Desert Painters of Australia
In Gagosian on Madison Avenue, the dazzling and vibrant works of the Papunya Tula artists were hung uniformly within a white cube space, far from the Western Desert of Australia where they were created. In this first exhibition of Aboriginal art at Gagosian, they joined an impressive legacy of artists shown in the same method of display, such as Francis Bacon, Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler.
Across Australia and the US, the monumental significance of this show being a part of the exhibition program of the gallery giant – which has seventeen locations internationally – has not
