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The Art of Humanity

9 July 2008

The work of renowned Australian artist Diena Georgetti features in a new exhibition at the Monash University Museum of Art.

The Humanity of Abstract Painting 1988-2008 is the poetic title of the latest exhibition at the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA).

Presented by MUMA in partnership with the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, the exhibition is the first major survey of renowned Australian artist Diena Georgetti.

From early blackboard paintings, which achieved considerable critical attention when first shown in 1989 at Brisbane's Institute of Modern Art, and subsequently at the 1992 Biennale of Sydney, to recent paintings co-opting early modernist styles, this exhibition presents the full scope of Georgetti's intriguing and diverse catalogue.

Director of Monash University Museum of Art and co-curator of the exhibition Max Delany said the exhibition, which includes ten works, revealed Georgetti's enigmatic and elusive artistic practice and granted her overdue recognition.

The exhibition brings together works from various private collections in Australia and New Zealand, as well as from several public collections.

Georgetti has a longstanding relationship with the museum, having been included in a number of significant group exhibitions at MUMA over the past decade.

For further information on the exhibition visit the Monash University Museum of Art website.