Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
(c) 011 Never Sorry, LLC

Ai Weiwei is China’s most famous international artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. Against a backdrop of strict censorship and an unresponsive legal system, Ai expresses himself and organises people through art and social media. In response, Chinese authorities have shut down his blog, beat him up, bulldozed his newly built studio, and held him in secret detention.

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
(c) 011 Never Sorry, LLC

AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY is the inside story of a dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics. First-time director Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to Ai
while working as a journalist in China. Her detailed portrait provides a
nuanced exploration of contemporary China and one of its most compelling public figures.

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
(c) 011 Never Sorry, LLC

 More information at Madman

Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
(c) 2012 Show of Force LLC and Mudpuppy Films Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, Marina Abramović has been redefining what art is for nearly 40 years. Using her own body as a vehicle, pushing herself beyond her limits – and at times risking her life in the process – she creates performances that challenge, shock, and move us.

Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
(c) 2012 Show of Force LLC and Mudpuppy Films Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
(c) 2012 Show of Force LLC and Mudpuppy Films Inc. All Rights Reserved.

MARINA ABRAMOVIC: THE ARTIST IS PRESENT follows the artist as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a major new retrospective of her work, taking place at The Museum of Modern Art. To be given a retrospective at one of the world’s premier museums is the most exhilarating sort of milestone. For Marina, it is far more: it is the chance to finally silence the question she has been hearing over and over again for four decades: “But why is this art?”

More information at Madman

DARK MOFO
June 13 – 23 2013
at MONA

Celebrate the dark through large-scale public art, food, music, light and noise.

Dark Mofo 2013 is the Museum of Old and New Art’s inaugural winter festival.
It will be celebrating both ancient and contemporary mythologies: darkness
and light, birth and death, fire and ice. Dark Mofo will also provide a feast of good music, art and food.

Dark Mofo runs June 13-23, 2013 in and around Hobart, with concerts and performances; MONA’s first large-scale public art projection and exhibition, ‘Beam In Thine Own Eye’; the Hobart City Council Dark Mofo ‘Winter Feast’ that will enliven the Hobart waterfront with food, fire and dance; plus the Mona til Midnight opening of the new major exhibition, ‘The Red Queen’; a Dark Mofo Films program; along with the usual Mofo shenanigans and some dark debauchery at Dark Faux Mo.

See the full program here.

Lindsay Seers, Born 1966, Mauritius; lives and works in London, England, Nowhere Less Now 2
2012 – 13 Courtesy of the artist 2013 and MONA, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The Red Queen exhibition June 19, 2013 – April 21, 2014

Photo Credit: MONA/Rebecca Fitzgibbon. Image Courtesy Moorilla, Tasmania, Australia. Dark Mofo 2013 – Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Hobart Tasmania www.darkmofo.net.au

IAN BURNS, Movement Image, 2012, Wood, lights, magnifying glasses, timing system, Sculpture: 170 x 125 x 110 cm, Projection distance variable, Image courtesy the artist, Anna Schwartz Gallery and mother’s tankstation and Dark Mofo – the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Hobart Tasmania www.darkmofo.net.au

Joanna Dudley & Schneider TM (Dirk Dresselhaus) are Louis & Bebe. Dark Mofo – the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Hobart Tasmania www.darkmofo.net.au

Spectra (Buenos Aires), site-specific installation, 2012 © Ryoji Ikeda / Dark Mofo 2013 – Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Hobart Tasmania www.darkmofo.net.au

www.darkmofo.net.au

Pan troglodytes / chimpanzee 2012
Equatorial Africa, IUCN threat status: endangered
Belgian military, camouflage jacket (worn in Belgian Congo), wire, aluminium, plastic, nails, Blackberry, glass beads
48 x 72 x 115 cm
Courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Fiona Hall – Big Game Hunting
28 March – 21 July 2013
Heide Museum of Modern Art

Heide Museum of Modern Art presents Big Game Hunting, a major exhibition
of recent works by one of Australia’s most prominent contemporary artists: Fiona Hall. The exhibition is the first survey of Hall’s work in Melbourne since 1994, and also marks the Australian premiere of Fall Prey, an installation she created for the prestigious world art event dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany in 2012.

Ailuropoda melanoleuca / giant panda 2012
China, IUCN threat status: endangered
Chinese military camouflage trousers, wire, plastic, dominoes, US dollars, light globes, electric plugs
20 x 20 x 20 cm
Courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Fiona Hall: Big Game Hunting
Installation View, Heide Museum of Modern Art
Photograph: John Brash

Fiona Hall works with a broad range of media, creating pieces which transform mundane man-made materials into organic forms with both contemporary and historical resonances.

Also included in the exhibition is an installation of innovatively re-designed beehives produced for the 2010 Biennale of Sydney and a suite of large etchings celebrating the flora and fauna of Arnhem Land.

Heide Museum of Modern Art
7 Templestowe Road
Bulleen, VIC 3105

More information at heide.com.au

Opening Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10am-5pm. Closed Mondays.
Museum Admission: Adult $14, Senior $12, Concession $10
Gardens & Sculpture Park: FREE

Now Available at the DG Online Store

OZ Graphix 9, this print edition of our (almost) annual showcase of creativity from top Australian studios is packed with a wide range of graphics: graphic design, branding, packaging, photography, web design, and illustration.

Cover price:  $17.73 ($19.50 with gst).

A showcase of top-shelf creativity from Australian studios.

