International Art Series
25 FEBRUARY TO 3 JUNE 2012
Free Admission
In conjunction with the launch of the Director's Project,
the Art Gallery
presents the first in its
International Art Series. Select galleries in the
Melrose Wing of European Art have been transformed to showcase four spectacular new acquisitions
(made over the past year) within contextual displays that promise to both confront and seduce
visitors.
The visual and
oral splendour of AES+F’s
Allegoria Sacra takes viewers on a surreal journey to
purgatory in a work that ultimately questions the values and contentment of contemporary societies.
Celebrated international artists Jake and Dinos Chapman and Thomas
Hirschhorn also explore themes of morality and corruption through two astonishing new works -
Das swings unt roundabouts fur der kinder? Ja? Nein! Schweinhund! (Swings
and
roundabouts for the children? Yes? No! Pigface!)
and
Twin-Subjecter -
which are located within displays exposing political
and humanitarian realities.
Juxtaposed
with Wim Delvoye’s tattooed pigskin
Untitled (Robert), the works resonate with questions about the boundaries between art and
life, and high and low art.
detail: Thomas Hirschhorn, Switzerland, born 1957
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