While visiting a rainy Brissy I thought I'd take the opportunity to visit the Gallery of Modern Art (aka GoMA)to check out the current exhibition 21st Century: Art in the First Decade.
I tell you if you have a spare couple of hours if you happen to visit the QLD capital it's well worth your while swinging by. The exhibition is one of the most amazing I've ever seen with some extremely impressive works. It's kid friendly with lots of activities for all ages, and best of all it's free!
The collection is broad with pieces gathered from all over the globe. They are beautiful, mind boggling, reflective, fun and interactive.
My standouts include:
- Celeste Boursier - Mougenot's From here to ear which includes real finches!
- Olafur Eliasson's The cubic structural evolution project, I managed to catch this one at the MCA in Sydney but it's still fun to play with white lego while surrounded by impressive structures
- Leando Erlich's Swimming Pool, you figure this one out!
- Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaina's Lightning for Neda. A beautiful and intricate piece
- Damien Hirst, For the love of God, laugh. Wow!
- Carsten Holler's Left/Right Slide, a fun alternative to the lifts and stairs. Fun? Who thought a gallery could be fun!
- Bharti Kher's The skin speaks a language not its own
- Yayoi Kusama's Soul under the Moon. Another amazing piece in which you walk into a black cube and you truly feel like you're in space.
Hopefully this bite size of the collection has given you a taste to check it out! It's on till April 2011.
In conjunction with the exhibition are screenings of sci - fi films from over the last century. A retrospective on our various imaginings of the future (utopian and dystopian). Here's the link for all you cinefiles out there
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