The Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), located in Brisbane, Australia, is Queensland’s premier visual arts institution and a leading art museum nationally. The Gallery’s driving philosophy is to connect art and people.
Optimism is the title of GoMA’s current major exhibition, which opened on November 15, showcasing the works of 67 Australian contemporary artists.
Via www.news.com.au:
Sculptor Patricia Piccinini says Optimism is a positive statement about the nation’s art and artists.
“It shows a real understanding and real confidence in what is happening in Australia and I feel great to be a part of it,” she says.
Piccinini is one of Australia’s most successful artists on the international scene and much of her work is sold in the US and Europe.
The theme of Optimism, Piccinini feels, is particularly appropriate to her work Genetic Engines, which is about seeing technology through new eyes.
“All my work is concerned with the definition of how what we consider artificial and natural is changing – the role that technology plays in our contemporary imagination,” she says.
She has created three sets of Vespas with personalities – ‘The Stags’, ‘Nest’ and ‘Thicker than Water’ – that extend the concept of artificial intelligence and display artificial emotion.
“I’ve imagined these machines that haven’t been domesticated by humans,” she says.
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