Autumn Exhibition Suite 5 x 5 – the Artist and the Patron 24 March 2018 - 20 May 2018 The artist-collector relationship has existed for millennia, manifesting in multiple forms with varying outcomes. The enormous patronage of the Medici family enabled Raphael and Leonardo to put their sole focus into their art. John and Sunday Reed invited a young Sidney Nolan inside their world, creating a consummate creative union. Judith Nielsen helped usher contemporary Chinese artists from an emerging artist to legend status. Each example has yielded significant cultural outputs reverberating through different times and geographies. 5X5 recognizes the cultural significance of these types of pairings by exploring the trajectories of five artists and their parallel collector relationships.
↧