Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 8 : Pressclippings, 1977-1981

- THE COURlltR-MAIL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1979 1. ~®t • THIS J1p1ne1e C~lour WOOdcut WIii be IHtured In the Queen1l1nd Art Galle '• travelllng exhibition, 'Printmaking 'Y_. Relltl Ind lnt1gllo Method•'· 'Woman Caught In I Shower of Rain' WII the Work of Kitagawa Utamaro(1753-1IOI). :ABOVE: Jet vtsltor to Queensland Ar 1i Gallery this week, Francesca Thyssen– Bomemtsza, saw the current display of portraits 1rom the collection of Lady Trout. Fresh from an art course In Britain, 1 she Is visiting Queensland with her , father Swiss industrialist Hans Heinrich Thyssen– Bornemlsza, a n d ,. brother Hein!, THE GLADSTONE OBS On the Scene Prints on the 'Printmaking _ Relief and Intaglio Methods' la the first of a aeries of travelling exhibit!• ona drawn from the Queensland Art Gallery's per- manent collection. The exhibition contains 28 works and is •P«ially desianed for tourina Ccnrral, Northern, and Inland Queensland. 11 is rhe Galltry's in– lemion 10 send our such e•h!bilions on a r~gular basis for prcsen1a11 1 m fn various cen1rcs 1hrougbour lhe S1a1e so 1ha1 people who do nor normally have access lo the Gallery may have the chance to see works from !heir coilecrion. This type of service will be ruuy expanded when lhe new Queensland Arr Gallery is bull1 and opcralfonal. The selection of works on dls~iay covers a ran,e of subJectt and techniques artists and pcrlods of lime. ' TIit t1.l.ldo • ft • lllffll ortalNI prt • u •- eiclllap by •• ,.._ • IHI •..W • 111su u Dam, ._. •ru111, T • raer, LiN11 u • -,11111uo,11 • •. road which apl&ja lhe .diffettnt fl'IPhlc art P,Cl!;lllla of the an works clilpla)'ed, 'Printmatln, - Reller and lnla&lio Methods' wUI be on the road throushout Quectuland ror two yean, Baroll's art collection on Aust tour SWISS Industrialist and art collector Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen– Bornemlsza has on– ly one Investment in Australia - In a Merino stud at War– ren, NSW. Speaking In Brisbone recently, the baron said that he had shares in Egelabra Merino Stud. The stud run by friends, the katers, car– ries 30,000 sheep on 00,000 hectares. The baron's visit was to promote the Aus– tralian tour of the ex– hibition America and Europe - A Century of Modern Masters, from the Thyssen -Borne – mlsza collection. The baron hos one of the largest private art collections in the world - almost 1000 pieces, housed In his Villa Favorito, near Lugano, Switzerland. The exhibition opened In Perth on October 3 to coincide with the open• Ing of the new Art '1allery of Western Aus– l, nlio ond the 150th on– nl versary celebrations of thot Stole. The exhibition, con– s·~ting of 108 paintings, Includes the works of the French Im– pressionists ond Germon expressionists and u representative selection of cubism, surrealism and the abstru~l. Tht baron, who start– ed his modern urt col- . lection 15 years ago, said one of his fovorlte periods wus the ltaliun Renaissance. The boron's father, the first Buron Thyssen-Bornemiszu, collected paintings from the 18th ,century. The collection, known as the Old Musters, Is open to the public al the Baron's villa in sum– mer. Each year more thun 20.000 visitors in– spect il. **** The boron visited the Qucenslund Art· Gulleq1, which will dis• ploy hts collection from next February 12 to Murch 30. He suid this wus his third visit to Australiu in to yours, und he was pleased to see the amount or cultural de– velopment thut had taken place. He fell Austruliu was a go uhead country und a profitable J>luce to In• vest in. "The only thing wrong with 1\ustrulia Is lhal your populut.ion isn't growing enough, 11 laughed the Buron. His collection is the first ol ils kind - u THE Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza