Friends Events & Membership
August 2012 – November 2012
Film Festival Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters Film Festival Marcel Duchamp (American, born France. 1887-1968) When: Monday 27 August, 6 – 8pm Where: Theatrette, AGWA (via James St Mall entrance) Cost: Member $40/Guest $50 (inc. refreshments. Doors open at 6pm. Lecture 6.30pm, followed by film – duration approx. 30 mins) Booking: F19 Duchamp’s proposition that art could be about ideas instead of objects was a revolutionary notion that still resonates with artists today. Associated with Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism, his main innovation was ‘ready-made art’. In 1913, Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2, caused a furore at New York City’s famous Armory Show. Robert Cook, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Photography and Design, will deliver the APPRECIATING talk on Duchamp and his works, as an aperitif to the screening of the film, Marcel Duchamp: A Definitive Biography.
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ADFAS Series 2012
A VICTORIAN SPLENDOUR; The Golden Age of British Glass (with Dr Charles Hajdamach) When: Monday 3 September, 6 – 8pm Where: Central Institute of Technology – Lecture Theatre, Building 1, Francis St, Northbridge (opposite the entry to State Library Car Park) Cost: Member $40/Guest $50 (inc. refreshments. Doors open 6pm. Lecture 6:45pm) Booking: F20 Professed to be one of the greatest periods in British glassmaking, the 19th century saw glassmakers create a kaleidoscope of shapes, colours and decorative techniques now lauded for the genius of their technical virtuosity and aesthetic sensibility. Dr Hajdamach will present evocative portraits of the glassmakers and designers, as well as the objects themselves. Dr Hajdamach is a leading authority on glass, previously a Director of Dudley Museums and Art Galleries, Broadfield House Glass Museum and the author of British Glass 1800-1814 and British 20th Century Glass.
Floor Talk Jeff Wall Photographs with Gary Dufour ❤ When: Where: Cost:
Sunday 9 September, 2 – 4.30pm Meet in The Manhattan Lounge, AGWA Member $30/Guest $30 (inc. light refreshments. Doors open at 2pm) Booking: F21
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Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976), Untitled, 1939. painted sheet aluminum and steel wire, 14 5/8 x 9 x 10 7/8” (37.1 x 22.8 x 27.5 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Kay Sage Tanguy Bequest. © 2012 Calder Foundation, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
The Gallery’s Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Gary Dufour, is a specialist on the works of Jeff Wall, whom he has known for 30 years. Gary will introduce us to his favourite works in the exhibition and we’ll discover why Jeff Wall is widely acknowledged as one of the most inventive and influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. This outstanding show, a first of its kind in Australia, will close the next day. Do not miss this opportunity to learn about how Jeff Wall conceives the scenes, what are the subtle messages buried within these large scale photographic works and bring your friends (at Members prices) to the Gallery!
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