers landscape as a form of representation deeply embedded in questions of identity and belonging.

THE NATURE OF CULTURE until 16 April 2023

The Nature of Culture presents recent acquisitions from the Gallery’s collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. This selection of paintings, sculpture and woven works showcases the diversity of materiality and making across regions throughout Australia. It also reflects the creative dynamism that springs from cultural connections to Country.

Featuring more than 150 works, including paintings, works on paper, photographs and period clothing, this major exhibition from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection positions Kahlo and Rivera within the broader context of Mexican Modernism. It also includes works by Manuel and Lola Álvarez Bravo, Miguel Covarrubias, María Izquierdo, Carlos Mérida, David Alfaro Siqueiros and others.

Frida & Diego: Love & Revolution introduces Australian audiences to the intimate everyday stories of life and love as well as the grand narratives surrounding the political, social and cultural identity of Mexico and its peoples over the twentieth century.

Ace Gallery

A RIVER THAT FLOWS

BOTH WAYS until 18 March 2023

The 23rd Biennale of Sydney engages with ideas about bodies of water as dynamic living systems. Selected works from the exhibition titled rīvus, meaning “stream” in Latin, showcases artists, architects, designers, scientists and communities sharing in a dialogue with rivers, wetlands and other saltwater and freshwater ecosystems. The exhibition is a part of Adelaide Festival and tackles many timely environmental themes including pollution, climate change, and the effect of colonisation on First Peoples’ custodianship of ecosystems.

Image: Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi, Haukulasi, 1995–2021 (detail). Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous support from Creative New Zealand. Photo by Document Photography. ace.gallery | @ace.gallery.adelaide

Local Artist Profiles

CATHERINE TRUMAN

Catherine Truman is an established artist with a research-based practice focused on the parallels between the artistic process and the scientific method. She is co-founder and current partner of Gray Street Workshop, established in 1985.

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THE ADELAIDE PARK LANDS

ASSOCIATION ART PRIZEFINALIST EXHIBITION

24 March until 7 May 2023 adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au | @adelaidefescent

Selected finalist artworks will be on display at The Galleries, Adelaide Festival Centre. The finalists’ exhibition provides an opportunity for artists to display their art and captivate a new audience, growing artist profiles, and raising awareness for our irreplaceable Park Lands. All works are on sale. Proceeds support artists and contribute to the APLA’s efforts to preserve and improve our Park Lands.

The Nature of Culture complements Bewilderness: Recent acquisitions, an exhibition in the adjoining galleries, which draws on recent acquisitions across all collecting areas to examine our physical and psychological experiences of place.

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Truman was awarded an Arts South Australia Fellowship in 2016 and a significant survey exhibition was presented at the Art Gallery of South Australia. She was the subject of the 2016 South Australian Living Artist (SALA) monograph, Catherine Truman: touching distance, written by Melinda Rackham, published by Wakefield Press. In 2017 Truman was selected as Jamfactory Icon and her solo exhibition titled ‘No surface holds’ toured nationally 2018-2020.

Focused on plant/human relationships, Truman was artist in residence at the State Herbarium and Botanic Gardens of South Australia and the Ophthalmic Imaging Clinic, Flinders University undertaking The Visible Light Project: experiments in light and perception during 2019. In response, Truman’s solo exhibition, Shared Reckonings, was presented in the Museum of Economic Botany, Botanic Gardens of South Australia as an Adelaide Festival 2021 event.

Currently, she is undertaking The Arrangements: assembling nature at Carrick Hill which delves into the ways humans assemble the natural world.

Image credit: Grant Hancock catherinetruman.com.au | @catherinetruman

Carrick Hill

THE ARRANGEMENTS: ASSEMBLING NATURE

1 March until 28 May 2023

South Australian artist, and artist-in-residence at Carrick Hill, Catherine Truman draws on the unique, intimate nature of the site and its relationship with art. The exhibition investigates our impact on the environment and considers both a domestic and scientific interpretation of the natural world from historic and contemporary perspectives. Accompanying the exhibition is a program of public talks, interdisciplinary discussions and artist-led tours exploring the parallels between art and nature.

