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Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

Julie Mehretu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory

Don’t miss the major survey of acclaimed New York-based artist Julie Mehretu at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Julie Mehretu’s dynamic and multi-layered works invite you to see painting in a whole new way. From early works on paper to her latest paintings, Mehretu’s monumental works pulse with history, movement, and energy.

Presented as part of the Sydney International Art Series, this is the first exhibition dedicated to Mehretu in the Southern Hemisphere.

29 November—27 April

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

140 George Street The Rocks NSW 2000

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Preview

Bhenji Ra dreams in dance

In Biraddali Dancing on the Horizon, now showing at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Australian-Filipina artist Bhenji Ra explores pangalay—a dance form indigenous to the Tausug and Bajau peoples from the Sulu Archipelago and Sabah in the Philippines.

Josephine Mead

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Taking flight with Sorawit Songsataya

Shaped by the movement between histories and cultures, the work of Thai-born, Aotearoa-raised artist Sorawit Songsataya draws on mystery and plurality as a means of knowing the world. The artist is now showing at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Monash University Museum of Art.

Amelia Winata

Studio

Consuelo Cavaniglio’s tricks of the light

Consuelo Cavaniglia’s sunny studio in an industrial area of Sydney’s inner west reflects the artist’s fascination with light. Her recent glass works, now showing at Chau Chak Wing Museum, play with apertures, shadows, reflections and transparencies.

Jane O'Sullivan

Interview

Pat Brassington is mining the unconscious

Since the 1980s Pat Brassington’s images have entranced the psyche of contemporary Australian art. With a new solo exhibition at Bett Gallery, Brassington gives a rare interview talking about studying art in her thirties, psychoanalysis, and discovering feminism through a wives’ book club.

Tiarney Miekus

Feature

A land outside time: on Dane Mitchell’s The Imponderables

For Dane Mitchell, Slvalbard—a mysterious archipelago north of the Arctic circle—gives the tensions that shape our ecological moment a new and intriguing form.

Louise Martin-Chew

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The revitalization of Bundjalung weaving

A touring exhibition based on a publication of the same title, Bulaan Buruugaa Ngali celebrates Bundjalung artists revitalising the practice of basket weaving, as well as the Bundjalung language—two forms of knowledge that are deeply connected. The exhibition is now showing at Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre.

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Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

Julie Mehretu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory

29 November—27 April

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

More Exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

MCA Collection: Artists in Focus

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

Suggested Reading

Bhenji Ra dreams in dance

Josephine Mead

Taking flight with Sorawit Songsataya

Amelia Winata

Consuelo Cavaniglio’s tricks of the light

Jane O'Sullivan

Pat Brassington is mining the unconscious

Tiarney Miekus

A land outside time: on Dane Mitchell’s The Imponderables

Louise Martin-Chew

The revitalization of Bundjalung weaving

Josephine Mead

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