Name: Petrina Hicks | Bleached Gothic
Start: 2019-9-27T10-10-00-00
End: 2020-3-29T17-17-00-00
Location: Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

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20sep(sep 20)10:00 am13apr(apr 13)5:00 pmKaws | Companionship in the Age of LonelinessNational Gallery of Victoria | International

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Kaws: Companionship in the Age of Loneliness at NGV International.

Exhibition opens 20 Sep 2019 and runs until 13 Apr 2020.

Open 10am–5pm daily.

Tickets and more information HERE –

In an Australian first, this exhibition is a comprehensive survey of 25 years of the oeuvre of the New York artist known as Kaws, full of humour, hope and humanity, celebrating his ability to connect with broad audiences.

The full range of Kaws’ artistic output will be on display, featuring more than 100 works including iconic paintings reappropriating pop-culture figures to his more recent large-scale abstract works, and an impressive collection of his celebrated sculptural figures.

Kaws engages with universal feelings of isolation and loneliness through his works, in reaction to the turbulent world we live in today. His larger-than-life sculptures are playful, toy-like figures. However, at a closer look, they reveal a fragility and darkness in the vulnerable poses of the characters.

Brian Donnelly (born 1974), aka KAWS, is one of the most prominent and prolific artists of his generation. His body of work straddles the worlds of art and design to include paintings, murals, large-scale sculptures, street and public art, and graphic and product design. His work is infused with humour, humanity and affection for our times. Admired for his larger-than-life sculptures and colour-filled paintings, KAWS’s cast of hybrid cartoon and human characters are drawn from pop-culture animations and form a distinctive artistic vocabulary.

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September 20 (Friday) 10:00 am - April 13 (Monday) 5:00 pm

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NGV International

180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne

27sep(sep 27)10:00 am29mar(mar 29)5:00 pmPetrina Hicks | Bleached GothicIan Potter Centre: NGV Australia

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Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic is the first major survey exhibition of photographer Petrina Hicks. Over her fifteen-year career, Hicks has gained a strong reputation for her large-scale, hyperreal photographs that subvert and disrupt the photographic language of advertising and portraiture. Hicks photographs children, animals and young women against simple backgrounds, returning to the same models and motifs frequently to define and hone her distinctive style.

Hicks’s photographs are notable for their duality; pristine and benign at first glance, the works are undercut with a sense of the uncanny. The tension between seduction and danger, familiarity and strangeness, intimacy and distance are present in many of Hicks’s works, which are rich with mythological and historical symbolism.

Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic includes more than fifty photographs and video works spanning the period 2003 to 2019. Seen together for the first time, Hicks’s shimmering, enigmatic and surreal compositions convey the inherent ambiguity and complexity of the female experience. At a time when issues of gender and representation are more culturally relevant than ever before, Hicks’s photographs interrogate the cultural and visual representation of women and children in contemporary society and throughout history.

The NGV is publishing a monograph to coincide with the exhibition, detailing the artist’s work to date.

Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic at Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

Exhibition opens 27 Sep 2019 and runs until 29 Mar 2020.

Open 10am-5pm daily. Entry is Free

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September 27 (Friday) 10:00 am - March 29 (Sunday) 5:00 pm

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Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

Federation Square, Cnr Russell St and Flinders St

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