Some bits and pieces from two exhibitions on level 3: "Common ground", made up of selections from the permanent collection (art, design, fashion etc) organised around the themes of 'urbanism', 'nature', 'time', 'masculinity' and 'anthropomorphism; and "Shut up and paint", which ranged across a wide range of types of contemporary painting including quite a few newishly acquired pieces.
Michael Parekowhai - "Rainbow Servant Dreaming" (2005). Nice Magritte reference - five painted figures mounted on a wall:
Sarah Ryan - "What to give and take" (2011). A lenticular photograph - digitally spliced images that then appear to move depending on the viewer's perspective:
A couple of Scott Redford 'urinals' (2000), glistening jewel-like, including one from Surfers Paradise:
Matti Braun - "Untitled" (2015). Coloured dyes on silk, the shades of pink differentiating and deepening with time and immersion. And, in conversation with the Braun and similarly large scale: Helen Frankenthaler - "Cape, (Provincetown)" (1964); I've seen this one before but was struck by it anew today.
And, in a different vein, a pleasingly phenomenological piece - a much more modestly sized and presented watercolour and wash: Gunter Christmann - "The streets of Darlo (Woman sitting on steps)" (1994):
Michael Parekowhai - "Rainbow Servant Dreaming" (2005). Nice Magritte reference - five painted figures mounted on a wall:
Sarah Ryan - "What to give and take" (2011). A lenticular photograph - digitally spliced images that then appear to move depending on the viewer's perspective:
A couple of Scott Redford 'urinals' (2000), glistening jewel-like, including one from Surfers Paradise:
Matti Braun - "Untitled" (2015). Coloured dyes on silk, the shades of pink differentiating and deepening with time and immersion. And, in conversation with the Braun and similarly large scale: Helen Frankenthaler - "Cape, (Provincetown)" (1964); I've seen this one before but was struck by it anew today.
And, in a different vein, a pleasingly phenomenological piece - a much more modestly sized and presented watercolour and wash: Gunter Christmann - "The streets of Darlo (Woman sitting on steps)" (1994):
