when: 15 November 2023 | venue: Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) | cost: All tickets: $10 - $28 | address: Stanley Place South Brisbane 4101 | website: https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/exhibition/fairy-tales | tickets: https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/exhibition/fairy-tales
published: 15 Nov 2023, 5 min read
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'Fairy Tales' the exhibition explores how fairy tales from across the world have held our fascination for centuries through art and culture by showcasing the way visual storytellers draw on these narratives to entrance, delight and disconcert audiences.
Bringing together artists, film makers and designers through painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, film and filmic elements, props, costumes, and fashion, the exhibition highlights the archetypal figures we know so well - wicked witches, stalwart princes and princesses, and magical animals, both fierce and friendly.
'Fairy Tales' explores prominent narrative themes; stories of children coming of age and ageing, the shifting role of gender and otherness, tales of bravery and justice, loyalty and humility, cunning and aspiration. In doing so it brings together well-known visual motifs of woods and trees, mirrors and blood, impossible shoes and clothing for royalty, castles and coaches, and at least one pumpkin.
Exclusive to Brisbane, tickets on sale now.
Image: Yayoi Kusama / 'Flowers that bloom at midnight' 2011 / Purchased 2012 with funds from the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Diversity Foundation through the QAG Foundation / Collection: QAG / © Yayoi Kusama / Photograph: Mark Sherwood © QAGOMA
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'Fairy Tales' the exhibition explores how fairy tales from across the world have held our fascination for centuries through art and culture by showcasing the way visual storytellers draw on these narratives to entrance, delight and disconcert audiences.
Bringing together artists, film makers and designers through painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, film and filmic elements, props, costumes, and fashion, the exhibition highlights the archetypal figures we know so well - wicked witches, stalwart princes and princesses, and magical animals, both fierce and friendly.
'Fairy Tales' explores prominent narrative themes; stories of children coming of age and ageing, the shifting role of gender and otherness, tales of bravery and justice, loyalty and humility, cunning and aspiration. In doing so it brings together well-known visual motifs of woods and trees, mirrors and blood, impossible shoes and clothing for royalty, castles and coaches, and at least one pumpkin.
Exclusive to Brisbane, tickets on sale now.
Image: Yayoi Kusama / 'Flowers that bloom at midnight' 2011 / Purchased 2012 with funds from the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Diversity Foundation through the QAG Foundation / Collection: QAG / © Yayoi Kusama / Photograph: Mark Sherwood © QAGOMA
Go see Fairy Tales 2023.
Fairy Tales 2023 is on 15 November 2023. The opening hours are: See event for details. Conveniently located in South Brisbane. Call 07 3840 7303 for details. Visit their website at https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/exhibition/fairy-tales.
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