MoMA at NGV: 200 works of art and 130 years of art innovations, from New York to Melbourne
This winter, NGV Melbourne presents a major exhibition of modern and contemporary masterworks from the iconic MoMA New York, representing more than 130 years of radical artistic innovation.
Marking the largest instalment of the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition, MoMA at NGV features more than 200 artworks; from a glorious line up of great nineteenth and twentieth-century artists, including Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dalí, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, and also contemporary artist such as Jeff Koons and Cindy Sherman.
MoMA at NGV 2018
Exploring the late nineteenth century urban and industrial transformation through to the digital and global present, the radical innovation of art movements across for more than 130 years is segmented into eight chronological themes: Arcadia and Metropolis, Machinery of the Modern World, A New Unity, Inner and Outer Worlds, Arts as Action, Things as They Are, Immense Encyclopedia and Flight Patterns.
MoMA at NGV 2018
MoMA at NGV 2018
Here is a sneak peek of the artworks that are going to be housed in the gallery:
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- Self-portrait with cropped hair, 1940 by Frida Kahlo
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- The Portrait, 1935 by René Magritte
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- Portrait of Joseph Roulin, early 1889 by Vincent van Gogh
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- Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1937-42 by Piet Mondrian
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- New Shelton Wet/Dry Doubledecker, 1981 by Jeff Koon
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- Untitled, 1991 by Robert Gober
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- Bleeding Takari II, 2007 by El Anatsui
MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art 2018 will be held at the Ground Level of National Gallery of Victoria, from 9th June to 7th October 2018, 10am–5pm daily.
For tickets and more information, visit www.ngv.vic.gov.au.
