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As the first art fair in the world, Art Cologne is the most important meeting point for galleries and institutions in Germany and has been an occasion for generations of art collectors to discover, collect, exchange ideas and establish new contacts.
The gallery’s presentation for 2023 highlights the specific era between 1985 and 2010 of the ‘Second Generation’ painters.
An era in which female painters take the lead and whose innovations greatly expanded the art movement.
SmithDavidson has prepared a carefully curated exhibition featuring no less than twelve important works by Emily KamKngwarray. This together with a selection of works by other celebrated female artists such as Naata Nungurrayi, Barbara Weir, Gloria Petyarre, Maggie Watson Napangardi and Minnie Pwerle, will give vistors to the show a wonderful insight into this most unique and special art movement. Utopian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray is without a doubt the most notable artist from this era and her ability to experiment with both subject matter, composition and color has changed our understanding of ‘Australian Aboriginal Art’. At the same time artists such as Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa - or ‘Mrs.Bennett’ the wife of the late artist John John Bennett - and Naata Nungurrayi, expanded the art of the Western Desert with new color schemes and subjectmatters. By telling their own stories inspired by the Women’s Dreamings hidden from the male perspective and, up to that point, also from the art world at large, these artist opened the the eyes of many to a visual dialogue previously unknown.
