An exhibition of lavish interior spaces featuring more than 70 historical and contemporary works selected from the Queensland Art Gallery and Queensland Museum collections by artist Michael Zavros is showing at the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG).
Zavros has selected an eclectic range of furniture, sculpture, painting, taxidermy, photography, ceramics and textiles to create the densely opulent series of spaces comprising the exhibition. Emulating the elegant homes featured in high-end interior design magazines, the exhibition comprises seven themed interior spaces including figuration, still life, abstraction and the colour white – which includes a Patricia Piccinini sculpture from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection and a full-size taxidermied polar bear on loan from the Queensland Museum.
The still life space includes paintings by Eric Wilson, A.M.E Bale and Arthur Murch, along with furniture by Schulim Krimper and LJ Harvey, Persian floor rugs and contemporary art works by Ai Weiwei and Marc Quinn. The room focused on abstraction includes works by Willem de Kooning, Bridget Riley and English collective Art & Language. Suspended in the centre of the exhibition is an elaborate 18th century French chandelier which was recently gifted to the QAGOMA Collection.
QAGOMA
Until June 23, 2013
QLD
Image
Gemma Smith, Boulder Prototype #2, 2008, laser cut perspex, ed. of 22
