‘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
Untitled 2008-09
- HENSON, Bill - Creator
Wrapping history 2010
- MENLIBAYEVA, Almagul - Creator
One love 2007
- PIVI, Paola - Creator
Untitled 2007/2008
- SHERMAN, Cindy - Creator
Bruxelles 05/06 2006
- STREULI, Beat - Creator
Long March in Panjiayuan A 2004
- HONG Hao - Creator
With Winds 1990
- LEE Ufan - Creator
Untitled c.1972
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator
Untitled c.1968
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator
Untitled c.1968
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator
Untitled c.1972
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator
Untitled c.1968
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator
Untitled c.1958
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator
Untitled c.1968
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator
Untitled c.1972
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator
Untitled c.1972
- 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
Untitled c.1981
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator
Untitled c.1981
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator
Untitled c.1981
- 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
Woods III 1991-92
- TOYA, Shigeo - Creator
i am flesh again 2008
- BARTON, Del Kathryn - Creator
Putto David 2008
- CLARK, Tony - Creator
Holden 2007
- CAMPBELL, Nola - Creator
Toyota 2007
- DAVIES, Pulpurru - Creator
Toyota HiLux 2007
- GIBSON, Mary - Creator
Valiant 2007
- GILES, Jackie Kurltjunyintja - Creator
Nissan 2007
- WARD, Mrs Kumana - Creator
Boulder prototype #2 2008
- SMITH, Gemma - Creator
Adaptable (red/blue) 2008
- SMITH, Gemma - Creator
Chessboard painting #8 2008
- SMITH, Gemma - Creator
Green jacket 2008
- McHAFFIE, Rob - Creator
Nick Cave, yoga and NYC 2008
- McHAFFIE, Rob - Creator
Note to self 2008
- McHAFFIE, Rob - Creator
You and me 2008
- McHAFFIE, Rob - Creator
35° C 2008
- McHAFFIE, Rob - Creator
Maturing 2008
- McGREGOR, Laith - Creator
Dear Mister Mystical Man 2009
- McGREGOR, Laith - Creator
Travellers no. 3 2001
- HANSSEN PIGOTT, Gwyn - Creator
flight research #5 1999
- LAING, Rosemary - Creator
Kirriwirri 2011
- BILLYCAN, Jan (Djan NANUNDIE) - Creator
Meteora - Kalambaka 2006
- BROWN, Leonard - Creator
Untitled 2006
- BROWN, Leonard - Creator
Untitled 2006
- BROWN, Leonard - Creator
Untitled 2006
- BROWN, Leonard - Creator
Untitled 2011
- BRUMBY, Sandy - Creator
Espera (Waiting) 2011
- De CARO, Marina - Creator
Cupola A, B, C 1989-90
- DIBBETS, Jan - Creator
La buona terra 1964
- GIACOMELLI, Mario - Creator
La buona terra 1964
- GIACOMELLI, Mario - Creator
Gymnasium 2010
- GILL, Tarryn - Artist
- MATA DUPONT, Pilar - Artist
Birmingham race riot 1964
- WARHOL, Andy - Creator