A New Universe—Architecture in Print

Drawing from the Colin Holden Print Collection and the Geelong Gallery Collection, this exhibition brings together works that explore architectural subject matter through the print medium. The exhibition is anchored in the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), whose architectural subjects—from ancient ruins to intricate, urban labyrinths—are known for expanding the limits of spatial illusion, perspective, and artistic imagination.

Prints by Piranesi and his contemporaries are brought into dialogue with contemporary works that demonstrate how artists throughout history have revisited the architectural subject as an imaginative exercise; to evoke memory, emotional resonance, inspiration and invention.

A Geelong Gallery exhibition