Exhibition Le Point de Papunya virtual
IDAIA
“Beyond the Papunya Dot”, 11-28 October 2012, Musée du Montparnasse in Paris
“Beyond the Papunya Dot” invites ten Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian artists to present their vision of the Aboriginal art world through the exhibition of new works.
In Australia, the Papunya Story is well-known and art lovers know that the dot painting movement has developed and spread out from this small community of Central Australia. They also acknowledge that since the end of the 70's, contemporary Aboriginal artists from all around the country have experimented many other styles, generating a very diverse and prolific art industry.
The complexity of the Aboriginal art world is unlike relatively unknown in France, due to a lack of exhibitions opportunities and by the discourse of certain agents who prefer to maintain the idea of the 'untouched and 'Dreamtime'-based indigenous society'.
The exhibition “Beyond the Papunya Dot” aims to show other aspects of the Australian art world than the well-known dot paintings and to give a voice to ten very different artists. These artists have been invited by the curator to engage with a series of questions relating to the history of the Aboriginal art history and to the processes of art creation and art history writing.
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