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Book cover of Anangu Collective, featuring a grey Aboriginal pattern with circles. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Anangu Collective, featuring a grey Aboriginal pattern with circles. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Anangu Collective, featuring a grey Aboriginal pattern with circles. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Anangu Collective, featuring a grey Aboriginal pattern with circles. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Anangu Collective, featuring a grey Aboriginal pattern with circles. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Anangu Collective, featuring a grey Aboriginal pattern with circles. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Anangu Collective, featuring a grey Aboriginal pattern with circles. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Anangu Collective, featuring a grey Aboriginal pattern with circles. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Anangu Collective, featuring a grey Aboriginal pattern with circles. Published by 5 Continents Editions.
Book cover of Anangu Collective, featuring a grey Aboriginal pattern with circles. Published by 5 Continents Editions.

Anangu Collective

By (author) Georges Petitjean
By (author) Lisa Slade

$35.99

  • Dedicated to two major large collaborative canvases by male and female artists of the APY (Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara) Lands and the Kulata Tjuta installation by artists of that same region
Full Description
Why are these specific artworks the subject of this first monograph? Produced in 2018, the sumptuous paintings, as is the Kulata Tjuta Kupi Kupi installation, are collaborative artworks. They are reminiscent of the collaborative production process of art in Aboriginal Australia. These major works, in which a variety of Dreaming stories that define the region converge, form cornerstones of the collection that lies at the heart of the Fondation Opale. The Fondation Opale, and its founder and driving force Bérengère Primat, has a particularly strong and active relationship with the art centers and the artists of that region of Australia. Several journeys were made to the APY lands in Central Australia. Both paintings, to which respectively several senior women and men collaborated, were commissioned by Bérengère Primat and the painting process abundantly documented. These magisterial paintings are testimony to the continuum of culture and intimate knowledge of the land through art. Kupi Kupi, an iteration of the ongoing Kulata Tjuta (many spears in the Pitjantjatjara language) initiated in 2010, is a contemporary and monumental art installation consisting of 1500 spears. It is a metaphor for contemporary Anangu society and the unpredictable direction in which it is moving.

All these artworks are testimony to the renewal and relevancy of Aboriginal art in contemporary times.

Text in English and French.

About the Author

Georges Petitjean is an art historian and obtained his Ph.D. with research on the art of the Western Australian Desert. His main field of research is the transformation of primordial Aboriginal art into contemporary art. Lisa Slade is assistant director for art programs at the Art Gallery of South Australia. 

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Specifications
Publisher
Five Continents Editions
ISBN
9788874399611
Published
7th Jun 2021
Binding
Hardback
Territory
USA & Canada
Size
7.87 in x 9.84 in
Pages
128 Pages
Illustrations
45 color
Name of series
Gay'wu Aboriginal Arts and Knowledge
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