Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri 1957

Woont in Australia. Werkt in Australia.

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SmithDavidson Gallery

Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri was born around 1958 east of Kiwirkurra in Western Australia. In 1984 the international headlines were filled with the ’discovery’ of the last group of Australian Aborigines who until the late 20th century had managed to retain their traditional lifestyle in complete isolation. These so-called ’last of the nomads’ or ‘lost tribe’ of nine Pintupi walked in from the bush west of Lake Owen that year and for the first time came into contact with western civilization. Six of these nine Aborigines became artists. From these six, Warlimpirrnga was the first who started painting after carefully observing other artists from the community at Kiwirkurra. Within three years, Warlimpirrnga transformed from a nomad with a traditional lifestyle into one of the leading artists from the Papunya Tula Artists corporation. In 1988, he held his first exhibition in Melbourne. Warlimpirrnga paints primarily in two styles, he makes extensive use of geometric shapes to depict the stories of the Tingari (ancestors), or he uses lines made up of carefully placed dots in his dreamings that depict holy Lake Mackay, a site of which he is one of the custodians. Warlimpirrnga uses the same dot technique as other Pintupi artists like his brothers, Walala and Thomas, but also George Tjungurrayi.

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Vijftig jaar Papunya

Aboriginal kunst is booming. Deze zomer werd een ambitieus plan goedgekeurd voor een nieuw Aboriginal kunstmuseum in Adelaide, een megaproject ter waarde van ruim 129 miljoen euro. Op een jaarlijkse kunstbeurs voor inheemse kunst in Darwin werd dit jaar voor 2 miljoen euro aan kunst verkocht, een wapenfeit dat er voor zorgde dat de beurs nu inzet op een permanente online marktplaats. De interesse voor inheemse Australische kunst past goed binnen een veranderende kunstwereld waarin voorheen ondergerepresenteerde groepen steeds meer aandacht krijgen.

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Online rondleiding: ORIGINS - SmithDavidson Gallery

In een tijd waarin er, terecht, steeds meer aandacht is voor kunst van ondergerepresenteerde groepen, krijgt ook moderne en hedendaagse Aboriginalkunst een belangrijk podium.

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The three brothers Tjapaltjarri (Thomas, Warlimpirrnga, Walala)

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ART MIAMI

Naata Nungurrayi, Zhuang Hong Yi, Willem van Weeghel, Matthijs Scholten, Lu Luo, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri

5 dec - 10 dec 2023, Miami, USA

Dreaming with your Eyes Open

Paddy Nyunkuny Bedford, Nyanyuma Napangati, Emily Kam Kngwarray, George 'Hairbrush' Tjungurrayi, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri

8 apr - 10 jun 2023, Amsterdam, Nederland

Australian Indigenous Art from the SmithDavidson C

Tommy Watson Yannima, Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri, Elizabeth Nyumi Nungurrayi, Makinti Napanangka, Angelina Ngale Pwerle, Rover Thomas Joolama, Emily Kam Kngwarray, Naata Nungurrayi, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri

7 sep - 20 sep 2022, New York, USA

Summer of Love '21

Jake Tjapaptjarri, Thomas Tjapaltjarri, Angelina Ngale Pwerle, Lita Cabellut, Ronald A. Westerhuis, Gavin Rain, Zhuang Hong Yi, Paul Rousso, Marc Lagrange, Willem van Weeghel, Marie Cecile Thijs, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri

31 jul - 23 aug 2021, Amsterdam, Nederland

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Selected Exhibitions
2021-2022 - ‘Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past & Present Together): 50 years of Papunya Tula Artists’, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
2021 - Papunya 50 Years, 1971 - 2021, SmithDavidson Gallery Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021 - ‘Aboriginalisties’, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
2020 - ‘ORIGINS, Australian Aboriginal Art from the SmithDavidson Collection’, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017 - Modern Masters, SmithDavidson Gallery, Miami, USA
2015 - Pérez Museum, Miami, USA
2015 - ‘Signs and Traces. Contemporary Aboriginal Art.’ Zamek Cultural Centre, Poznan, Poland
2012 - dOKUMENTA (13), Fridericianum Museum, Kassel, Germany
2009 - Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
2003 - Kintore Kiwirrkurra, Melbourne, Australia
2002-2005 - Native Title Business - Contemporary Indigenous Art, a national travelling exhibition
1999 - Exhibition with Ray James Tjangala, Gabrielle Pizzi Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1993 - Aboriginal Art Exhibition, Kung Gubunga, Oasis Gallery, Broadbeach, Australia
1991-1992 - Friendly Country, Friendly People, Touring Exhibition, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Australia
1990 - ‘I'Ete Australien à Montpellier’, Musée Fabre Gallery, Montpellier, France
1989 - ‘Mythscapes’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Selected Art Fairs
Art New York, New York, USA
EXPO Chicago, Chicago, USA
Art Miami, Miami, USA
The Armory Show, New York, USA
Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Selected Literature
Hetti Perkins, Art + Soul, Miegunyah Press, 2011, p. 76;
Paul Toohey, 'The Last Nomads', The Bulletin, 4 May 2004, p.28-35;
Joan Winter, Native Title Business, Contemporary Indigenous Art (Catalogue), Keeira Press, Queensland, 2002;
P. Corbally Stourton, Songlines and dreamings: contemporary Australian aboriginal painting, Lund Humphries, 1996, p. 177;
Vivian Johnson, The Dictionary of Western Desert Artists, Craftsman House, East Roseville, New South Wales, 1994;
F. Dussart, La Peinture des Aborigines D'Australie, Editions Parentheses, Marseille, 1993;
S. Crossman and J-P. Barou, L'ete Australien a Montpellier: 100 Chefs d'Oevre de la Peinture Australienne, Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France, 1990;
J. Ryan, Mythscapes Aboriginal Art of the Desert from the National Gallery of Victoria, exhib. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1989.

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