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Apocalyptic Horse

Albert Tucker, Apocalyptic Horse 1956, oil on hardboard, 62 x 81 cm, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Purchased 1982 © Albert & Barbara Tucker Foundation

Apocalyptic Horse is an exhibition exploring psychology, the body and the landscape—and the theatre that ties them together—through the artistic practice of Albert Tucker. The project takes its title from a 1956 painting by Tucker in which surrealistic tropes gallop through a nightmarish world. Using this image as a starting point, the exhibition navigates lines of convergence and displacement within the Australian landscape and psyche. Tucker’s work is brought into dialogue with pieces by other artists including Patricia Piccinini, Hayley Millar-Baker and James Gleeson, offering a prism through which histories can be reexamined, and ideas of apocalypse—both personal and collective—can be explored.

When
5 March – 15 September 2019
Location
Albert & Barbara Tucker Gallery
Curator/s
Jake Treacy

Albert Tucker, Apocalyptic Horse 1956, oil on hardboard, 62 x 81 cm, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Purchased 1982 © Albert & Barbara Tucker Foundation

Albert Tucker, Apocalyptic Horse 1956, oil on hardboard, 62 x 81 cm, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Purchased 1982 © Albert & Barbara Tucker Foundation

Sidney Nolan, Untitled (Calf Carcass in Tree) 1952, Archival inkjet pint, 23 x 23 cm, Purchased with funds from the Truby and Florence Williams Charitable Trust, ANZ Trustees 2011 © Sidney Nolan Trust

Sidney Nolan, Untitled (Calf Carcass in Tree) 1952, Archival inkjet pint, 23 x 23 cm, Purchased with funds from the Truby and Florence Williams Charitable Trust, ANZ Trustees 2011 © Sidney Nolan Trust

Albert Tucker, Cratered Landscape 1959, synthetic polymer paint on composition board, 49.5 x 80 cm, On long-term loan from the Albert & Barbara Tucker Foundation, Courtesy of Sotheby’s Australia, © Albert & Barbara Tucker Foundation.

Albert Tucker, Cratered Landscape 1959, synthetic polymer paint on composition board, 49.5 x 80 cm, On long-term loan from the Albert & Barbara Tucker Foundation, Courtesy of Sotheby’s Australia, © Albert & Barbara Tucker Foundation.

James Gleeson, Black Truce, oil on canvas, Gift of James Kenney 2005 © Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation

James Gleeson, Black Truce, oil on canvas, Gift of James Kenney 2005 © Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation

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