‘Lightness and Gravity’
Contemporary Works from the Collection
Mar 2012 -
Oct 2012

‘Lightness & Gravity: Contemporary Works from the Collection’ features an international selection of artists and a number of recent major acquisitions that point to a longstanding philosophical discussion of the fundamental character of life as weighty, meaningful and constrained by history, or as playful and arbitrary — and thereby free. Many artists have navigated between these poles, as in Mario Giacomelli’s photographs of priests cavorting in the snow, or in Song Dong’s record of the repeated gesture of stamping water in a river — effort that leaves no trace. Other artists in the exhibition include Adel Abdessemed, Marina de Caro, Julian Hooper, Lee Ufan, Nalini Malani, Almagul Menlibayeva, Tracey Moffatt, Nasreen Mohamedi, Pushpamala, Michael Riley, Guy Tillim and Kara Walker.
‘Lightness & Gravity’ was on display at GOMA from 3 March to 21 October 2012.
Feature image: Shigeo Toya’s Woods III (foreground) and Dong Song’s Stamping the water 1996, installed for ‘Lightness & Gravity’, GOMA, 2012 / © The artists / Photograph: QAGOMA
Collection artworks featured in ‘Lightness and Gravity’

Head on 2007-08
- ABDESSEMED, Adel - Creator

Swanrider 2004
- FOROUHAR, Parastou - Creator

Wrapping history 2010
- MENLIBAYEVA, Almagul - Creator

Bruxelles 05/06 2006
- STREULI, Beat - Creator

Untitled c.1968
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1968
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1972
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1981
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1981
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1981
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

i am flesh again 2008
- BARTON, Del Kathryn - Creator

Toyota 2007
- DAVIES, Pulpurru - Creator

Nissan 2007
- WARD, Mrs Kumana - Creator

Chessboard painting #8 2008
- SMITH, Gemma - Creator

Note to self 2008
- McHAFFIE, Rob - Creator

Maturing 2008
- McGREGOR, Laith - Creator

Travellers no. 3 2001
- HANSSEN PIGOTT, Gwyn - Creator

Meteora - Kalambaka 2006
- BROWN, Leonard - Creator

Untitled 2006
- BROWN, Leonard - Creator

Espera (Waiting) 2011
- De CARO, Marina - Creator

La buona terra 1964
- GIACOMELLI, Mario - Creator

Birmingham race riot 1964
- WARHOL, Andy - Creator

Untitled 2008-09
- HENSON, Bill - Creator

One love 2007
- PIVI, Paola - Creator

Long March in Panjiayuan A 2004
- HONG Hao - Creator

Untitled c.1968
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1958
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1972
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1981
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1981
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1981
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Stamping the water 1996
- SONG Dong - Creator

Holden 2007
- CAMPBELL, Nola - Creator

Toyota HiLux 2007
- GIBSON, Mary - Creator

Boulder prototype #2 2008
- SMITH, Gemma - Creator

Green jacket 2008
- McHAFFIE, Rob - Creator

You and me 2008
- McHAFFIE, Rob - Creator

Dear Mister Mystical Man 2009
- McGREGOR, Laith - Creator

Untitled 2006
- BROWN, Leonard - Creator

Untitled 2011
- BRUMBY, Sandy - Creator

Cupola A, B, C 1989-90
- DIBBETS, Jan - Creator

La buona terra 1964
- GIACOMELLI, Mario - Creator

Untitled 2007/2008
- SHERMAN, Cindy - Creator

With Winds 1990
- LEE Ufan - Creator

Untitled c.1972
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1972
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1968
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1972
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1981
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1981
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1981
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Woods III 1991-92
- TOYA, Shigeo - Creator

Putto David 2008
- CLARK, Tony - Creator

Valiant 2007
- GILES, Jackie Kurltjunyintja - Creator

Adaptable (red/blue) 2008
- SMITH, Gemma - Creator

Nick Cave, yoga and NYC 2008
- McHAFFIE, Rob - Creator

35° C 2008
- McHAFFIE, Rob - Creator

flight research #5 1999
- LAING, Rosemary - Creator

Kirriwirri 2011
- BILLYCAN, Jan (Djan NANUNDIE) - Creator

Untitled 2006
- BROWN, Leonard - Creator

Gymnasium 2010
- GILL, Tarryn - Artist
- MATA DUPONT, Pilar - Artist