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Guggenheim exhibition audio guide

National Gallery of Victoria

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Guggenheim exhibition audio guide

Untitled (Public Opinion) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres

This alluring pile of individually cellophane-wrapped candy is known as Untitled (Public Opinion), 1991. Felix Gonzalez-Torres first executed the work in the USA in 1991 as a protest against the first Gulf War.

15 years ago

3 minutes

Guggenheim exhibition audio guide

Between taxonomy and communion by Ann Hamilton

Many of Ann Hamilton’s works involve amassing identical or similar objects. Between taxonomy and communion, 1990 – comprising 14,000 human and animal teeth – explores the interconnectedness between human and animal worlds.

15 years ago

2 minutes

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'la rivoluzione siamo Noi' [We are the Revolution] by Maurizio Cattelan

Known to avoid interviews by sending a proxy, and escaping his own exhibition openings by stealth, Maurizio Cattelan and his work are complex characters to get to know.

15 years ago

3 minutes

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Ameland Pier X, Netherlands and Mummy

Painter Nigel Cooke and photographer Elger Esser play with our comprehension of their work when viewed from near and far, emphasising the act of reflection, rather than the recognition of location.

15 years ago

3 minutes

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Archive by Thomas Demand

Thomas Demand toys with our faith in photographs and the historical events that we remember through them. In Archive, 1995, he reconstructs the personal inventory of Nazi propagandist and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl.

15 years ago

3 minutes

Guggenheim exhibition audio guide

The Cremaster Cycle by Matthew Barney

Masculinity, penetration, escape, ego, transcendence and metamorphoses are just some of the concepts investigated in Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle film series.

15 years ago

2 minutes

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Easyfun-Ethereal series; Sandwiches by Jeff Koons

These photo-realistic paintings by Jeff Koons overwhelm the viewer, ensuring, like the advertising world, that there is little time to recognise one’s desires before another product is thrust upon us.

15 years ago

2 minutes

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Works by Sarah Anne Johnson and Gregory Crewdson

The relationship between truth and fiction is played out in this selection of works from Sarah Anne Johnson’s series Tree Planting, 2003-2005, while Gregory Crewdson’s work Untitled (family dinner), 2001-2002, centres on uncanny human behaviour.

15 years ago

3 minutes

Guggenheim exhibition audio guide

Electric Chair by Andy Warhol

The electric chair, then a common device for capital punishment in America, first featured in Warhol’s art in 1963 as part of his Death and Disaster series.

15 years ago

3 minutes

Guggenheim exhibition audio guide

Wall Drawing No. 264 by Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitt was a pioneer of conceptual, minimal and process art. His geometric Wall Drawing No. 264, 1975, was produced for this exhibition by an assistant who studied with LeWitt.

15 years ago

1 minute

Guggenheim exhibition audio guide

Untitled by Donald Judd

Donald Judd disliked the term ‘minimalism’ but most of his works are so described. Untitled, 1971, is an investigation of space, volume, the repeated unit, and the void.

15 years ago

2 minutes

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Soft Pay-Telephone by Claes Oldenburg

While many Pop artists maintained the manufactured identity of the objects they worked with, Claes Oldenburg casually undermined them as can be seen in his work Soft Pay-Telephone, 1963.

15 years ago

1 minute

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Untitled (to Jan and Ron Greenberg), 1972-1973

Untitled (to Jan and Ron Greenberg) (1972–1973) illustrates Dan Flavin’s habit of naming his artworks as a tribute to friends, family or historical figures, the only personal element in what is otherwise an entirely industrial environment.

15 years ago

2 minutes

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Floating Room by Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman explores the capacity to trick human perception and elicit strong emotional and intellectual responses with his propositions as evidenced in this work Floating Room, 1972 (Light Outside, Dark Inside).

15 years ago

2 minutes

Guggenheim exhibition audio guide

Years of Fear by Roberto Matta

“Everything in this painting was psychological” said Chilean artist Roberto Matta of his painting Years of Fear which he created following the outbreak of war in Europe. “It was a deep wish to measure what can be felt.”

15 years ago

2 minutes

Guggenheim exhibition audio guide

Paintings by Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko

The evocation of the infinite is evident in both Jackson Pollock’s Untitled (Green Silver) (c.1949) and Mark Rothko’s Untitled (1947).

15 years ago

2 minutes

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Paintings by Agnes Martin

The maker’s mark and emotive gesture are typically dispensed with in Minimalist art and both White Flower (1960) and Untitled No.14 (1977) exemplify Agnes Martin’s mature expression of this style.

15 years ago

1 minute

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Paintings by Yves Klein and Lucio Fontana

Yves Klein strives to depict space without limits in his painitng Untitled red monochrome (1959) while Lucio Fontana manipulates the canvas as an independent spatial entity in his painting Concetto spaziale, Attese (1965).

15 years ago

3 minutes

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Paintings by Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis

Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis worked with methods of staining their canvases, allowing paint and unprimed surface to become one, as can be seen in Frankenthaler’s Canal (1963) and Louis’s Saraband (1959).

15 years ago

2 minutes

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Works by Giacometti, Appel and Pollock

"Nose" (1947) by Alberto Giacometti, "Two" (1943-45) by Karel Appel and "Two Heads" (1953) by Jackson Pollock were shaped by numerous influences, among them Surrealism, Existentialism, Picasso and primitive art.

15 years ago

2 minutes