2018
A01=Georges Petitjean
A01=Lisa Slade
AnanguCollective
AnanguPitjantjatjaraYankunytjatjara
APY
art
Australia
Author_Georges Petitjean
Author_Lisa Slade
Category=AGA
Category=AGC
collection
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indigenous
installation
monograph
paintings
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- ISBN 9788874399611
- Dimensions: 200 x 250mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jul 2021
- Publisher: Five Continents Editions
- Publication City/Country: IT
- Product Form: Hardback
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Why are these specific artworks the subject of this first monograph? Produced in 2018, the sumptuous paintings, aa is the Kulata Tjuta Kupi Kupi installation, are collaborative artworks. They are reminiscent of the collaborative production process of art in Aboriginal Australia. These major works, in which a variety of Dreaming stories that define the region converge, form cornerstones of the collection that lies at the heart of the Fondation Opale. The Fondation Opale, and its founder and driving force Berengere Primat, has a particularly strong and active relationship with the art centres and the artists of that region of Australia. Several journeys were made to the APY lands in Central Australia. Both paintings, to which respectively several senior women and men collaborated, were commissioned by Berengere Primat and the painting process abundantly documented. These magisterial paintings are testimony to the continuum of culture and intimate knowledge of the land through art.
Kupi Kupi, an iteration of the ongoing Kulata Tjuta (many spears in the Pitjantjatjara language) initiated in 2010, is a contemporary and monumental art installation consisting of 1500 spears. It is a metaphor for contemporary Anangu society and the unpredictable direction in which it is moving.
All these artworks are testimony to the renewal and relevancy of Aboriginal art in contemporary times.
Text in English and French.
Georges Petitjean is an art historian and obtained his Ph.D. with research on the art of the Western Australian Desert. His main field of research is the transformation of primordial Aboriginal art into contemporary art. Lisa Slade is assistant director for art programs at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
