Reality & Invention
Yasumasa Morimura, Japan b.1951 / Blinded by the light 1991 / Type C photograph with surface varnish on paper on plywood in gold frame / Triptych: 200 x 383cm (overall, framed); 200 x 121cm (each panel) / Purchased 1996 with proceeds from the Brisbane BMW Renaissance Ball through the QAG Foundation. Celebrating the Queensland Art Gallery’s Centenary 1895-1995 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Yasumasa Morimura / View full image
When
22 May – 19 Sep 2021
Where
Gallery of Modern Art, Galleries 3.3 & 3.4 (Marica Sourris and James C. Sourris AM Galleries)
About
'Reality & Invention' focused on artist responses to social change experienced throughout Asia since the 1980s, and the emergence of realism as a defining artistic strategy of the period. This was a time when Asian artists rose to international prominence.
Taking in movements as diverse as Japan’s New Wave, Indian figurative-narrative art and Indonesia’s politically charged New Art Movement these arresting and innovative artworks are engaged with political and social structures, religion and spirituality, gender and sexuality and more.
The exhibition featured many well-known works from the Gallery’s Collection alongside some rarely seen holdings of major significance.