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The Hassell Collection
There is a long-established tendency in museums and galleries to emphasise fundamental differences between indigenous and non-indigenous Australian art at the expense of any common ground they might possibly share. Private collectors tend to be less inhibited in this regard. They are much more open to the play of analogies, rapports and apparent convergences of works, even if these be no more than accidental and fleeting.
This outstanding private collection braces indigenous and non-indigenous works in a utopian vision, where there is the possibility of exchange between equals, where the playing field is level, where the indigenous seems to be normative and the non-indigenous a series of unconscious, deeply reverential and somehow secondary echoes. A veritable feast for the eye and a balm to the spirit not to be missed.
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There is a long-established tendency in museums and galleries to emphasise fundamental differences between indigenous and non-indigenous Australian art at the expense of any common ground they might possibly share. Private collectors tend to be less inhibited in this regard. They are much more open to the play of analogies, rapports and apparent convergences of works, even if these be no more than accidental and fleeting.
This outstanding private collection braces indigenous and non-indigenous works in a utopian vision, where there is the possibility of exchange between equals, where the playing field is level, where the indigenous seems to be normative and the non-indigenous a series of unconscious, deeply reverential and somehow secondary echoes. A veritable feast for the eye and a balm to the spirit not to be missed.
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