The exhibition is a part of Adelaide Festival and the year-long project is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding body for the Arts and Arts South Australia.

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Image Title: “Milk Jug” 2022, Vessel made from found dairy cow and kangaroo bones. The work references the historic land use of the Carrick Hill estate. It was previously a dairy farm. Photo by Grant Hancock. carrickhill.sa.gov.au | @carrick_hill

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VIVID & RICH COLOUR: The art of Louise Vadasz

Louise Vadasz is an artist based both in North Adelaide and Port Willunga. A nature based painter, her renderings of plants, flowers and lanscapes are rich and vivid with her use of bright colours; heavy impasto with oil painted on transparent linen. Louise shares about growing up in the 70s on the Fleurieu Peninsula, about art school and how being a mum of three small kids is a hard slog as an artist. She now has all the time in the world to devote to her painting and she’s happy, and not the least bit regretful of her choices.

CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT YOUR LIFE AND WHAT LED YOU TO ART?

I have always been creative, drawing most of my life. It was in my family, we were all creative, nobody ever asked me what I wanted to do, that was what I was gonna do. It was an arty family.

I went to tafe, which was probably where I learned a lot of drawing and then transferred to South Australia School of Art. Art school's quite challenging. mean, nine to five, five days a week. So you're fully immersed and it's great. Printmaking was my major but I also took etching, screen printing, wood cuts and more. I did mosaics for about 15 years. It's just so hard. And that's why stopped and started painting. Everything has their life cycle. I'm really glad I stopped doing it, I'm much happier painting.

HOW HAS GROWING UP IN THE FLEURIEU PENINSULA SHAPED YOU AS AN ARTIST?

I had a lot of freedom as a child growing up in the country. I am still particularly enamoured with Port Willunga and spend a lot of time there. I live in North Adelaide now, but we're in Port Willunga all summer and every weekend. We moved around a bit as was growing up. But where we ended up we had no neighbours and a couple of acres, a few animals and that sort of thing. Plenty of room. That's where I lived the longest. It was very isolating. So you had a lot of time to create stuff. I did a lot of drawing. When you grow up down there it means a lot to you. The hills and the beach. We went everywhere, all over the place. Swimming, picnicking and up to the slate quarry. It was a pretty good time. In those days you were left to your own devices. You were out on your bike or whatever, for the whole day. No one asked you, what are you doing? It was pure freedom.

In those days you were left to your own devices. You were out on your bike or whatever, for the whole day. No one asked you, what are you doing? It was pure freedom

HOW HAS YOUR ART PROGRESSED OVER THE YEARS?

Over 50 now have time to devote to painting. My three children are all grown up and living interstate. There’s no rushing in the car and picking up kids all over the place anymore.

I'm doing a lot more now than I was able to do when the kids were younger. You've got that head space to create and think about fun things that you could do. I'm doing a lot more now than I ever used to.

It's more of a full-time job now. It's like everything ever wanted when I went to art school. It just took a while to happen. You try to push through and make things still, but it's not the same when you've got children. It's a hard slog to get through. And nobody really gets it, as an artist your career is on hold and you don't get taken seriously at all as a woman. But now I can get up in the morning, go into my studio, still in my pyjamas, and start painting. I don't have to go and take anyone anywhere. It's pretty self-indulgent.

WHAT KEEPS YOU PAINTING AND CREATING ART?

My motivation is that I can hopefully do a painting that is better than the last one. It’s always nature based, plants, flowers, landscapes; what is around me. Also colour is a huge motivator – vivid, rich, thick colour gives me the greatest pleasure.

think my love of colour has always been there. Probably from the seventies, when everything was really bright and Marimekko and all of that was coming in. And from being a printmaker as well, mixing a lot of colour. I do heighten the colour and I like it really saturated with pigment. I love the colour because it's a joy. So it's expressive, joy comes out. I mainly use bright colours, so that's joy for me. When I'm painting I'm really happy. And that's how it comes out.

CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT ANY CURRENT OR UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS?

My work can currently be found at Art Images Norwood, The Fleurieu Arthouse McLaren Vale and Terrace Floors Parkside.

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