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The Field (exhibition)
Influential Australian exhibition of abstract art held in 1968 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Field was the inaugural exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria’s new premises on St Kilda Road, Melbourne.[1] Launched by the director of London’s Tate gallery, Norman Reid,[2] before an audience of 1,000 invitees, it was held between held 21 August and 28 September 1968. Hailed then,[3][4] and regarded since as a landmark exhibition in Australian art history,[5] it presented the first comprehensive display of colour field painting and abstract sculpture in the country in a radical presentation,[6] between silver foil–covered walls and under geometric light fittings, of 74 works by 40 artists. All practised hard-edge, geometric, colour and flat abstraction, often in novel media including coloured or transparent plastic, fluorescent acrylic paints,[7] steel and chrome. The art was appropriate to a launch of the new venue itself, designed by architect Roy Grounds, and emphatically rectilinear; cubes nested in a basalt rectangular box amongst the other buildings of the new Arts Centre, each based on a geometric solid. Echoing emerging international stylistic tendencies of the time, The Field sparked immediate controversy and launched the careers of a new generation of Australian artists.
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