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Ah Xian (b.1960, Beijing) is one of Australia’s most prominent contemporary artists, known for his striking life-sized sculptures made of materials including cloisonné, porcelain, concrete, fibreglass, bronze, jade and Ox-bone inlay and latex.
A self-taught painter, Ah Xian became a professional artist in the 1980s and has been involved in the avant-garde art movement in China. Since moving to Australia, Ah Xian has exhibited across the country and around the world since the 1990s. Major solo exhibitions include Ah Xian: Naturepgysica, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA, 2016); Metaphysica, QAGOMA (2013); Ah Xian, Gemeentemuseum, the Hague, the Netherlands (2008); Ah Xian: Skulpturen, Städtische Museen, Heilbronn, Germany (2007); China Reconfigured: The Art of Ah Xian, Asia Society Museum, New York, United States (2002); China, China: recent works in porcelain by Ah Xian, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney (2001); China: a series of works in porcelain by Ah Xian, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne (2000).
Ah Xian is the winner of the National Gallery of Australia’s inaugural National Sculpture Prize (2001), the recipient of the Clemenger Contemporary Art Award from the National Gallery of Victoria (2009) and the recipient of the QAGOMA Medal (2
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Exhibition dates: 25th March – 21st August 2022
Entrance of the exhibition WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture at NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne
Photo: Marcus Bunyan
The black and white show
This is a challenging and stimulating exhibition at NGV Australia, Federation Square that attempts to answer the question: “who are you” when coming to terms with what it is to be an Australian.
“WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture is one of the most comprehensive explorations of portraiture ever mounted in Australia and the first exhibition to bring together the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra… [it] considers portraiture in Australia across time and media, as well as the role of the portraiture genre in the development of a sense of Australian national identity… The exhibition also questions what actually constitutes portraiture by examining the surprising and sometimes unconventional ways of representing likeness… Presented across five thematic sections, the exhibition raises challenging and provocative questions about who we are and how we view others – historically, today and into the future…
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