It's a wonderful world
by Vincent Ciccarello
Two
former UniSA students are among the twelve renowned and accomplished
Australian artists featured in Wonderful World, the inaugural
exhibition of the Samstag Museum.
On display will be a set of six colour photographs from the series The Place in Between by Narelle Autio, winner of the international Leica Oskar Barnack Award, American Picture of the Year Award and a Walkley Award.
Another multi-award winner, Simon Carroll – whose cinematography credits include Walking with Dinosaurs, Blue Planet and The Matrix – will share some of the astonishing time-lapse imagery he has captured over 19 years in the History of a Day project.
Samstag Museum director and exhibition curator, Erica Green said Wonderful World is an ambitious celebration of Australian contemporary art.
"The exhibition is a rich exploration of different ways that artists experience the world," she said.
"It brings us places of the imagination and glimpses of magical domains that only artists of mature creative power can effectively conjure."
Wonderful World also features the work of Jon Cattapan, Daniel Crooks, James Darling/Lesley Forwood, Robert MacPherson, Ningura Napurrula, Susan Norrie, Philip Wolfhagen and Anne Zahalka.
"All in all, Wonderful World is full of the mysterious alchemy that makes art such a special part of our lives. It is a perfect way for us to celebrate such an auspicious and historically significant event, as the opening of the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art," Green said.
The exhibition, which runs until December 7, employs all of the museum’s three substantial and elegant exhibition galleries over two levels. The exhibition hours are Tuesday to Friday 11am–5pm, Sunday 2–5pm and it is open to the public.