Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Veduta del Tempio della Sibilla in Tivoli from the series Vedute di Roma 1760– 78, etching and engraving; state i/v, Colin Holden Charitable Trust
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Veduta del Tempio della Sibilla in Tivoli from the series Vedute di Roma 1760– 78, etching and engraving; state i/v, Colin Holden Charitable Trust
A New Universe—Architecture in Print
28 February 2026 to 31 May 2026
- Free entry
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
