Moving Creates Vortices and Vortices Create Movement by Teamlab, is immersive mirrored room that reacts to visitors' movements. Another highlight is an epic display of 100 oversized human skulls created by Australian artist Ron Mueck.
Inspired by the complex biological structure of the human skull – which the artist considers beautiful and extraordinary – Ron Mueck’s new work Mass, 2016–17, celebrates a form that links us as a species.
Mass is also a sombre study of mortality, and comprising 100 individual human skulls it calls to mind iconic images of massed remains in the Paris catacombs as well as the documentation of contemporary human atrocities in Cambodia, Rwanda, Srebrenica and Iraq.
The skull has been a potent symbol within the art of virtually all cultures and religions, not least the Western history of art, including in Dutch still-life painting and the vanitas painting genre of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries which served as a reminder of the transience of life. To draw out and contextualise these resonances, this monumental work has been placed within the historical collection galleries of NGV International.
Inspired by the complex biological structure of the human skull – which the artist considers beautiful and extraordinary – Ron Mueck’s new work Mass, 2016–17, celebrates a form that links us as a species.
Mass is also a sombre study of mortality, and comprising 100 individual human skulls it calls to mind iconic images of massed remains in the Paris catacombs as well as the documentation of contemporary human atrocities in Cambodia, Rwanda, Srebrenica and Iraq.
The skull has been a potent symbol within the art of virtually all cultures and religions, not least the Western history of art, including in Dutch still-life painting and the vanitas painting genre of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries which served as a reminder of the transience of life. To draw out and contextualise these resonances, this monumental work has been placed within the historical collection galleries of NGV International.
![Ivo Precek, Pracovní tabule II [Work table II], 1965. "From the center of Europe. Czech photography, 1912-1974". Image courtesy of Juan March Foundation](/sites/default/files/styles/mopis_home_news_category_slider_desktop/public/lead-images/metalocus_fundacionjuanmarch_fotografiacheca_precek-.-pracovni-tabule-ii-1965_p01.webp?h=e382d23c&itok=PryOojGF "Ivo Precek, Pracovní tabule II [Work table II], 1965. \"From the center of Europe. Czech photography, 1912-1974\". Image courtesy of Juan March Foundation")
