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Australian Centre for Contemporary Art opens an exhibition of works by Yhonnie Scarce
Yhonnie Scarce, Missile Park 2021, installation view, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Courtesy the artist and THIS IS NO FANTASY, Melbourne. Photograph: Andrew Curtis.
MELBOURNE
.- Developed by ACCA in partnership with the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, a major new exhibition of work by Yhonnie Scarce opened at ACCA in March, followed by a season at the IMA in July. Titled Missile Park, the exhibition includes a series of new commissions plus a comprehensive survey of the past fifteen years work from this leading Australian contemporary artist.
Art in the plague year: when a painting is like a new sofa
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In March last year a friend in Bangladesh forwarded a news item that said Australia’s borders would be closed until September. “Is it true!!!!” he exclaimed. I was sceptical and replied that neither the economy nor people’s limits of endurance would allow the closures to last that long. I thought we’d be flying again within a few months.
It’s in such moments you discover you’re really an optimist. One month into 2021 and the international borders are just as firmly closed as they were at the end of March, maybe more so. The most dire predictions don’t see us travelling internationally until next year. More than 30,000 Australians can’t even get a flight home.