Tingari, Circa 2014

George Tjungurrayi  

A sober and intense representative of Pintupi art, George Tjungurrayi is distinguished above all by the expressive force of the composition, the power of the line, the energy, the dynamism of the line and the optical effects. He is one of the most brilliant and active artists of the 1990s and 2000s. Born around 1947, he was taken to Papunya with other Pintupi in 1962, before that living in a nomadic and very traditional way. His personality, his knowledge and his career as an international artist make him one of the pintupi leaders. He is a colossus, a man of imposing stature, very impressive, with large scarifications that cross his chest. But her gaze always seems elsewhere - in the Dream? All he has to do is let spring in himself and on the canvas what he seems to guess in the distance, inside. And since I am often asked if artists do a preparatory drawing, let us specify that this is never the case. The painting seems to come to life from a matrix that would be there, in this dream world. Of course, this is only rhetoric since in principle these motifs have their roots in ceremonies, since the dawn of time. The surfaces overlap, shift, adjust by a mysterious path drawn from within. There, undoubtedly for a second, we are faced with a contemporary painting and at the same time, we feel the power and the magic of the Dream. This magic of the Dream then becomes visible even to us, not initiated into its mysteries. Collections: Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaïde, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Grõninger Museum, Groningen, Pays Bas, The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA , National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, University of Virginia, USA, Corrigan Coll, ...