Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond
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- Almost four centuries after its creation, Gian Lorenzo Bernini's 'Ecstasy of Saint Teresa' (1652) remains the supreme emblem of religious visionary experience and the Baroque sensibility in art. Understanding ecstasy to encompass states of exaltation beyond the sensuous suffering of Bernini's sculpture, 'Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond' brings together older depictions of ecstasy with more recent works focused on the transcendence of normal consciousness, including trances, moments of expanded awareness, and visionary insight. From representations of saints and mystics, to dreamscapes and images of bacchanalian revels, this exhibition explores how Baroque style – characterised by exaggeration, high drama, extravagance, frenzy, and excess – continues to inform contemporary art.
Curator: Dr Andrea Bubenik
PIETRO AQUILA | CHRIS BENNIE | ANASTASIA BOOTH | LOUISE BOURGEOIS | SALVADOR DALI | AUDREY FLACK | BILL HENSON | PETRINA HICKS | WILLIAM HOGARTH | GORDON MATTA-CLARK | CLAUDE MELLAN | NIGEL MILSOM | GIROLAMO NERLI | GORDON SHEPHERDSON | DAVID STEPHENSON | HIROMI TANGO | DAVID WADELTON
An exhibition partnership between UQ Art Museum and the UQ Node, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100–1800).
Art Museum hours: 10.00am - 4.00pm daily, free entry
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