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

[ ' ( ... ' ' i \ ... ,; ' ~- I) .. >-, ~- t ~ • " i • r .. ( t 2 - THE COURIER-MAIL THE EXHfflITION seal - which reads "Chinese palntlnr of the MJnr and Qlnr Dynasties". Fireworks greet art !~U A SPECTAC'TILAR riverside fireworks dis– play on Monday night wlll welcome the unique Chinese art exhibition, "Treasures of the Forbidden City" to the Queensland Art Gallery. The display wlll be located on the south bank of the Brisbane Rh-er near the new gallery, sched– uled to open next March. It will be Internally llt to provide a backdrop for the 15-mlnute display at 8.30 p.m. Best vantage points for the display should be from North Quay, near the new Supreme Court buildings, or from Victoria Bridge. Queensland Art Gallery director (Mr Raoul Mell!sh) said fireworks were a traditional Chinese symbol of good luck, and were designed to chase away evil spirits. Monday n!ght·s display would rep– resent a people's wel~me to the exhibition of rare Chinese scrolls, The $50 million exhibition of Chinese art from the Ming and Qlng dynasties will open to the public In the existing Queensland Art.Gallery, In the MIM Building In Ann Street, on Tuesday. The paintings hal'e never been seen before out– side Chinn. Director ol the NSW Art Gallery, Mr Edmund Capon, a specialist on Oriental nrt,, will give a free public lecture about the exhlb!ton at 12.30 p.111. on Tuesday, In Wesley House, next door to the MIM bulldlng. Viewing hours wlll \,e 10 n.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday, with nn extension to 9 p.m. on Fridays, Sunday hours will be 2 p.m. lo 5 p.n, Ticket sales w!!I cease hnlf-an-hour before closing times. Admission prices for the exhibition wm be 53 adults, and S2 children and uonces Ions. with family tickets !or two adults and up to five chlidren, or one adult end up to slK children, $9.90. The exhibition will run until Jui)' 19, ns the last mnJor exhlb!ton aL the tcm1>0rnry gnllery. " ,. ,. ' "- FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1981 World art at opening (See pre,1- Pllt) QuEENSLAND Art Gallery is conclud– ing negotiations for a major 5eries or exhibitions for the opening of the new Art Gallery next March and for the period of the Commonwealth Games in October next year. Gallery director Mr Raoul Mellish said the Peter Stuyve,ant Foundation would loan five great tapestrie1 by the ramous French artist Jean Lurcat. These arc some of the tapestries displayed in St John's Cathedral in the early Seventies when the Queensland Art Gallery was clOled. The Stuyveunt Foundation would also sponsor a major exhibition by Kandinsky, one of the great abstract painters. from the ·GuHcnhcim Collection in New York. Another exhibition would be of Renaissance .bronze sculptures toacthcr with related drawings and engravina• from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Alhmolean Museum in Oxford. Another would be an uhibition, "Town, Country, Shore and Sea", tracina development of English watercolor paintin1 from Sir Anthony Van Dyck up to contemporary times from the Fitzwilli1m Museum in Cambridge. Mr Mellish said that one of the most important exhibitions for the opening would be the Tokugawa Exhibition of Japanese art from one of the greatest private collections in Japan, belonging to the Tokugawa family. It will be sponsored by MIM and CRA. Mc said that during the Commonwealth G a mes the-aim would be to display some of the best Au,trali•n art and craftsman1hip. The Australian Gallery Directors Council will present Aborisinal Australia, a major exhibition or Aboriginal paintinas, artifacts and totemic carvings. The Queensland Art Gallery, asgisted by the Crafts Board of ·the Australia Council, is conducting a survey of contemporary craft for. a display during the Games. Mr Mellish said: "We arc also trying to organise o_ther special exhibitions for the Games. includins an exhibition of tapestries from the. Victorian Tapestries Workshop. ••There may also be important exhibitions in conjunction with the International Cultural Corporation." i t 1 t 1 ., . ~