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12 national gallery of australia (opposite, left to right) Kiefer La Vie secrète des plantes [The secret life of plants] 2002; Smithson Rocks and mirror square II 1971; Kiefer Abendland [Twilight of the West] 1989 (left to right) Brancusi Birds in space 1931–36; Cy Twombly Untitled 1987–2004 bronze, no. 4 from an edition of six 368.3 x 88.9 x 34.3 cm Purchased 2006 with the generous assistance of Roslyn Packer and members of the NGA Foundation: John Kaldor and Naomi Milgrom, Julie Kantor, Andrew Rogers; Kounellis Untitled 1990 (detail); Bourgeois C.O.Y.O.T.E. 1941–48
has remarked, it is named after a 1973 book by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird which investigates the physical, emotional and spiritual relations between plants, humans and the universe. Another contemporary artist who cogitates on questions of culture and history is the American Cy Twombly, who has lived and worked in Italy for the last fifty-five years. As well as paintings and drawings, Twombly makes sculptures. They are often assembled from industrial metal, plastic or wooden objects, then painted white and occasionally cast in bronze in small editions. Untitled 2005, one of an edition of six, has a unique patina, or surface treatment, of mottled pale grey-green. The patina has something of the quality of lichen covering gravestones in a shady cemetery, which is appropriate as it serves as a kind of memorial to a friend of the artist. Inscribed on the base are the words ‘In memory of Dominique Bozo’, who was head of the Pompidou Centre until his premature death in 1993. But ‘Victory’ is also written high on the work. It has a sail form, and a rectangular base, and stands the same height as a classical Greek sculpture in the Louvre, the Victory of Samothrace. She was the goddess of victory. The equivocal nature of death and memory is recalled when we consider that Admiral Nelson won the Battle of Trafalgar from his flagship – and was fatally wounded on board – the Victory. Returning sculpture to the grand, meditative space of the lower level, now known as the National Australia Bank Sculpture Gallery, hopefully restores the original intention of the National Gallery’s founders to showcase sculpture as a central part of the collection, and to display it as a powerful and extraordinary medium of modern art. a Christine Dixon Senior Curator, International Painting and Sculpture artonview spring 2007 13
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