and his daughter. Francesca. pictured in Brisbane recently. selection ol the world's rurcsl und richest col• lection - to be shown in t\nslruliu . Art gallery uuthol'ilics hove report• eel lhc value ol the Aus• lrnliun exhibition a lone ,rn S20 million. (Juccnslandct's will be uble to sec the baron's co llect io n at lhc Quecnsluntl Art C:allory on the 111th lloor of lhe MI M Building . Ann St reel, Brisbane. ACCOMPANYING Baron Thyssen– Bornemlsz on his Australian tour was his daughter Fran· cesca. Fruncescu, 21 . hn s just completed studies 111 the history ol mnti,•rn art ut the Institute of Contemporary Art in London. Like mus t youn g adults lresh out of col• legc, Fruntc~ca is fnl.'· ing lhe dilemma of ,,,t,at 10 clo nnw. " I' ve thought uhout lashion design and in• tcrior dccoruling, but would also like to cum my li vinH as u portniit painter.' suld Frun• ccscu. " I'll 11roba bly try them nil." Al the moment she is selling up a smu li studio In u w:1rchom;c room In London. wlwrti she will experiment on friends, doing portraits. If it turns out suc– cessfully she will start lo lake commission work, but doesn't en– visage this happening for at least 12 months. Francesco will take a new approach to porlruit pointing by us– ing the multi-media technique, not just oils anti cunvas. By using multi-media techniques, she said, the artist would, for ex– ample. combine photo– gt'aphy and oils. Francesca suicl : "I don't consider photo– gruphy an nrt In itself. yon must do something with it. " I do a lol of photo– graphy myself. hut am very critica l of my work . I like to do chara cter studies and t.ry to bring out personalities, nol just snap lhe person." F'rancest•tt ha s always been interested in art and began paint• ing as u child. **** She ha s acmmpunied her father on se,·cral art trips. hut has little say in what her father huys. " I think I muy have influ,mccd him in buy– ing one ol the Knn– tlinsky paintings in his co ile c t1on . but only bl!cause I nagged so much... laugheil Frnn• t(•sca . Franrcs,·u's Ille docs nol r t• vo lv c sole l y around art. although art plays a hig 1•url. She also lo lows in h1•1· mother's footsteps hy doin~ some purl– tim,• rnorlclling. Iler mother. Fiona 'umphell Waller. wus u well known London model during lhc GOs. F'rartl't 1 sc·u suid front what she had seen it ap pcured that the fashions m Australia were what they had hud during the English summer. "I love lhe fashions oul now with all the bright eolors," said Francesca, "us you cun loll". She was wearing a bright purple shirt, green skirt, with a leather belt, and purple shoes. The outfit looked quite stunning and cf– rective. **** Since taking up modelling two years ugo Francesca ha ; become a vcgctariun. " ll helps me keep mr weight down," she sai< . "And lruit und vegetables arc eusy to digest anti very light in the slomurh." "My next love is ski– ing," suid Francesca, "But I keep brc:iklng my legs!" So fur she has broken her legs four limes. but refuses to gi vc up. Anoth er lu vo rit e pastime is rock 'n roll ,·onccrls. " I don't like the new disco scene. but love ii ve rock 'n roll con– certs." she said. On Australia, Fran– cese:, suid: "I really huven't hutl any time lo look uround. hut lrom whal I've seen each . Stole seems different from the next. "I loved visiting the Merino stud my father has shares In. She sold she loved the country, und the people were marvellous. During her stuy she saw kangaroos for the first time and wanted to ride a horse. but they didn't have one suita– ble. Besides, her father didn't wunl to risk her breaking a leg for the fifth time while in Aus– tralia . "I'd love to come back und spend more lime here.'' sold Fran– cesco. " I will try to one dny, but once you gel back home to London, Austrulln seems so fur away that you lend to pul it off."