Museum of Old and New Art

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Museum of Old and New Art

The Museum of Old and New Art ( MONA ) is an art museum located in the Moorilla Wine Country on the Berriedale Peninsula in Hobart , Tasmania , Australia . It is the largest privately funded museum in Australia. The museum displays ancient, modern and contemporary art from the David Walsh collection . Walsh once called the museum a “subversive Disneyland for adults”.

MONA opened on January 21, 2011, coincidentally at the same time as the third MONA FOMA Festival. The opening ceremony was attended by 1,350 invited guests. A further 2500 guests were drawn by lottery to attend the evening event. Bands like True Live , The Scientists of Modern Music , Wire , Health and The Cruel Sea performed there .

The Dark MOFO is the museum's annual festival. The first took place from June 13 to 23, 2013.

building

The predecessor of MONA, the Moorilla Museum of Antiquities , was founded in 2001 by the Tasmanian millionaire David Walsh. It was closed in 2007 to avoid necessary $ 75 million renovation costs. The new museum was designed by Melbourne architect Nonda Katsalidis and built by Hansen Yuncken . It is a three-story building in the cliffs of the Berriedale peninsula. David Walsh made the decision to put a large part of the building underground so as not to interfere with two of the artist Roy Ground's historic houses on the property. Walsh said that the new museum "presents itself slowly to the visitor and does not impose his presence [...] with a hint of danger that reignites the experience of experiencing art".

The building has no windows and gives the visitor an intentionally ominous atmosphere. When entering the, visitors encounter a seemingly endless flight of stairs , an experience that a critic once compared to the descent into the rock city of Petra . In order to see the works of art, the visitor has to work his way back from the basement to the surface, following a path that is to be understood as an alternative to the descending spiral passage in the Guggenheim Museum .

The best way to get to the museum is by ferry across the Derwent River .

Exhibitions

Snake , the heart of the museum

The museum houses 400 works of art from David Walsh's private collection. Notable works in the Monanism exhibition include works such as Sidney Nolan's Snake , which were first shown to the Australian public. Including a machine that converts food into excrement. Or Stephen Shanabrook's On the road to heaven the highway to hell and Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary . The curators of MONA are Nicole Durling, responsible for contemporary Australian art, and Olivier Varenne, responsible for modern, international and contemporary art.

Reviews

architecture

Katsalidi's architecture of the museum was not only regarded as successful in that it fulfilled its function as a presentation space for a collection, but rather expanded into a special experience for the visitor and a unique and magnificent, idiosyncratic whole through a choreography of light play, room design and choice of materials arise.

art

Michael Connor of the conservative literary and culture magazine Quadrant said that "MONA shows the art of an exhausted, crumbling civilization." With lights, impressions and amazing effects, it illustrates a moral bankruptcy that blends perfectly with contemporary fashion, design, architecture and cinema. This art is expensive and shows decay.

Richard Dorment, art critic for the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph , says Walsh does not collect famous artists; his indifference to fashion is one of the strengths of his collection. Walsh likes "art that is fun and attracts attention, comparable to the sting of a bee or a light blow on the solar plexus ".

tourism

In October 2012, an author of the Lonely Planet travel guide series ranked Hobart seventh in the top ten cities to visit in 2013. He referred to the MONA as the main attraction of the city - a situation comparable to Bilbao and the Guggenheim Museum .

costs

The ongoing charge is 8 million Australian dollars annually . They are borne by the income of the winery, the brewery, the restaurant and a hotel on the premises. In May 2012 it was announced that the museum would end its free entry policy. Since then, admission fees have been charged to visitors from other states and abroad, while Tasmanians and youth continue to receive free admission.

Movie

ART IN PARADISE - The Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Australia. Film by Sabine Pollmeier and Joachim Haupt. Documentary. Germany 2017.

Web links

Commons : MONA  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Shock of the old and new . In: The Sydney Morning Herald , January 10, 2011. Retrieved March 19, 2011. 
  2. ↑ Kane Young: Biggest shock is the best . In: The Mercury , January 24, 2011. Retrieved March 17, 2012. 
  3. ↑ Gabriella Coslovich: Hobart's infamous son plays to the gallery . In: The Age , January 21, 2011. Retrieved January 22, 2011. 
  4. ↑ Dark Mofo - a new winter festival for 2013 . Archived from the original on July 14, 2015. Retrieved July 13, 2015. 
  5. ^ The Collector. In The Age , April 14, 2007
  6. ↑ a b c Gabriella Coslovich, A revolt in art , The Age , January 15, 2011
  7. ↑ a b David Neustein: Museum of Old and New Art . Australian Design Review. July 28, 2011. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
  8. ↑ a b Elizabeth Farrelly : Building breaks the mold for all the right reasons . The Sydney Morning Herald. November 3, 2012. Retrieved September 9, 2012.
  9. ^ A brush with greatness . In: The Mercury , January 1, 2011. Retrieved January 22, 2011. 
  10. ^ Art's Subterranean Disneyland , UTNE Reader
  11. ↑ Michael Connor: MONA's brutal banality . In: Quadrant , April 2011. Retrieved March 17, 2012. 
  12. ^ Dorment, Richard (November 29, 2012). "The art of Australia: coast to coast culture" , The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  13. ↑ MONA helps Hobart make top 10 cities list . In: ABC News , Australian Broadcasting Corporation , October 22, 2012. 
  14. ↑ Michaela Boland: Doors open on tycoon's art world . In: The Australian , January 22, 2011. 
  15. ^ Hobart museum confirms entry fee . In: Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved May 20, 2011. 
  16. ↑ Mona: Admission. Retrieved July 18, 2013 .
  17. ↑ program ARD de-ARD Play-Out-Center Potsdam, Potsdam Germany: Art in Paradise. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .

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