Artiste : Charlie Tjapangati

Titre de l'œuvre : Rockhole site of Tjiparitjarra - Tingari sacred story

Format : 91 x 91 cm

Provenance : centre d'art de Papunya Tula

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

Référence de cette peinture : CT2010004

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Explications sur cette œuvre et l’artiste :

Charlie Tjapangati (1949) commenced painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1977, after having observed the older men painting while living in West Camp, Papunya. Stories from the Tingari cycle were the usual subject of his paintings, including the monumental canvas now in the collection of the National Museum of Australia, which was shown in Australian Perspecta 81 at the Art Gallery of NSW, one of the first institutional acts of acknowledgement of Papunya Tula paintings by the Australian contemporary art world. (Vivien Johnson, 2008).

This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Tjiparitjarra, near rock:y outcrops and a large sandhill west of Jupiter Weil in Western Australia. ln ancestral times a large group of Tingari men visited this site before travelling east, passing through IGwirrkura, and then north-east to Tarkul and Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay). The lines in this work represent the nearby tali (sandhills). Since events associated with the Tingari Cycle are of a secret nature no further detail was given. Generally, 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 staries form part of the teachings of the post initiatory youths today as well as providing explanations for contemporary customs.

In 2000 Charlie travelled to Sydney with a group of four men from Kiwirrkurra to make a ground painting at the Art Gallery of New South Wales for the opening of Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius.

This painting evokes the rockole site of Manakurranya and the associated secret Tingari stories

Collections : National Gallery of Australia. the University of Virginia, USA. the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory. Private collections in Europe and Australia...