until Sunday July 28 2013

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
T : +61 2 9245 2400
140 George Street
NSW 2000 Sydney
Australia

Media contact
Kelly Stone
kelly.stone@mca.com.au
www.mca.com.au/

The exhibition features 27 major works produced between 1978 and 2010, ranging from illuminated colour transparencies in light boxes, black and white prints, and colour prints to
intimate small-scale photographic observations.

Highlights include one of the artist’s early works, The Destroyed Room (1978), that refers directly to an old master painting titled The Death of Sardanapalus (1827) by Eugène Delacroix. Wall echoes Delacroix’s sweeping composition and sumptuous palette of blood reds, while acknowledging the work’s staged atmosphere by re-composing the scene as a roughly fabricated stage-set, absent of any players.
Other highlights include A sudden gust of wind (after Hokusai) (1993) based on a woodcut from a famous portfolio, The Thirty-six Views of Fuji, by the Japanese painter and printmaker Katsushika Hokusai (1760- 1849). The work depicts a flat, open landscape in which four foreground figures are frozen as they respond to a sudden gust of wind.
Some of Wall’s more recent works such as Knife throw (2008) and Boy falls from tree (2010) are also featured.