Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 10 : Record of press coverage, March 1982 - May 1984

The National Times 20-26 May 19 83 , r The Courier-Mail 23 May 1983 ·*** TH£ CHINESE Warriors, of course, arc drawing huge crowds, but visitors to the Queensland Art Gallery might spare some time to visit the by no means spectacular, but sen– sitive German Drawings - an exhibition organised by the Federal Republic of Germany with the sponsorship of Lufthansa. The 125 drawings, by 43 art• ists during the decade up to I?82, arc a cross-section con– sidered as representative by Christoph Brockhaus of the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, who was the selector. (Cologne and Dusscldorf arc the main centres of German Contemporary art-life). The various directions arc di– vided ir.to sections to allow a coherent overview. One notices a strong survival of System Structures, Mack, Kovasc, Mohr, Eber and Rune Mields's meditative ornamental fields reminiscent of Islamic pat•~rns: Minimalism, as won– derfully sensitive as Karl Bohrm11nn's "Sea Pieces", and the Sculptors drawings of Hauser and Freimann. There were drawings for H. Voth 's imagination-eapturing project "Trip to the Sea", which evokes ancient burial rites. There is a group of drawings concerned with inward-turning' self-surch, where conflicting tensions arc held in taut bal• ance; Kauke's "Formalisation of Boredom" and the drawings of Schmettau, Knaupp. Gilles, F11lkcn, Hockcmannn ahd Hit– zler. The latest vogues of Nco-Ex• prcssionism and concern with archai.: symbols and styles can be seen in works by some of the aforc-n,cntioncd, and Baselitz and Ktmcnski on the other hand. :1nd Tanner! and Penck on the ,,1 her. LC$S interestingly I find the c.onvcnlional drawing-style. used t,, s11mc of the New Real– ists o:\~~crncd with social is– sues. Bul then, they, too, have something 10 say. .. • . DR GERTR\JDE LANGER i. ., / ·•·