Free Ongoing Exhibitions at Art Gallery of South Australia

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Metamorphosis at Gallery 16, Melrose Wing

Featuring over 40 works from across AGSA’s collection, many of which have never been seen before, Metamorphosis looks at themes of transformation and change in nature, the body and materials. The concept of metamorphosis is an enduring wellspring for artists across centuries, countries and art forms. Artists understand that change sometimes occurs in surprising and non-linear ways like a butterfly breaking out of a chrysalis and dramatically transforming into something entirely new.

Chiharu Shiota: Absence Embodied at Gallery 14

Immersive site-specific commission by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota . She is recognised by the world over for her string installations. In her conceptually driven practice, Shiota attempts to represent what it means to be human. Beginning as autobiographical excavations, her installations draw on personal experiences, emotions and memories to create universally resonant works. Chiharu Shiota's labyrinthine installations weave a complex web of waking life and fading memories.

Elder Wing of Australian Art at Galleries 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5

Following the success of Colours of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Muséed'Orsay, the Gallery's grand Elder Wing welcomes a new hang of Australian art. This renewed display of Australian art is curated with a focus on the major moments in our history and highlights the national, regional and local nuances of Aboriginal art, colonial art, Australian Impressionism and Modernism. This exciting project utilises a fresh methodology for seeing and experiencing Australian art, namely, one that explores the flexibility of identity and the fluidity of belonging.

Donald Judd: Untitled at the Courtyard

A rare minimalist site-specific sculpture by International artist Donald Judd can be found at the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) Courtyard. The creation of Donald Judd’s triangular concrete sculptural form wasn’t meant to be on AGSA’s north lawn.

Judd (1928–1994) had been due to make a site-specific work in Sydney while visiting Australia in 1974 for the exhibition Some Recent American Art, on tour from New York’s Museum of Modern Art. However, when the Sydney site fell through, AGSA seized the opportunity and offered its lawn as an alternative. Believing the new site to be flat, Judd began to conceive ideas for the work at AGSA – only to dispense with them when he reached Adelaide and discovered a gentle slope. While in the city in May 1974, he made new drawings and pegged out the ground. His envisaged steel became concrete, its shape became triangular, and its slanting topmost surfaces reflected the unexpected lie of the land.

Judd’s Untitled, 1974–75, is a truly site-specific work, a ‘topographic object’ representing an artistic response not only to its immediate terrain but also to the undulating landscape of circumstance.

Lindy Lee: The Life of Stars at North Terrace

Situated at the entrance of the Art Gallery of South Australia on North Terrace, Lindy Lee ’s six-metre sculpture The Life of Stars dominates and links the Art Gallery of South Australia and its exterior forecourt by its ethereal sparkly presence. Visible by day and night, The Life of Stars appears both to contain and radiate light.

Fabricated by Lee in China, its oval form and perforated concentric circles refer to Indra’s net, which is a metaphor for Mahayana Buddhism, symbolising the universe as a vast web of connections. The work consists of steel and marble, which together suggest a universe within and the beginnings of life itself. The Life of Stars was presented as part of the 2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Divided Worlds.

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