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4A currently closed for deinstall
Our gallery is currently closed to the public for deinstall in preparation for the launch of an exciting new exhibition Zhang Rui 张 瑞: One Year 一年 opening Thursday 27 June 6 – 8 PM. For enquiries and deliveries please contact 02 9212 0380. Make sure you’re subscribed to our mailing list on the sidebar for the latest More…
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In Possible Worlds
Elly Kent, Claudia Nicholson, Tianli Zu
19 April - 8 June 2013
In Possible Worlds brings together a selection of recent works by Australian artists Elly Kent, Claudia Nicholson, and Tianli Zu. Touching on themes of intimacy, dislocation, violence and the pleasures of ordinary life, In Possible Worlds encourages us to question the concrete reality of visual fact when faced with shifting realms of meaning beneath the More…
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One Year 一年
Zhang Rui 张 瑞
28 June – 17 August 2013
One Year (一年) presents a new collection of paintings by Chinese-born artist Zhang Rui (张 瑞). Having moved to Sydney one year ago, the body of work in One Year portrays Rui’s development of a visual language working across the context of her experiences of China and Australia. Faced with new physical and psychological environments, More…
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The Floating Eye: Sydney Pavilion at the 9th Shanghai Biennale 2012
Brook Andrew, Bababa International, Shaun Gladwell, Raquel Ormella, Khaled Sabsabi, and Shen Shaomin
3 October - 30 December 2012
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art proudly presents The Sydney Pavilion, titled The Floating Eye as part of the 9th Shanghai Biennale 2012, Reactivation. The Shanghai Biennale is the largest international art event in mainland China, expected to attract over 8 million visitors and is led in 2012 by Qiu Zhijie (Chief Curator) and co-curators, Jens Hoffman More…
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Dad and Mum, Don’t Worry About Us, We Are All Well
Song Dong
5 January - 30 March 2013
Dad and Mum, Don’t Worry About Us, We Are All Well is an exhibition of work by Song Dong spanning the last 30 years Emerging as an important artist during a period of significant cultural, social and economic transformation in China, Song Dong’s work reinforces the family unit as a microcosm for society at large. Song Dong More…
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Waste Not
Song Dong
5 January - 17 March 2013
Carriageworks and 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in association with Sydney Festival proudly presents, Waste Not by Song Dong. From his family home in Beijing, to the Museum of Modern Art in New York to the Barbican Art Gallery in London, Waste Not presented at Carriageworks is a transformative installation by one of China’s pre-eminent More…
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4A Annual Members Exhibition 2012
23 NOVEMBER - 1 DECEMBER 2012
The Board of 4A invites you and your guests to the opening of 4A ANNUAL MEMBERS’ EXHIBITION 2012 Launch: 6-8PM Thursday 22 November 2012 Venue: 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art 181-187 Hay Street, Haymarket (between Pitt and George St) Exhibition dates: 23 November – 1 December 2012 Want to exhibit at 4A? Whether you’re an emerging artist wanting to crack More…
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Survivor
Dadang Christanto
Touring in 2012 & 2013
Dadang Christanto’s performance, Survivor, will tour to a number of NSW regional galleries throughout 2012 and 2013. Survivor by Dadang Christanto is a performance by contemporary Indonesian-Australian artist Dadang Christanto and continues his interrogation of disaster and its human impact through a performance based on events in the Sidoarjo region of East Java where hot volcanic mud has wiped More…
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Cola Project Reviewed in ArtAsiaPacific
13 July 2012
Cola Project by He Xiangyu is reviewed in the current issue of ArtAsiaPacific by Rachel Kent. Check out, Issue 79, Jul/Aug 2012. More…
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Variable Truth
Tony Albert, Brook Andrew, Melissa Howe, Roslisham Ismail aka Ise, Michael Lee, Greg Semu, Alexander Seton, Tim Silver, Tony Twigg.
25 May - 14 July 2012
Variable Truth examines alternative aesthetic and conceptual trajectories in contemporary art based upon close readings of Australian art and social history. The exhibition includes Australian and international artists who examine the Asia-Pacific Region to inform an expanded understanding of their own historical trajectories. In recent history, Australia’s cultural environment has experienced drastic shifts due to increased More…
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art is an initiative of the Asian Australian Artists Association Inc. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its funding and advisory body; the NSW Government through Arts NSW and the City of Sydney. Champions: Kerr and Judith Neilson; Principal Patrons: Daniel and Lyndell Droga; Patrons; Geoff Ainsworth AM, Grasshopper Bar, Johnson Pilton Walker, John Lam-Po-Tang, Dr Gene Sherman AM and Brian Sherman AM, VisAsia and Adrian Williams; Benefactors: AMP Foundation; Andrew Cameron, ARNDT Fine Art, ARTCELL, Richard Funston and Kiong Lee, Simon Mordant AO and Catriona Mordant, Vicky Olsson, Lisa Paulsen, Dr Dick Quan, Andrew Rothery and Julia Champtaloup, The Sky Foundation and Lucy Hughes Turnbull AO; Friends: Brooke and Steve Aitken, Luisa Catanzaro, Ari and Lisa Droga, Choi Ropiha Fighera, Julian and Stephanie Grose, Tonee Holley Knowles and James Knowles, Annette Larkin, Akira and Tomoko Nakayama, Susan Nathan, Becky Sparks and James Roland, Victoria Taylor, Anna Waldmann and Dr John Yu AC.
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