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L’Appartement is proud to announce "Great Affinities", an exhibition that brings together a diverse group of international artists working across different generations and cultural backgrounds to create a transhistorical dialogue between the works of artists such as Sol LeWitt, Howardena Pindell, Marina Adams, Antonakis, Jean Paul Riopelle, Piero Dorazio and André Masson, alongside renowned Australian Aboriginal artists including Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Helen McCarthy Tyalmuty, Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (aka Mrs. Bennett), Yukultji Napangati and Yannima Tommy Watson. The exhibition intended as a visual dialogue between two seemingly disparate art making traditions, explores abstraction as a universal language that offers common ground, exceeding cultural, geographical or linguistic boundaries. Pursuing a different collective vision, the works in this exhibition reveal often surprising connections and trace an interweaving skein of approaches that reveal a deep, ever-evolving engagement with abstraction.

With no written language, Indigenous Australian cultures used a sophisticated and complex visual language which is fundamental to the expression of culture and identity. It’s in the making of the work that these artists harness the moment and capture space and time. Their paintings can operate in several realms simultaneously: at one level you can take the microcosm of a single seed or leaf, a loose matrix of Greek patterns based on the structure of the giant plant; and then, when you take a step back, the fine dotting and concentric circles are expanded to take up the entire universe.

The diverse group of artists presented in this exhibition have constantly, throughout their practices, tried to redefine the concept of abstraction and its possibilities for the painterly process. They have used art and color to transcend cultural boundaries and the limitations imposed by language. Most importantly, the exhibition’s geographic breadth demonstrates that artists from all over the world were exploring similar themes of materiality, freedom of expression, perception and gesture, endowing abstraction with their own specific cultural contexts.

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