Heavy guard for Picasso in Hobart

June 22nd, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Picasso’s Weeping Woman is being guarded like never before at Tasmanian drawcard MONA’s largest exhibition yet.

The prized possession of the National Gallery of Victoria finds herself alongside a fearsome-looking wooden shield from the Pacific.

It’s the kind of contrast that viewers can expect at the Museum of Old and New Art’s impressive new exhibition, Theatre of the World, which opens on Saturday.

“I’m sure it was never seen like that,” French curator Jean-Hubert Martin says.

“This is why it’s interesting to have a new point of view about it.

“It’s all about works, known or unknown, shown in a way that is sometimes totally unexpected.

“But I think surprise is a very important and essential element.”

Mr Martin, who has worked at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and at the Venice Biennale, is on a mission to teach us to see again.

To do it, he has placed 180 pieces from millionaire MONA owner David Walsh’s collection and 300 pieces from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in 16 themed rooms, and not always where you’d normally expect to find them.

Egyptian mummy cases face the largest ever hanging of South Pacific barkcloth paintings, while famous Australian painters Brett Whiteley and Sidney Nolan are joined by taxidermic birds from the state museum’s scientific collection.

“Life today is about visual images,” Mr Martin says.

“We take so much of our learning and communication from television and the internet but we are not learning how to analyse images.

“We have lost confidence in our own ability to understand and have handed responsibility to the experts.”

The exhibition is big and, MONA’s trademark, bold – bums do feature. And it all works as something of an anti-blockbuster.

“It’s the work as such that is important,” Mr Martin says.

Theatre of the World runs until April next year.