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PATRICIA PICCININI

Patricia Piccinini’s art is a feverish dream of silicone flesh, gaping orifices and mutant beasts. The Melbourne-based hyperrealist sculptor seems to take pleasure in pressing buttons. Her works engender creeping nausea as much they pull you in with theatrical flair. The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art has worked with Piccinini for the last four years on “Curious Affection,” her largest solo exhibition to date. The

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