The Beauty of Distance – Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age. | Part 2
Part 2 of an interview with David Eliot, artistic director of the 17th Sydney Biennale 2010.
“David Elliott was Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the founding Director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, and, in 2007 the first Director of Istanbul Modern, Turkey. From 1998–2004, he was President of CIMAM (the International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art) and in 2008, he was the Rudolf Arnheim Guest Professor of Art History at Humboldt University, Berlin.” Vernissage Art TV
doneThe Beauty of Distance – Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age.
Part 1 of an interview with David Elliot, director of the Sydney Biennale 2010.
This interview was conducted at at Artane Gallery Istanbul in September of this year.
“David Elliott is a cultural historian whose main interests concern contemporary art, Russian avant-garde and the visual cultures of central and eastern Europe, Asia and the non-western world from the late nineteenth century. Beginning in the early 1980s, he formulated a series of pioneering exhibitions in one of the first programs to integrate non-western culture with contemporary art. He has published a large number of books, articles and catalogues on these subjects and has curated many exhibitions. He has also written extensively about the present-day role and function of museums and contemporary art.”Vernissage Art TV
doneCindy Sherman at Gagosian
I think they are the most realistic characters I have done. I completely empathised with them. They could be me. That’s what was really scary, how easy it was to make myself look like that.
–Cindy Sherman
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Memory | Junichi Yamamoto
An extraordinary production made using Blender.
3d: Ryusuke Furuya, Kyushu University Graduate School of Design.
Written and directed by Junichi Yamamoto.
Olafur Eliasson: Playing with space and light
In the spectacular large-scale projects he’s famous for (such as “Waterfalls” in New York harbor), Olafur Eliasson creates art from a palette of space, distance, color and light. The transparent simplicity and experiential nature of his work has built Olafur Eliasson’s reputation as one of the world’s most accessible creators of contemporary art.
“Denmark-born Icelander Olafur Eliasson has taken the art world by storm — and the meteorological dimensions of that statement are appropriate. His immensely popular The Weather Project, at London’s Tate Museum, immersed spectators in an artificial mirrored environment with its own looming sun (and its own analog of London fog), and attracted 2 million visitors in the process. In the summer of 2008, his four massive waterfalls spectacularly punctuated key sites in New York’s harbor — including one pouring from beneath the Brooklyn Bridge”. TED
Footage courtesy of http://www.ted.com/
doneShaun Gladwell: MADDESTMAXIMVS | Australian Pavilion | La Biennale di Venezia 2009
Shaun Gladwell represents Australia at the 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2009. The show entitled MADDESTMAXIMVS brings together the artist’s trademark slowed-footage video installations of figures undertaking acts of physical virtuosity, with sculptural works and interventions into the fabric of the pavilion itself, such as a motorcycle that sticks in the outer wall of the building.
MADDESTMAXIMVS has been developed over a two-year period and marks a shift from Shaun Gladwell’s earlier focus on urban environments and engages instead in a personal exploration of the boundaries and possibilities of a human relationship to the Australian hinterland.
doneAntony Gormley | Another Place
A video montage of Antony Gormley’s Another Place. Gormley’s permanent installation is situated at Crosby Beach, Merseyside, England.
“The idea was to test time and tide, stillness and movement, and somehow engage with the daily life of the beach”. The completed installation stretched 2.5 km down the coast and 1 km out to sea, with an average distance between the 100 pieces of 500 metres.
Design High | Louise Blouin Foundation
“In partnership with Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Louise Blouin Foundation in London presents a group exhibition of design art with works by Atelier van Lieshout, Drift, Ingrid Donat, Joris Laarman, Lionel Scoccimaro, Marc Quinn, Mathieu Lehaneur, Pablo Reinoso, Rainer Splitt, rAndom International, Robert Stadler, Sebastian Brajkovic, Thierry Dreyfus, Vincent Dubourg and Wendell Castle.
In this video, curator Natalie Kovacs talks about the title and the concept of the exhibition, the convergence of design, art and architecture, and specific works like Atelier van Lieshout’s Wombhouse and Mahieu Lehaneur’s Local River.” VTV
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THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE | Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age
Information about the 17th Biennale of Sydney is available at http://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au/bos17/
David Elliot has been chosen to curate the Biennale which kicks off in May 2010.
The following media releases illuminate the theme of the show and the rationale behind the choice of the curator. Releases and image courtesy of Biennale of Sydney website
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