Claude MONET
French 1840–1926
Waterlilies, evening effect (Nymphéas, effet du soir) (1897)
oil on canvas
73.0 x 100.0 cm
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Gift of Michel Monet, 1966 (inv. 5167)
© Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, © Bridgeman-Giraudon / Presse 

Monet’s Garden: The Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris will feature more than sixty works devoted to Claude Monet’s iconic garden at Giverny.

The exhibition traces the evolution of these garden motifs over a period of twenty years, revealing the transition of Monet’s purely Impressionist style to the more personal pictorial idiom that he adopted in later life.

NGV Director, Tony Ellwood, said the exhibition would feature Monet’s most well-known works, from a stunning suite of enormous waterlilies paintings to his iconic garden motifs, as well as some rarely seen late paintings.

Claude MONET
French 1840–1926
Waterlilies (Nymphéas) (1916–19)
oil on canvas
150.0 x 197.0 cm
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Gift of Michel Monet, 1966 (inv. 5164)
© Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, © Bridgeman-Giraudon / Presse 

“Monet’s Garden is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience the world of Monet and the garden that became his lifelong obsession. We are thrilled to collaborate with the Musée Marmottan, home to one of the largest collections of works by Monet in the world, to bring these masterpieces to Melbourne for the first time,” said Mr Ellwood.

The exhibition is organised by the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris in association with the National Gallery of Victoria and Art Exhibitions Australia.

More information at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Monet’s Garden: The Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
National Gallery of Victoria
10 May until 8 September 2013
Admission fees apply. Tickets now on sale.

Yuko Shimizu
Illustration where traditional Japanese prints meet surreal comic art.

Yuko Shimizu’s work is a combination of traditional Japanese graphic prints mixed with surreal comic art. Her technique results in some beautifully executed and alluring scenes: where she draws her basic forms and figures with Japanese calligraphy brushes and later digitally supplements them with additional colors and backgrounds.

This collection explores the relationship between East and West present in her work: American pop and Japanese comic culture are brought together to display science-fiction fantasies and personal creative visions, which are often erotically charged.

Yuko Shimizu has won numerous international awards and has done commissioned work for the New Yorker, Rolling Stone,SPIN, Playboy, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, Microsoft, Pepsi, VISA, MTV, and the New York Times.

More information at Gestalten

By: Yuko Shimizu
Release Date: September 2011
Format: 17 x 24 cm
Features: 160 pages, full color, hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-89955-387-1
Catalog Price: €19.90 / $30.00 / £17.50

The new ADERG Channel is now live at:
www.dgdesignnetwork.com.au/aderg

The ADERG Channel is an online extension of the Art & Design Education Resource Guide (ADERG) that offers additional and more frequent opportunities to explore what to study and where to study.
To get on board, all you have to do is sign up for the ADERG Channel newsletter here.

Essentially, the ADERG Channel is internet-based contact through newsletters, newsfeeds, articles about current events at universities and colleges, a feast of images, social networking and the provision of various digital versions of the content in the print edition of ADERG.

The ADERG Channel will be most active through the times of the year when students are seeking information about the creative courses on offer at tertiary institutions. Students looking for a course of study, and careers advisers who offer professional advice on such matters, will find the ADERG Channel a valuable resource.

To maximise your search for a creative course of study, simply sign up for the ADERG Channel newsletter. This will ensure you receive all you need to stay in touch and keep up-to-date.

What will you see? Newsfeeds, newsletters, Gallery Packs of graduate work, items of interest from the universities and colleges, lists of Open Days and Graduate Exhibitions, social network contact plus more. Please note that the ADERG Channel is a handy internet communication and not a television network, so it’s always accessible over the internet.

ADERG Channel is now live at:
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A History of Graphic Design for Rainy Days
By: Studio 3

What you always wanted to know about graphic design but were afraid to ask.

A History of Graphic Design for Rainy Days follows the journey of a boy and his Grandfather who travel through the history of graphic design stopping at the discipline’s milestones along the way.

Discover the history of graphic design through this illustrated tour, discovering styles including art nouveau, Dada, Bauhaus, and psychedelic to innovators such as William Morris, Jan Tschichold, Saul Bass, and David Carson. Along the way you can also test your knowledge with some fun-filled exercises.

Full of  humorous narratives displayed through beautiful illustrations, A History of Graphic Design for Rainy Days provides a complete resource for discovering all you need to know about graphic design’s history.

More information at Gestalten

By: Studio 3
Release Date: October 2011
Format: 16 x 21 cm
Features: 224 pages, full color, hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-89955-389-5
Catalog Price: €19.90 / $29.90 / £17.99

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Archway Studios is a prototype live‐workspace designed by Undercurrent Architects, which utilises the space in and around a 19th Century rail viaduct in London. Undercurrent Architects aims to adapt these structures, which dominate areas of London, and divide neighbourhoods, by creating a space which has worked with the challenges of its tight surroundings: with the constraints of an inner‐city, industrial site and one which also engages its surroundings.

As one of 10,000 arches that dissect neighbourhoods across London, it is a model that can be adapted for broad community benefit and regeneration.
More information at Undercurrent Architects

Undercurrent Architects
Project Architect – Didier Ryan
Assistant – Alessandra Giannotti
Eckersley O’Callaghan Engineers
Photography: Candice Lake

> You can find more about Undercurrent Architects project Sydney Studio Roof in DG Magazine 131: Cloud Formation: a forecast of dream shapes