Is it possible to surmise the mystery of love or to reveal the emotions it engenders?
From Polly Borland’s playfully dressed-up bodies, replete with sexual suggestion, to Tim Silver’s disintegrating sculpture of a stargazing young man, this exhibition considers the variegated terrain of love’s language – joy, elation, longing, loss, melancholia and memory.
For the first time since they were opened in 1988, the now-named Franco and Amina Belgiorno-Nettis and Family Contemporary Galleries at the Art Gallery of NSW will be architecturally reconsidered, in collaboration with Jan van Schaik of Minifie van Schaik Architects. This more intimate viewing experience will take visitors on a spatial and emotional journey through love’s language, from beginning to end.
Art Gallery of New South Wales
31 January to 21 April, 2013
Sydney
Tim Silver, Untitled (Rory) #3, 2009, pigment on print on etching rag 310gsm, 135.5 x 90cm.
Photography: Jamie North
Courtesy the artist and BREENSPACE, Sydney
