Above: Joan Miró | Silence
If you have been under a rock the last few years - you won’t know that GOMA is is Queensland’s premier visual arts institution and a leading art museum nationally. The Gallery’s driving philosophy is to connect art and people (which is acheived just beautifully) I am so proud to have this fabulous gallery part of my home city! Recently returning from visit to Paris I was pleasantly surprised to have part of the city follow me back to Brisbane! ’Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams’ includes more than 180 paintings, sculptures, photographs and works on paper and films by 54 artists and have travelled to GOMA directly from the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris!
The Musée national d’art moderne, housed in Paris’s iconic Centre Pompidou, is one of the world’s best museum collections of modern and contemporary art. Its Surrealism collections are the finest in Europe — and the core of this collection is now living in GoMA.! This exhibition presents more than 180 works by 56 artists, including paintings, sculptures, ‘surrealist objects’, films, photographs, drawings and collages. ‘Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams’ is an opportunity to see important art works that rarely leave Paris, in an exhibition that will provide a fascinating and comprehensive overview of this important artistic movement. (some hightlights below!)
Above: Jackson Pollock | The Moon-Woman cuts the circle
Above: Salvador Dalí | Hallucination partielle. Six images de Lénine sur un piano (Partial hallucination: six images of Lenin on the piano)
Above right: Dorothea Tanning | Chambre 202, Hôtel du Pavot (Room 202, Hôtel du Pavot)
Above: Victor Brauner | Loup-table (Wolf-table) 1939, 1947
Above right: Man Ray | Oeuvres de Giacometti: Femme tenant l’objet désagréable (Works by Giacometti: Model holding a disagreeable object)
Film and photography are also represented throughout the exhibition, including films by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, René Clair and Man Ray. Important photographic works by Hans Bellmer, Brassaï, Claude Cahun, Dora Maar, Eli Lotar and Jacques-André Boiffard also feature. The exhibition is rounded out with late works that show the breadth of Surrealism’s influence, and includes major works by Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky and Joseph Cornell.
‘Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams’ will be accompanied by an innovative Children’s Art Centre program, an exciting range of public programs, including talks, discussions and performances, and a full-colour exhibition catalogue. The popular Up Late program will return on Friday nights from July, as well as an amazing film program at the Gallery’s Australian Cinémathèque.
DID YOU KNOW! GOMA also offers Surrealism High Tea? Take the visual feast that is Surrealism to a different level and indulge in a Surrealism High Tea. $35 per person, including glass of champagne and tea/coffee. Sittings: 10am & 2.30pm daily. Bookings essential, telephone (07) 3842 9916
Grab your tickets online > http://qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current/surrealism_the_poetry_of_dreams/tickets_and_packages
Check out some fave behind the scene shots I came across on the GOMA Facebook page! View the entire gallery online here > https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150197778771716.301532.42483226715&l=bddfae172c
Like GoMA on Facebook too! >https://www.facebook.com/pages/Queensland-Art-GalleryGallery-of-Modern-Art/42483226715?sk=wall
Behind the scenes!
Don’t miss this exhibition. Im so excited to visit the exhibition this weekend!
Something I should know about? email me! > web@queenslandhomes.com.au
Joanne Thies - QH online
