"Parallel Visions: Affinities within the Australian Collection"
2002-02-22 until 2003-02-02
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, , AU Australia

This exhibition features 200 works by 22 of Australia's foremost artists and includes some of their most acclaimed masterpieces. Each artist is paired or grouped with a fellow spirit in a deliberate exercise of comparisons, revealing to varying degrees shared artistic intentions and in many cases a personal relationship.

Some of the most revered landscapes in the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection are included: from Hans Heysen's beautiful watercolour Summer, 1909 to Jeffrey Smart's Truck and trailer approaching a city, 1973; figurative compositions from the spectacular Summer time c. 1907 by Rupert Bunny to sensuous watercolours and drawings by Norman Lindsay and Donald Friend; probing poetic abstractions by Ralph Balson and Roger Kemp; and amongst the finest still-life paintings by Australia's consummate artist of the genre, Margaret Olley.

Through the comparison between one artist and another, the exhibition Parallel Visions reveals one of the most fascinating components in the adventure of appreciating collections and provides a fresh reading of material under our custodianship, Barry Pearce, Senior Curator of Australian Art and Curator of this exhibition.

IMAGE:
Roland Wakelin
Synchromy in Orange Major 1919
Bequest of Mervyn Horton 1983.
copyright J. Murray

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