A selection of pieces from the NGV's collection unified by an interest in light, colour and movement, and broadly spanning from Bridget Riley and Op Art through to today, drawing on both international and Australian artists. Given its theme, it was unsurprising that I enjoyed it!
I'd seen a few of these before, but that didn't detract in the slightest, say, from the experience of Olafur Eliasson's beautiful, transfixing, planetary "Limbo lamp" (2005) room (* - amongst other previous visits) or Tomaslav Nikolic's green-framed pink study "3: We all have a dream of a place we belong" (2003) (*).
Also, Sandra Selig's "Heart of the air you can hear" (2011) - a piece which somewhat reverses expectation (or does it? A contemporary art version of the Sicilian's dilemma in The Princess Bride maybe) in appearing from a distance as if it is line drawn on to the wall (a la Sol LeWitt) and only on inspection from close up (or the right angle) reveals itself as a crafty and engagingly dynamic thread installation.
I'd seen a few of these before, but that didn't detract in the slightest, say, from the experience of Olafur Eliasson's beautiful, transfixing, planetary "Limbo lamp" (2005) room (* - amongst other previous visits) or Tomaslav Nikolic's green-framed pink study "3: We all have a dream of a place we belong" (2003) (*).
Also, Sandra Selig's "Heart of the air you can hear" (2011) - a piece which somewhat reverses expectation (or does it? A contemporary art version of the Sicilian's dilemma in The Princess Bride maybe) in appearing from a distance as if it is line drawn on to the wall (a la Sol LeWitt) and only on inspection from close up (or the right angle) reveals itself as a crafty and engagingly dynamic thread installation.
