Julie Mehretu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory - Sydney International Art Series - The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia | 29 November 2024

Event Date: November 29, 2024 - 12:00 AM
Event End Date: April 27, 2025 - 12:00 AM
Cost: $$
Website: www.mca.com.au
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Location: Level 3, The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Dates: 29 November 2024 – 27 April 2025

Experience the monumental works of New York-based artist Julie Mehretu, one of the most significant painters of her generation.

Exclusive to Sydney, this first Asia-Pacific exhibition features new and recent large-scale paintings and works on paper from the mid-1990s to today. Mehretu’s art engages with histories of art, architecture, and urgent contemporary issues.

Julie Mehretu (b. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1970) is one of today’s most acclaimed living painters. The New York artist’s first exhibition in Australia reveals her commitment to painting as a contemporary art form. It traces Mehretu’s ongoing engagement with abstraction as a richly layered language, informed by histories of art and mark-making across millennia, from Chinese ink painting and Japanese manga to rock art, literature and music.

Blurring distinctions between abstraction and figuration, Mehretu’s paintings have a unique ability to inhabit the present moment. To experience them in person is nothing short of a visual and physical event. Her work speaks to the power of art to express the dynamic and intersecting movements of history, people and cultures that shape our understanding of the world.

The exhibition is accompanied by a major publication edited by MCA Director Suzanne Cotter, with contributions from a range of authors including Julie Mehretu, the exhibition curators Suzanne Cotter and Senior Curator, Exhibitions, Jane Devery, artist Daniel Boyd and American writer Erik Morse. The publication is available to purchase from the MCA Store.

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