Friday, July 3, 2009

Greg Neville's exhibition

Went to see Greg's exhibition. The Dissolving Man.
A powerful and moving examination of masculinity and introspection. Displayed on three large screens were excepts from a wide range of movies. The images showed head shots of men considering, thinking, in their own worlds. The effect was engrossing and engaging.

Accompanying the 3 channel video was a display of photographs of action hero toys, distorted/posed so as to appear to me vulnerable rather than invincible.
These large prints were quite confronting - and again, very powerful.
So pleased to have gone to this

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Dora Mytych

Dora Mytych's drawings were at the University of Queensland


Sunday, June 28, 2009

The China Project

Where to start?
the China Project at the Brisbane GOMA was all that I had hoped, and more.
The range of exciting and eclectic work was stimulating and inspirational.
The work spanned quite a period of time, reflecting different movements in Chinese modern art according to the political and cultural conditions.
My favourites were by Xu Bing A book from the sky
and a series of busts by Ah XianChina China

to see it all.