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Title: Resonances
Author: PETITJEAN GEORGES
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/09/2020
Imprint: 5 CONTINENTS
Price: $80.00
Publishing status: Active
Following on from the success of the exhibition Before Time Began, Fondation Opale is taking on
a new challenge with a show that juxtaposes contemporary Aboriginal art with prominent
examples of contemporary art created in a Western and Asian tradition. This beautifully
illustrated catalogue includes more than eighty works by over 54 artists from two separate
collections, both of which are outstanding in their own right: the collection of Aboriginal art
belonging to Bérengère Primat and the contemporary art collection amassed by Garance Primat.
The works play off each other with powerful effect. Insightful pairings suggest an underlying
unity, a merging of mankind, heaven, earth, and the whole cosmos.
The Aboriginal artists represented include: Rover Thomas, Gulumbu Yunupingu, Clifford Possum
Tjapaltjarri, Judy Watson, Sally Gabori, Emily Kame Kngwarrey, Paddy Bedford, Nonggirrnga
Marawili, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, and John Mawurndjul. The artists working in the Western and
Oriental traditions include: Jean Dubuffet, Kiki Smith, Anselm Kiefer, Sol Lewitt, Yayoi Kusama,
Giuseppe Penone, and Anish Kapoor.
Published to accompany an exhibition at Fondation Opale, Lens – Crans Montana, 14 June 2020 –
4 April 4 2021.
AUTHOR:
Georges Petitjean is an art historian whose main research interest lies in tracing the path
Aboriginal art has taken from its origins right up to the world of international contemporary art.
He was the curator of the Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Utrecht from 2005 to 2017.
Since 2017 he has been the curator of the Collection Berengere Primat, one of the foremost
collections of Aboriginal art in the world.
115 colour images
ISBN: 9788874399345
Dimension: 270mm X 225mm