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

The Sunday Mall· NOVEMBER 30, 1980 T~HIIIIE RTS I REVIEWED BY FREDERIC ROGERS 'O ' ·P show invites you to take part NOW for 1omethi119 entirely different - op art In ·It, ultimate development haa corn, to lrl1bane. The l'olA!r Stuyvesnnt Cu It u r a I Foundation's la!Alst contribution to the widening or public ap– preciation or the arts ts an exhibition or the work or Yaaoov Agam, For the next three weeka, the Queensland Art Gallery 060 Ann Street, 8th Floor), where the 24 colorru1, complex and eventually exciting pl~ces are showing, la as likely to be a forum for lnlA!n.&e dtscusaton as a sanctuary !or abaorbed wonder. .Although ha does not 10 claim, Agam, tn his preoccupation with giv– ln1 "plastic and artlstlo expreuton to the ancient Hebrew concept or real– ity,•• eme~• aa some– thing or a mystic. He aays he Is not an abstract artist. That ls a statement sulllctent to start discussion nmong viewers on the meaning o! the !Alrm but even half-hour's acquatntnnce with the magnetic dis• piny endorses 11•. Op art ls Illusion. 'rhe artist stands In much the same relatlonshtp to his viewers as does the stage magician to his audience. But while the magician • presents his Illusions and defies the audience to see through • them, the op artist invites his viewers not only to spot the lllu– •lon but to participate in tt. Vlettors to the exhlbl· tlon wm discover this by walking through the gal– lery without taking more than a superficial glance at the work. They wlll find pletes changing not only the 2 ·- · THE COURIER-MAIL C•.• ; ' •. colora hut the form in the twinkling or o•n eye. 'r h e lnrge (152 x 200 01111 "Depths or The Sea," within the space o! hair a dozen 11nccs, wlll Jrn ve presented !ll'e wholly dlClercnt Images. Yet this extremely clerer nnd exquisitely 'created work ls merely a menns to an end. Pre– cl51!IY whnt the artlst ls saying Is more dl!llcult to grasp. It ss not enough to ac– cept that he Is col)cerncd with the lnter-relatlon– shlp of time and reallty - thnt Is self-evident In the "moving pictures," * * * 'rhe oerlous 1•Jewer w111 have rood for much sub– sequent thought on the mutter. If, •• Is said, art mir– rors the spirit or lta time, there Is abroad today a ,,ery strong sense of con• •ervo I.Ion or preservation of natural resource&. From rl, ht, left and centre they come - the ohows cunccrnod with flora, and fauna, much of which ls In ••rions dan• ger of extinction through man's cnrelessncss and greed. Most recentll', Ellta• beth McDonald has at t he Mclnnes Galleries t8B Edward Street) more t han 50 •tuJles of "Wild· !lowers of the Wallum" - the originals from which plates have been made !or n book o, that title relea•ed at the same time as the exhibition. The work hL1 been not only a labor or love !or the artist but I• a faith– ful and sensitive record.. Ing or the surprlsln1ly numerous wild !lowers !oun< ham country. ... I ~ ,... ._ ,. ~- ..... .,.,_, ..,, l THE Fogglnl bronze of F..erculc,· and 0mph ale, acquired by the trustee~ of the Queens– land Arl, Gallery with a donation to the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation by MIM Holdings Ltd. It wll\ be on public display In t he gallery from today, ·' ' Sculptur~ of I hY Foggini joi / art gallery tre J,,:• THE Queensland Art Gallery last night unveiled Its latest purchase - a bronze sculpture almost 300 years old. Giovanni Pogrlnl's sculpture Hercules and Ompbale, hu been acquired by the gallery with tunds donated bJ Mm Holdlnaa Ltd throUlh the Queenllar.id Art Gallery 1''ouncta.tlon, Fogglnl (1852•1725) was bOm In Jl'lorence and hla work was sreatly Influenced by BemlnL His moat famous worlcl are the 1C11lpturea of the Corsini Chapel In the Church of the carmine In Florence, Thl8 worlr, SI cm :ii: 35 lt' 19,3 cm was unvelled at • function held lu~ nl1bt to celebrate the flrsL anntve111ary of the Queensland Art Gallery l'oUndatlon. Tbe reception was held 1n the audltorlum•rwt&urant area or the new art 1atlery belnS built on the 1011th bant of the Brtaoanc River. Poundatlon president Sir Oeorp l"lsher iald more than $2 million had been ralaed, ln– cludln1 aubaldy, towards the roundatlon'a tarset of *' million for the purchase or new worka for the 1allery, to open In 1981. Bir George appealed for more publlo auppcrt ror the Founda– tion to reach the tarpt amounL by the time the new gallery was conpleted Jn June.