The National Gallery of Victoria’s popular Melbourne Now exhibition will return in 2023 with another survey of contemporary art, design and architecture from the past decade.
“Melbourne Now is a showstopping and dynamic survey of work by more than 200 leading Victorian-based practitioners, offering an exciting and thought-provoking snapshot of the limitless creativity empowering this city and its surrounds,” said NGV director Tony Ellwood. “Ranging from large-scale, never-before-seen commissions through to moments of quiet reflection and contemplation, this exhibition highlights the diverse talents of Victorian artists and designers who are at the forefront of contemporary practice world-wide.”
Victoria’s public and residential architecture will form two key components of the exhibition.
Civic Architecture will exhibit five projects that catalyzed the urban transformation of their surrounding neighbourhoods. The projects include: Geelong Library and Heritage Centre by ARM Architecture, Caulfield to Dandenong Level Crossing Removal by Cox Architecture and Aspect Studios, Town Hall Broadmeadows by Kerstin Thompson Architects, Dandenong Municipal Building and Civic Square by Lyons and Rush Wright Associates, and RMIT New Academic Street by Lyons ith NMBW Architecture Studio, Harrison and White, MvS Architects, Maddison Architects and TCL.
To accompany the projects, Simulaa will make a series of 3D-printed models that depict the street furniture, utilities and objects found where each project is located.
WPI Older Women’s Housing Project by Studio Bright.
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Rory Gardiner
Victoria’s residential architecture will also be exhibited alongside contemporary future design in No House Style. Six houses by Austin Maynard, Baracco and Wright, Clare Cousins Architects, Edition Office, Kennedy Nolan, and Studio Bright will be complemented by the works of 12 furniture, lighting and object designers “to establish a picture of contemporary Melbourne architecture and design that is independent, original, plural and expressive of contemporary issues and values,” the NGV said.
N’arweet Carolyn Briggs and Sarah Lynn Rees’s installation Gathering Space: Ngargee Djeembana will also be displayed at Melbourne Now. Originally exhibited at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art as part of Who’s Afraid of Public Space?, the installation comprises 55 pieces of construction materials commonly used in public space, Indigenous to Victoria and representative of Country and place. The installation brings together two subjects: First Nations knowledge and design thinking, and the built environment.
Design Wall, part of the 2013 edition of Melbourne Now, will also return with installation of consumer products designed in Melbourne over the past decade, including guitars, ladders, pillows, luggage and motorbikes.
Melbourne Now will be on display from 24 March to 20 August at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. Entry is free.
Source: Architecture - architectureau
