10 May 2012

NGV : Vox Pop

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No, not VOX POP the 1983 exhibition curated by Robert Lindsay at the National Gallery of Victoria with artworks by Davida Allen, Howard Arkley, Peter Booth, Paul Boston, Gunter Christman, Juan Davila, Fraiser Fair, Dale Frank, Maria Kozic, David Larwill, Linda Marrinon, Mandy Martin, Jan Murray, Lutz Presser, Victor Rubin, Gareth Sansom, Imants Tillers, Peter Taylor, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson.

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1983 VOX POP catalog | Howard Arkley, Tattooed head (detail)

NGV : Vox Pop is a free pencil movement collection of reactions to :
The NGV prohibits sketching, noting taking/making and photography at the exhibition Fred Williams : Infinite Horizons. What do you reckon?

Over coming weeks we'll publish some of these.

Today, a postcard from a young French lad. Via his auto-portrait, he suggests, we may gauge the distress he felt when first he heard of the latest NGV veto. On the reverse, he writes of his profound disappointment. His exact words are "d'une profonde déception".

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

someone looks at something ...


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