Artiste : Georges Tjungurrayi

Titre de l'œuvre : Claypan site Mamultjulkulnga - Tingari stories

Format : 122 x 61 cm

Provenance : centre d'art aborigène de Papunya Tula

Le certificat original du centre d'art Aborigène de Papunya Tula sera remis avec l'œuvre.

Référence de cette peinture aborigene : GT2008037

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George Tjungurrayi (1943) was born in the desert in at Kiwirrkura and is the younger brother of Naata Nungurrayi. George walked into Papunya with another young man along a freshly graded road, after living at Mukula, west of Kiwirrkura. He commenced painting for Papunya Tula Artists in the early 1980’s. “ George Tjungurrayi paints in his own adaptation of the Tingari style. Deceptively delicate lines of loosely-joined dots create networks or webs over the entire surface of the canvas. This gives his paintings a distinct energy. Multi-layered representations of country such as this painting reflect the central concerns of the Papunya Tula artists”. (AGNSW)

Mamultjulkulnga is of great importance to the artist as his father passed away at this site. After rain this claypan becomes a large shallow freshwater lake, which provides ideal conditions for the prolific growth of the small fleshy sub-shrub Tecticornia verrucosa, k.nown in Pintupi as Mungilypa. In ancestral times two Tingari Men oftbe Tjungurrayi and Tjapaltjarri kinship subsections camped at this site and gathered mungilypa. The seeds from this plant are ground into a paste whicb is then cooked in the coals to form a type of unleavened bread.

The Tingari are a group of ancestral beings of the Dreaming who travelled over vast stretches of the country, performing rituals and creating and shaping particular sites. The Tingari men were usually followed by Tingari women and were accompanied by novices, and their travels and adventures are enshrined in a number of song cycles. These ancestral stories form part of the teachings of the post initiatory youths today as well as providing explanations for contemporary customs.

Collections : Groninger Museum, The Netherlands. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Art Gallery of New South Wales. National Gallery of Australia. Seattle Art Museum, USA...