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The National Gallery of Victoria is turning to French art legends Monet, Degas and Renoir for a major winter exhibition it hopes will bring back big crowds, after a run of more contemporary, modern art exhibitions.
The NGV has been buffeted by the pandemic. It was closed for most of last year, reopening for just a few days before Victoria was hit with the second wave of the virus, forcing it shut for most of the rest of last year.
It was set to announce the new blockbuster exhibition, which will open in June, last Monday when the state was again hit with a five-day, snap lockdown. The winter masterpieces series has attracted over 7 million visitors to gallery with previous blockbusters including Van Gogh, Salvador Dali and MoMA at NGV.
Melbourne s galleries back in full swing
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Melbourne s galleries back in full swing
By Tiarney Miekus
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Slime and Ashes.
Through glitz, strangeness and adorableness,
Slime and Ashes shows how the experience of both cuteness and the uncanny those moments which are paradoxically both compelling and repelling is one of our most dominant aesthetic experiences. The show encompasses painting, drawing, video and sculpture to consider how cuteness, and how anthropomorphising non-human characters, can conjure feelings of irresolvable ambivalence. In this way the cartoon-influenced drawings of Keely (Kaymay) Hallas, the soft sculpture aliens of Terry Williams, and the life-size waxed wood sculpture of a mother and baby pig by Abdul-Rahman Abdullah show how cute isn’t trivial but something more complex that borders the uncanny. In a very humourous exhibition take Bronwyn Hack’s