Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art

Colliding Worlds

Samstag Alumni and Patricia Piccinini and Anna Platten

The works in Colliding Worlds feature very different mediums – sculpture, animation, new-media, painting and installation – and works by leading Samstag alumni Pia Borg, Nicholas Folland, Hayden Fowler and Shaun Kirby as well as Patricia Piccinini and Anna Platten.

Art Exhibition previously on at Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art in Adelaide precinct, South Australia, Australia.
From Friday 15 May 2009 to Friday 24 July 2009
Launch Friday 15 May 2009, 6-8pm

Published by anonymous on Friday 24 April 2009.
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Colliding Worlds is an allegory of modern times, where ‘difference’ and the unavoidable collision of competing ideas and values threaten the natural order.

The works in Colliding Worlds feature very different mediums – sculpture, animation, new-media, painting and installation – and works by leading Samstag alumni Pia Borg, Nicholas Folland, Hayden Fowler and Shaun Kirby as well as Patricia Piccinini and Anna Platten.

The exhibition is a feature event of the 2009 Come Out Festival program, whose overall theme – Colliding Worlds – is inspired by a 1932 science fiction novel by Philip Wylie (When Worlds Collide) which tells the story of two fictional rogue planets that enter our solar system and cause catastrophic damage and the end of civilisation.

Image: Hayden Fowler, Second Nature (detail) 2008, chromogenic photograph on fuji flex, 105 × 130 cm or 75 × 93 cm, photograph by Joy Lai. Image © the artist and Gallery Barry Keldoulis

Colliding Worlds is a 2009 Come Out Festival exhibition.