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Made from silicone, fiberglass and even human hair, her sculptures are breathtakingly lifelike, however, we can't be sure what life they are like. The
artist creates an exuberant parallel universe where transgenic experiments flourish and human evolution has given way to genetic engineering and DNA splicing.
"Curious Affection" is a timely and welcome recognition of Piccinini's enormous contribution to Australian art reaching back to the mid-1990s. Working
across a variety of mediums including photography, video and drawing, she is perhaps best known for her hyperreal sculptures. As a genre, hyperrealism
depends on the skill of the artist to create the illusion of reality. To be truly successful, it must convince the spectator of its realness. Piccinini
acknowledges this demand, but with a delightful twist. The excruciating attention to detail deliberately solicits our desire to look, only to generate
unease, as her sculptures are imbued with a fascinating otherness. Part human, part animal, the works are uncannily familiar, but also alarmingly other.
With more than 70 works on display, the entire ground floor has been handed over to Piccinini, a first for an Australian artist. The flamboyant exuberance
of GOMA's soaring atrium is utilised and the visitor is welcomed by an enormous inflatable sculpture, "Pneutopia" (2018). With echoes of Piccinini's "Sky
Whale" (2013), commissioned by the ACT Government as part of its centenary celebrations, "Pneutopia" moves with air currents circulating in the atrium,
artist creates an exuberant parallel universe where transgenic experiments flourish and human evolution has given way to genetic engineering and DNA splicing.
"Curious Affection" is a timely and welcome recognition of Piccinini's enormous contribution to Australian art reaching back to the mid-1990s. Working
across a variety of mediums including photography, video and drawing, she is perhaps best known for her hyperreal sculptures. As a genre, hyperrealism
depends on the skill of the artist to create the illusion of reality. To be truly successful, it must convince the spectator of its realness. Piccinini
acknowledges this demand, but with a delightful twist. The excruciating attention to detail deliberately solicits our desire to look, only to generate
unease, as her sculptures are imbued with a fascinating otherness. Part human, part animal, the works are uncannily familiar, but also alarmingly other.
With more than 70 works on display, the entire ground floor has been handed over to Piccinini, a first for an Australian artist. The flamboyant exuberance
of GOMA's soaring atrium is utilised and the visitor is welcomed by an enormous inflatable sculpture, "Pneutopia" (2018). With echoes of Piccinini's "Sky
Whale" (2013), commissioned by the ACT Government as part of its centenary celebrations, "Pneutopia" moves with air currents circulating in the atrium,
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