▶ ROBERT BOYNES IN 'THE FUTILE CITY' AT HEIDE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

Robert Boynes' work will be included in the following exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art.  The exhibition has been co-curated by Lesley Harding and Jason Smith.

Robert Boynes, 'Chinatown + Spencer Street, Night' 2003, acrylic on canvas - triptych, 120 x 320cm

The Futile City
Heide Museum of Modern Art
25 June – 9 October 2011

'The Futile City' is inspired by Albert Tucker’s 1940 painting of the same title in Heide’s Collection. The exhibition juxtaposes images of the city painted by Tucker over his lifetime with those by several contemporary artists for whom the city and its structures provide rich and complex visual and thematic material.  'The Futile City' critically examines the rise of the city and the expansion of its limits from the modern era to the present day, and its conditioning power over individuals and communities. Works by Tucker will be displayed alongside iconic paintings by Jeffrey Smart, Robert Boynes, Susan Norrie, Louise Forthun, David Jolly and Richard Giblett.