IF your kids are likely to enjoy interactive art activities, visit Warwick Art Gallery until this Friday when the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art comes to town with its free Kids’ On Tour program.
This program includes hands-on making activities and multimedia interactives developed in collaboration with Chinese-born New York artist, Cai Guo-Qiang, whose landmark exhibition ‘Falling Back to Earth’ is currently showing at GOMA in Brisbane.
QAGOMA director Chris Saines said the popularity of the exhibition and the accompanying Children’s Art Centre project Let’s Create an Exhibition with a Boy Named Cai had been overwhelming, with 60,000 children visiting GOMA since it opened in November.
‘Kids on Tour’ and Let’s Create an Exhibition with a Boy Named Cai are proudly supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation. The Children’s Art Centre at GOMA is sponsored by Santos.
‘We are very excited to be able to share the project with audiences in regional Queensland,’ Mr Saines said.
‘‘Kids on Tour’ reinterprets Cai Guo-Qiang’s popular Bridge Crossing activity, first staged for the Kids’ APT program at the ‘Third Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ in 1999, in which children use bamboo and masking tape to create their own small bridges inspired by the artist’s work.
‘It also features activities from Let’s Create an Exhibition with a Boy Named Cai, inviting children to participate in Cai’s working methods and create their own miniature exhibitions,’ Mr Saines said.
Visitors can make their own small-scale installations using templates designed by the artist, and create spectacular multimedia ’gunpowder drawings’.
The program is held in conjunction with ‘Cai Guo-Qiang: Falling Back to Earth’ currently showing at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane and the interactive artists project Let’s Create an Exhibition with a Boy Named Cai at GOMA’s Children’s Art Centre, showing until May 11, 2014.
Kids on Tour started on Tuesday and runs until Friday from 10am to 4pm at Warwick Art Gallery, 49 Albion Street.
