4 August 2008: New exhibitions open this week
Cautionary Tales: the satirical engravings of William Hogarth
Grimm Stuff: folktales and fairy stories
8 August – 8 November 2008
Free entry
Cautionary Tales: the satirical engravings of William Hogarth brings together more than 50 of Hogarth's witty, subversive and often riotously humorous prints, all drawn from the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library. It focuses on Hogarth's use of the print series, where a story or moral point extends through a number of images in a way that foreshadows the comic strip. Hogarth's key themes are brought up to date in the exhibition through the inclusion of work by contemporary New Zealand cartoonists David Low and Trace Hodgson.
Cautionary Tales is accompanied by three online exhibitions which present Hogarth's 'Marriage-à-la-mode series', a group of cartoons that examine New Zealanders' attitudes towards marriage over time, and a group of Trace Hodgson's 'The Underbelly' cartoons.
View Hogarth's Marriage-à-la-mode
View Marriage-à-la-New Zealand
Grimm Stuff: folktales and fairy stories showcases the work of notable illustrators of fairy stories from the Victorian era to today, including Maurice Sendak, Arthur Rackham, and New Zealand's Gavin Bishop. The exhibition also explores some folk tales from around the world, and the 'flower fairy' phenomenon.
