Hamilton Gallery | until 14 April 2024
We’re delighted to be partnering with Hamilton Gallery in Western Victoria as part of their major exhibition; Emerging From Darkness, Faith, Emotion and the Body in the Baroque, which runs to 14 April 2024.
This internationally significant exhibition features world-renowned baroque masters including Artemisia Gentileschi, Lavinia Fontana and Sofonisba Anguissola, and contemporary artists working in the Baroque style. Showcasing rare, historically important works, Emerging From Darkness is an unprecedented first for Hamilton Gallery and regional Australia.
Drawn from partnerships with and loans from the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Gallery of Australia and private lenders across the country, the exhibition brings together powerful, emotive and unapologetic works that changed the course of art at the beginning of the 17th Century. Read more about the Emerging from Darkness exhibition.
As the finale to the exhibition and associated series of events, the Australian Chamber Choir will present a one-off performance of Agatha in Vivaldi’s Venice. Born without the fingers of her left hand, Agatha was given up shortly after her birth in 1712 to the Venetian orphanage known as the Ospedale della Pietà. Educated in the music school that was made famous by Antonio Vivaldi, Agatha’s career as a singer and singing teacher is well documented. But her compositions have remained hidden in a Venetian library for 300 years and are only now emerging from the darkness. Agatha’s Cantata, Ecce nunc is performed with choir, soloists and an orchestra of period instruments, alongside Vivaldi’s Magnificat. Read more about Agatha in Vivaldi’s Venice