3 July 2017

Contemporary conversations

Join us for a glass of wine followed by a conversation with curator Jaklyn Babington, featuring work by Pipilotti Rist: Worry will vanish and Rodel Tapaya: New art from the Philippines.

In the development of Worry will vanish revelation, Rist has adopted the lessons of ‘autogenic training’ – a set of physical exercises in combination with repeated visualisations – developed in the 1930s by psychiatrist Johannes Heinrich Schultz. With the invitation to lie down, Rist physically re-positions her viewer into a posture of relaxation, subsequently lulling them into a psychologically meditative state.

Continue your exploration of the NGA with insights from Rodel Tapaya’s body of work. Speaking about the symbolism in his large triptych The promise land: the moon, the sun, the stars, a newly commissioned work for the NGA, Rodel Tapaya says, ‘In some way, I realise that old stories are not just metaphors. I can find connections with contemporary time. It’s like the myths are poetic narrations of the present. Sometimes, the present events are so hard to grasp that they could be mistaken as a myth, or folktale, just to enable people to cope’.

Venue: meet at information desk
Price : $20 NGA members, $25 guests

Bookings essential: http://bit.ly/2oOpcLe

Image: Rodel Tapaya The promise land: the moon, the sun, the stars 2016 acrylic on canvas. Proposed acquisition 2017. Courtesy of the artist and A3.

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