In the City

We're staying in Blackburn, a suburb about 40minutes by train from central Melbourne. So we don't visit the city every day. But we spent. Few mornings in the city this week...re-visiting the Triennial exhibit at the NGV International, the NGV Ian Potter Centre, Alexander Park, and the Hellenic Museum.

Since the Triennial exhibit is so big, we had to visit it twice. An exhibit of Guo Pei's (China) haute couture designs were on the bizarre side, but interesting. Some pieces were inspired from Rennaissance era ceiling paintings depicting heavenly scenes in a Swiss church. All of the dresses are made from unique materials; one even glows in the dark. 

A few examples of Guo Pei designs

The NGV/Ian Potter Center is dedicated to Australian art. We saw an exhibit by contemporary artist Gareth Sanson. I guess you could say that his work is abstract expressionism; there are some obvious references to Picasso with the cubist tendencies...plus some surrealism...plus use of photos in a collage-like presentation. Add a dash...make that a truck load of British artist Francis Bacon, and some gender bending sexual references, and you have Gareth Sansom. 

Here's an example, The blue masked transvestite

The NGV Ian Potter Centre is a new building which looks like it could be used in a Star Wars scene. Steel and glass with many dizzying angles. See below.