Over the past few days we have experienced the rise of temperature. So, we decided to take shelter at the coolest and most inspiring place in the city!!! Much deserved quality time together.
Politically motivated art gets an airing in GOMA exhibition Propaganda? The exhibition shifts from the most widely accepted definition of propaganda, which is that associated with totalitarian regimes – in this case the Socialist Realist-derived art of North Korea and cultural revolution-era China – to more contemporary takes on the idea. Work featured comes from artists such as the Luo Brothers, who show connections between traditional communist propaganda and the advertising culture of contemporary China, and Tuan Andrew Nguyen, who shows cola ads, communist posters and wild-style graffiti jostling for attention in the streets of Vietnam.
You could argue that propaganda is as old as language itself, particularly when words or images are associated with communicating the value of one form of social organisation or another.
National New Media Art Award 2012. The Award and exhibition showcase the work of leading Australian new media artists. The award-winning work will be acquired for the Queensland Art Gallery Collection.
Petra Gemeinboeck & Rob Saunders
Ross Manning
Leah Heiss
Robin Fox
Karen Casey
Paraphrasing Jason Silva's "I find inspiration to be the ultimate antidote to existential angst". Hopefully this short article will inspire the readers as much as the visit to the Arts inspired us.
Menlibayeva ‘Wrapping History’ 2010
Almagul Menlibayeva’s photography reflects on history, memory and landscape. Employing an aesthetic she calls ‘Romantic Punk Shamanism’, Menlibayeva delineates an imagined pre-Soviet, pre-Islamic realm incorporating a shamanistic freedom of the human body.
‘Flowers that Bloom at Midnight’ is a series of sculptures, each with its own exuberant colour scheme, on which Yayoi Kusama has been working since 2009.
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