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After DarkNocturnes from the Heide Collection

Installation view, After Dark: Nocturnes from the Heide Collection 2018, photograph: Christian Capurro

This exhibition takes its inspiration from Albert Tucker’s night images, the earliest of which recorded the mysterious lighting effects of Melbourne’s wartime ‘brown-out’ in the 1940s and the clandestine activities that Tucker witnessed after dark on the city’s shadowy streets. It includes modern and contemporary works which reveal a varied range of conceptual and aesthetic possibilities within the nocturne theme: from Tucker’s surreal encounters on lamp-lit streets to Charles Blackman’s poetic reflections of moonlight on water, and Peter Booth’s sublime apocalyptic visions. Darkness, often pierced by light, is used in many of the works as a metaphor for diverse aspects of the human condition—including fear, loneliness, solitude, serenity and wonder.

The works in After Dark: Nocturnes from the Heide Collection range in style, mood and intent and are rich in interpretative potential. Some reveal hidden lives behind dark corners, others evoke nostalgia and longing, a few remind us of our nightmares, and others compel us to dream.

When
3 March – 26 August 2018
Location
Albert & Barbara Tucker Gallery
Curator/s
Kendrah Morgan

Peter Booth, Untitled c. 1978, pastel on paper, 55.3 x 74.8 cm, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, gift of Rae Rothfield 1998, © Peter Booth

Peter Booth, Untitled c. 1978, pastel on paper, 55.3 x 74.8 cm, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, gift of Rae Rothfield 1998, © Peter Booth

Erica McGilchrist, Midnight Argument 1954, lithograph, 35 x 25 cm, gift of Erica McGilchrist 1999, © Estate of Erica McGilchrist

Erica McGilchrist, Midnight Argument 1954, lithograph, 35 x 25 cm, gift of Erica McGilchrist 1999, © Estate of Erica McGilchrist

Installation view, After Dark: Nocturnes from the Heide Collection 2018, photograph: Christian Capurro

Installation view, After Dark: Nocturnes from the Heide Collection 2018, photograph: Christian Capurro

Lawrence Hope, Lovers 1952, oil on canvas, 66 x 59 cm, bequest of John and Sunday Reed, © Estate of Laurence Hope

Lawrence Hope, Lovers 1952, oil on canvas, 66 x 59 cm, bequest of John and Sunday Reed, © Estate of Laurence Hope

Installation view, After Dark: Nocturnes from the Heide Collection 2018, photograph: Christian Capurro

Installation view, After Dark: Nocturnes from the Heide Collection 2018, photograph: Christian Capurro

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