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Guggenheim exhibition audio guide

National Gallery of Victoria


    • Jun 18, 2010 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 2m AVG DURATION
    • 21 EPISODES


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    Between taxonomy and communion by Ann Hamilton

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2010 2:07


    Many of Ann Hamilton’s works involve amassing identical or similar objects. Between taxonomy and communion, 1990 – comprising 14,000 human and animal teeth – explores the interconnectedness between human and animal worlds.

    'la rivoluzione siamo Noi' [We are the Revolution] by Maurizio Cattelan

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2010 3:47


    Known to avoid interviews by sending a proxy, and escaping his own exhibition openings by stealth, Maurizio Cattelan and his work are complex characters to get to know.

    Untitled (Public Opinion) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2010 3:05


    This alluring pile of individually cellophane-wrapped candy is known as Untitled (Public Opinion), 1991. Felix Gonzalez-Torres first executed the work in the USA in 1991 as a protest against the first Gulf War.

    Easyfun-Ethereal series; Sandwiches by Jeff Koons

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2010 2:15


    These photo-realistic paintings by Jeff Koons overwhelm the viewer, ensuring, like the advertising world, that there is little time to recognise one’s desires before another product is thrust upon us.

    Ameland Pier X, Netherlands and Mummy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2010 3:51


    Painter Nigel Cooke and photographer Elger Esser play with our comprehension of their work when viewed from near and far, emphasising the act of reflection, rather than the recognition of location.

    Archive by Thomas Demand

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2010 3:10


    Thomas Demand toys with our faith in photographs and the historical events that we remember through them. In Archive, 1995, he reconstructs the personal inventory of Nazi propagandist and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl.

    The Cremaster Cycle by Matthew Barney

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2010 2:51


    Masculinity, penetration, escape, ego, transcendence and metamorphoses are just some of the concepts investigated in Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle film series.

    Works by Sarah Anne Johnson and Gregory Crewdson

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2010 3:18


    The relationship between truth and fiction is played out in this selection of works from Sarah Anne Johnson’s series Tree Planting, 2003-2005, while Gregory Crewdson’s work Untitled (family dinner), 2001-2002, centres on uncanny human behaviour.

    Untitled (to Jan and Ron Greenberg), 1972-1973

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2010 2:26


    Untitled (to Jan and Ron Greenberg) (1972–1973) illustrates Dan Flavin’s habit of naming his artworks as a tribute to friends, family or historical figures, the only personal element in what is otherwise an entirely industrial environment.

    Untitled by Donald Judd

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2010 2:11


    Donald Judd disliked the term ‘minimalism’ but most of his works are so described. Untitled, 1971, is an investigation of space, volume, the repeated unit, and the void.

    Floating Room by Bruce Nauman

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2010 2:54


    Bruce Nauman explores the capacity to trick human perception and elicit strong emotional and intellectual responses with his propositions as evidenced in this work Floating Room, 1972 (Light Outside, Dark Inside).

    Wall Drawing No. 264 by Sol LeWitt

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2010 1:37


    Sol LeWitt was a pioneer of conceptual, minimal and process art. His geometric Wall Drawing No. 264, 1975, was produced for this exhibition by an assistant who studied with LeWitt.

    Soft Pay-Telephone by Claes Oldenburg

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2010 1:44


    While many Pop artists maintained the manufactured identity of the objects they worked with, Claes Oldenburg casually undermined them as can be seen in his work Soft Pay-Telephone, 1963.

    Electric Chair by Andy Warhol

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2010 3:25


    The electric chair, then a common device for capital punishment in America, first featured in Warhol’s art in 1963 as part of his Death and Disaster series.

    Works by Giacometti, Appel and Pollock

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2010 2:32


    "Nose" (1947) by Alberto Giacometti, "Two" (1943-45) by Karel Appel and "Two Heads" (1953) by Jackson Pollock were shaped by numerous influences, among them Surrealism, Existentialism, Picasso and primitive art.

    Years of Fear by Roberto Matta

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2010 2:34


    “Everything in this painting was psychological” said Chilean artist Roberto Matta of his painting Years of Fear which he created following the outbreak of war in Europe. “It was a deep wish to measure what can be felt.”

    Paintings by Yves Klein and Lucio Fontana

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2010 3:42


    Yves Klein strives to depict space without limits in his painitng Untitled red monochrome (1959) while Lucio Fontana manipulates the canvas as an independent spatial entity in his painting Concetto spaziale, Attese (1965).

    Paintings by Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2010 2:50


    The evocation of the infinite is evident in both Jackson Pollock’s Untitled (Green Silver) (c.1949) and Mark Rothko’s Untitled (1947).

    Paintings by Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2010 2:34


    Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis worked with methods of staining their canvases, allowing paint and unprimed surface to become one, as can be seen in Frankenthaler’s Canal (1963) and Louis’s Saraband (1959).

    Paintings by Agnes Martin

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2010 1:54


    The maker’s mark and emotive gesture are typically dispensed with in Minimalist art and both White Flower (1960) and Untitled No.14 (1977) exemplify Agnes Martin’s mature expression of this style.

    Introduction by Geraldine Doogue

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2010 2:11


    Narrator Geraldine Doogue introduces the exhibition Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now and the diversity of artists and artworks it presents.

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