NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS EXHIBITION OF AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART, ON DISPLAY AT HEADQUARTERS FROM 2 AUGUST TO 2 SEPTEMBER, TO BE LAUNCHED ON 10 AUGUST
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NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS EXHIBITION OF AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART, ON DISPLAY AT HEADQUARTERS FROM 2 AUGUST TO 2 SEPTEMBER, TO BE LAUNCHED ON 10 AUGUST
19990802'Indigenous Art of the Dreamtime' Is Co-Sponsored by DPI/Australian Mission
A major exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art, "Indigenous Art of the Dreamtime", will be on display in the General Assembly Public Lobby, from 2 August to 2 September. The exhibition -- the first of its kind at the United Nations -- is co-sponsored by the Department of Public Information (DPI) and supported by the Australian Mission to the United Nations.
A companion exhibition, featuring a further 30 works of indigenous art, will be on display at the Australian Mission to the United Nations and Australian Consulate-General premises, from 4 August to 25 August.
The exhibitions bring together some of the leading exponents of Central Australian Desert art, including acknowledged masters of the genre, such as Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Johnny Warangkula Tjuppurula and Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. These artists and others included in the exhibitions have enjoyed success internationally, inviting comparisons with artists as diverse as Claude Monet and Jackson Pollock. Each work merges contemporary media (acrylic paints, canvas) with traditional treatment of the iconography of the "dreaming".
Both exhibitions will be supported by a range of activities, including a series of lectures conducted by Australian Aboriginal art specialists, and demonstrations of Desert art painting by a number of the featured artists who have accompanied the exhibition to New York.
"Indigenous Art of the Dreamtime" will be launched officially at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, 10 August, in the General Assembly Public Lobby as part of a United Nations two-day programme commemorating the International Day of the World's Indigenous People, observed annually on 9 August. The launch is open to the public, media and representatives of permanent missions.
For further information, contact Jennifer Gabbay, Public Liaison, Australian Mission, at tel. (212) 351-6638, or Ellen McGuffie, Department of Public Information, tel. (212) 963-0499.
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