The White Rabbit Gallery, an opinion by me.

located in  30 Balfour Street Chippendale NSW 2008 Australia, the white rabbit is free of entry fee, and it's open from Thursday - Sunday from 10am - 6pm.
The White Rabbit, provides a lot of art pieces in political theme, and some in more humanitarian theme. In retrospect, I saw a lot of political theme art pieces in that gallery, some which they said that it cannot be viewed in their respective country, due to it's anti-government content. and trust me, I really don't get it, and I really don't know why people paid high prizes for stuff like this.
I don't have any favorite pieces of art, but if I have to choose, which I think I'm required to do in this piece of opinion, I'll pick the one called "Faces of KonKong" by artist Xiong Wenyun.

Faces of KonKong

Why? because the artist is really-really have to be omitted to the mental hospital, which is one of the most memorable thing that I remember from my trip to White Rabbit Gallery.
Why I said that she have to be omitted in mental hospital? Well from what I heard, and I bet all the person in that particular room heard: in the past, the artist Xiong Wenyun lose her child, and after that, she make a doll/statue/puppet as her child replacement; she feeds the doll; sings lullaby to the doll; heck, she even think the doll is alive. And the most interesting story of all, is she's still living "normally" out there, outside the mental hospital, due to the public perception about her works of arts. Well in my opinion that fact itself is quite creepy.

The Picture that you're seeing now is the picture of the Doll, KonKong, which means emptiness, so as the museum guide said.


and Speaking about the picture that I don't like,,

where to touch

If I'm not mistaken the name of the picture is "where to touch" by Jing Zhiyong. I just don't get it, this picture looks like being drawn by 3 or 4 years old, and the facts that the artist is 24 years old makes it worse. I know that art is quite an ambiguous term, not definite, but this is really not a gallery material in my opinion, I dunno about the opinion from some art collector or an art critics somewhere, but this one is definitely not my cup of tea. I get it that the idea is art itself, but hey, everybody have an idea, even some kids from third world country have an idea, so what makes it so special?
And again, this is purely my opinion, feel free to have your own opinion about this "piece or art"


What I feel during my trip to the White Rabbit Gallery?

Uncomfortable, and annoyed. I truly don't have any connection or even get what the art is trying to said. Call me an ignorant or an artless kind of guy, but heck, I don't want to be such a snob to trying to pretend  to perceive and understand each pieces of arts there.

White Rabbit Art Gallery

The White Rabbit Art Gallery is one of the famous gallery in Sydney. This gallery is mainly composed with collections of contemporary Chinese art.
Founded by Kerr and Judith Neilson, it focuses on works produced after 2000, works by artists such as: Wang Jianwei, WAng Zhiyuan, Lu Yifan, and many other Chinese Artists.

White Rabbit’s now showing it's third exhibition, THE BIG BANG, that celebrates the explosion of creativity that has rocked China since its “Opening Up” to the global economy began in 2000.



I haven't checked the gallery yet, but I've seen their website, which I have to say it pretty neat and I have to say it makes me want to see them more, despite my lack of interest in contemporary art. As I said before I'm lacking interest in contemporary art, it's not that I hate or dislike it, it just I don't get it. Contemporary art to me is like something that so exclusive, it cannot be enjoyed by many person, like what my lecturer said, some people hate it some people love it, and I also have to add, that contemporary art sometimes contains many bizarre and if I may say wacky at it's best, things that common people cannot relate with.

"Miraishi Tashi The Future Forseeing"

"Miraishi Tashi The Future Forseeing" by Yoshitaka Amano

Miraishi Tashi The Future Forseeing by Yoshitaka Amano is one of the picture that I like the most. Speaking about Yoshitaka Amano, he is an artist from Japan, a famous artist if I may say. Many of his works can be seen in Final Fantasy game series, as a concept designer and character designer.
 

The title of this picture, Miraishi Tashi The Future Forseeing, probably tells about how this little girl can see the future. I said probably because I cannot find any information regarding this picture in internet. But I may say that the girl certainly have a deep looks on her, so deep that she might be able to see the future.
 

The thing that I like the most about his works is that he applied a lot of mystery and fantasy touch, this also can be seen in this picture where we can feel the sense of mystery and fantasy in the girl. also the way that he use dark colours to represent the character also add up the sense of mystery and fantasy.
 

In my deepest opinion, one of the aspect that make this picture is really-really interesting is, the simplicity of the object (a girl sitting) and how that simple object can be so mysterious and have a certain aura on it.