COMING SOON: LIFE/LIFE BY CHOI JEONG HWA
Posted in Current, Exhibitions, Future on January 16th, 2012 by predrag – Be the first to comment
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COMING SOON: LIFE/LIFE BY CHOI JEONG HWA
A busy week at Gallery Central preparing for Choi Jeong Hwa's series of installations for PIAF 2012. Winthrop Hall, UWA 10 Feb - 3 March, all day Stirling Gardens Cnr of Barrack St and St Georges Tce, Perth 10 Feb - 3 March, all day Gallery Central 10 Feb - 10 March, Mon-Fri 10am-4.45pm; Sat 2-4.45pm Choi Jeong Hwa Fruits, flowers 2011P.I.A.F. exhibition 10 FEBRUARY – 10 MARCH Internationally renowned South Korean contemporary artist and designer Choi Jeong Hwa creates art that celebrates the peculiar beauty of synthetic materials and everyday objects while provoking reflections upon both consumption and harmony in our modern lives. Choi’s ephemeral installation of more ...
Coming soon to Gallery Central
SIXTH SENSE Contemporary Photography in Western Australia 17 MARCH – 5 APRIL Curated by Paola Anselmi and Rebecca Dagnall for FotoFreo 2012, this exhibition shows recent work by six outstanding photographers from WA - Patrick Brown, Eva Fernandez, Mike Gray, Kate McMillan, Flavia Schuster, Juha Tolonen Mon to Fri 10-4.45 and Sat 2-4.45 RENOVATE BY LYLE BRANSON - FOTOFREO FRINGE 17 MARCH – 5 APRIL Renovate is a exhibition of photographs that look at the colonising of the Swan River coastal plain, which involves cultivating the landscape with exotic plants and manipulating the native flora and its meaning. Thur-Fri 2-7pm, Sat 12-4pm Lyle Branson Untitled, 2011; digital print, 48x32 ...
THE ART of PERSUASION – Vietnamese Propaganda Posters
Posted in Exhibitions, Past on July 22nd, 2011 by predrag – 1 Comment
24 August – 3 September
Call it what you will – visual rhetoric, socialist realism, dogma – this vibrant exhibition of Vietnamese propaganda art at Central’s Institute of Technology’s Showcase Gallery, spans ‘the golden age of the Vietnamese revolutionary poster’, from the mid1960s through to the 1980s. These were decades of great economic hardship for its people as they fought under Ho Chi Minh and his VCP for political reunification with the South; a split (17th parallel) ratified by the Geneva Agreements of 1954 after French occupation.
The exhibition spans the American war of 1965 -73: fall of the southern government in 1975: war with China (1979) and famine well into the 1980s; plus Vietnam’s occupation of Cambodia (1978 -1989) and finally the revolution of Doi Moi in 1986 when Vietnam opened its doors to the world and introduced a market economy. The rallying patriotism of propaganda posters incited pride and gave vent to hope and determination for the country’s citizenry.
These works were produced by artists who, on leaving the military, continued their careers as ‘national art workers’ at the Ministry of Information, where there was no freedom of expression but rather the directive to produce works on patriotic themes. The ravages of war and famine ensured limited resources so posters were simply copied from the originals or were a product of monotone offset printing with the colours added by hand. Often they were reproduced in national print runs. Tempera (pigment mixed with emulsion) was the medium used to paint.
The exhibition runs daily from the 24 of August until 3 September 2011, from 11am – 4.45pm.
Closed Sunday.