Waterhouse Art Prize 2009

Went to the 2009 Waterhouse exhibition tonight.

(Clockwise from top left)
"Totem for the Transient II" by Roh Singh. A spectacular sculpture. Made of acrylic sheets with holes drilled in them to make a 3D image of birds. The small picture does not do it justice (my personal pick).

"Osaka" by Sarah Monteith. A Gyotaku print. Described as Sumi ink on rice paper, using the fish as a the printing medium.

"Little Red" a very intricate scuplture in bronze and wood by Simon Ward. Assembled from a number of pieces of cast bronze and carved redgum. Very difficult to see how it was put together. The body is metal with the wood "wrapped" around it.

"Ice Wall", an oil painting by George Tetlow. Very pleasing in blue tones.

Prado and Sophia

7/1/09Finally got to go to the Prado, liked these:
Durer - Self Portrait 1498
Moro - Mary Tudor 1554
van Hemessen - The Surgeon 1550-55
van Reymerswaele - St Jerome 1547
De Lucca - Hermaphrodite - 1652 Bronze

Later in the evening we went to Reina Sophia.


Afterwards we walked from the "el Galleria del Arte Moderno Reina Sophia" to "Las Bravas" to get a Potata Bravas which we had been longing for all day. Uschi ordered a calamari sandwich which was huge. I had a Tortilla Bravas, just the normal tortilla in a bravas sauce. I also ordered "Pincho marujo", spicy meat on skewers which I shared with Christine. The special potatas bravas, which we went there for, the waitress forgot to serve us! We had to go back and get it for desert. Even after all that food and in 2C temperatures Uschi still wanted an icecream.
[Uschi in Reina Sophia inside the light from an exhibition]

Hotel Sacher and Albertina

It is 1000 and we are in the Cafe Sacher. The decor is extravagant, red plush on the bench seats and fabric panels on the walls. The fabric panels have corded margins. There are mirrors and oil paintings of people prominent in the Sacher story. The menus are supported on little racks, similar to those for newspapers found in some hotel and library reading rooms. The menus also have a potted history of the cafe and hotel. The hotel has been in operation since 1830. As it is the famous cafe Sacher I had "Original Sachertorte". Uschi had apple strudel and Christine had a topfen strudel. With tea and coffee the morning tea came to about 25 Euro.


After the cafe we went to the Albertina. A lot of paintings by many artists were there. Amongst others I saw:



Degas; Two dancers around 1905. This was a pastel done by Degas as his eyesight was deteriorating in latter years.
Monet; The flood of the Seine at Vethueil
Seurat; Locomotive
Renoir; Portrait of a young girl (Elizabeth Maitre)
Klimt; Liegenderand about 4 Picassos.

These were mostly from the Batliner private collection.After that we visited the state rooms. The walls had fabric panel covering like the Hotel Sacher, but much grander. The same fabric was used for the curtains and upholstery too.

The gallery was good but like the modern art galley in Tehran, some of the best were away in storage. Uschi was particularly miffed as she had been looking forward to seeing Durer's rabbit for ages and only a facsimile was on display (and the praying hands too).

Foka 4

Northern Lights 2

Adelaide University. Elder Hall

Northern Lights 1

As part of the Festival of Arts buildings along North Terrace are being lit by coloured pictures of themselves.

Here is part of the Museum/Library buildings.

Helpman Academy Graduate Exhibition

There are a number of free visual arts exhibitions as part of the Adelaide Fringe. At the Torrens Parade Ground Drill Hall the 2008 Helpman Academy Graduate Exhibition is on show.

Some of the items that appealled to me are these: (clockwise from top)

"Connections in White II" by Ebony Adinsall, hand blown glass vessels;

"Electric Environments #2" by Nikki Anderson, modelling items and electric wires;

and

A part of "Everything you can Think of is True" by Heidi Kenyon, an installation of trimmed Avocado leaves.

One item not shown that I particularly liked was Adele Booth's "The Post Building Project" where Adele placed small found samples of Adelaide buildings in envelopes around the city. Those envelope locations were indicated on a city map.

Some of the envelopes were returned by anaonymous finders by post, these formed part of the display, along with the map.

The Museum...

...on North Terrace.
Lit up in preparation for this Friday night part of the Festival of Arts.

The Waterhouse Art Prize

Went to the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize private viewing.




















Some interesting pieces there (clockwise from top left):
"Tasmanian Wedgetail Eagle" by Belinda Kurczok.
"Brad was Too Busy to Notice" by Sharon Raj. I liked this one a lot. I picked the Lichtenstein style straight away. It was only afterwards when I checked on it that I found this was a new representation of Lichtenstein's "Drowning Girl".
"Radiolaria (Thalassicolla Delagica)" by Megan Wilford. This one was in the Sculpture and Objects category and was made of fine glass beads and thread, very fine work. Possibly my favourite although I liked many of the works on display (I gave this one my public choice vote).
And finally, "Double Drummer" by Phil Suter. This impressive moth earned the first prize in the Paintings category.

The tomb of the poet Sadi, Shiraz

The tomb of the poet Sadi at Shiraz
"O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth." - Sadi (1184 - 1283)

The Carpet Museum

A carpet on display











The main entrance to the carpet museum












One of the oldest carpets in the museum, 700 (?) years old

8/7/2006 - Goethes House

11/8/2004 Berlin, The Pergammon Museum

The Ishtar Gate.

Famous in First Year High School History Texts!

I got chatted by the security people for this one (Whoops)