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Progressing the World Expo '88 Vision
- A non-government not-for-profit entity celebrating Brisbane's World Expo '88 -
Art
Sculpture at World Expo '88
Foreword from
Sculpture : The World Expo '88 Collection (1988)
Publisher - Philip Bacon Galleries
The World Expo 88 Collection has been
formed to illustrate the interdependence of art and technology. Water, sound, light
and motion merge with the respected mediums of steel, bronze and wood, in reassessing
the traditional limitations of sculpture.
This is one of the largest and most prestigious sculpture collections assembled in Australia — a credit to Creative Director John Truscott — 90 works from 20 nations in all.
It is a collection of considerable diversity and vision. Truly international, it allows the works of Australia's leading sculptors to be viewed alongside those already world-renowned — Henry Moore, Auguste Rodin, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Dame Elisabeth Frink, and Kenneth Armitage, to name a few.
As a sculpture park, "World Expo 88" is unique. Its size, location, diversity of landscape and population, provide the sculptor with a transient metropolis, and all its associated challenges.
16 works have been commissioned specifically for World Expo 88. Others have been kindly loaned by museums, an galleries, artists and collectors from around the world. Their generosity is greatly appreciated.
The collection is valued at over 25 million dollars, and whilst not all works are for sale, those that are, are clearly identified in the catalogue.
This is one of the largest and most prestigious sculpture collections assembled in Australia — a credit to Creative Director John Truscott — 90 works from 20 nations in all.
It is a collection of considerable diversity and vision. Truly international, it allows the works of Australia's leading sculptors to be viewed alongside those already world-renowned — Henry Moore, Auguste Rodin, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Dame Elisabeth Frink, and Kenneth Armitage, to name a few.
As a sculpture park, "World Expo 88" is unique. Its size, location, diversity of landscape and population, provide the sculptor with a transient metropolis, and all its associated challenges.
16 works have been commissioned specifically for World Expo 88. Others have been kindly loaned by museums, an galleries, artists and collectors from around the world. Their generosity is greatly appreciated.
The collection is valued at over 25 million dollars, and whilst not all works are for sale, those that are, are clearly identified in the catalogue.
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Forward re-published with permission
from "Sculpture: The World Expo 88
Collection," published by Philip
Bacon Galleries, New Farm, Brisbane, 1988, for World
Expo '88.
View the original publication of "Sculpture: The World Expo 88 Collection" by Australian Library Inter-Library Loan request - or - purchase a copy from your favourite second-hand book dealer, or alternately at eBay http://www.ebay.com.au.
View the original publication of "Sculpture: The World Expo 88 Collection" by Australian Library Inter-Library Loan request - or - purchase a copy from your favourite second-hand book dealer, or alternately at eBay http://www.ebay.com.au.