Face Up
dal 1/10/2003 al 4/1/2004
Segnalato da
1/10/2003
Face Up
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Contemporary Art from Australia. Space and place, inversion and transformation, humour and playfulness appear in many of the thirty-six works by 14 leading Australian artists in Face Up.
Contemporary Art from Australia
Space and place, inversion and transformation, humour and playfulness
appear in many of the thirty-six works by 14 leading Australian artists in
Face Up.
Curated by Britta Schmitz, visitors will enter the Hamburger Bahnhof
through Callum Morton's enormous Great White Shark jaws; Patricia
Piccinini, fresh from her success at the Venice Biennale, will immerse
visitors in car culture, adolescence and transformation in her
installation; James Angus takes on the fundamental concerns of sculpture
in his up-ended balloon, manta ray and fascist palazzo; Rosemary Laing
explores the notion of the Australian landscape as a culturally predicated
construct in her cinematic scale photographs; Susan Norrie portrays a
planet on the verge of catastrophe in her apocalyptic video projections;
delicate vitrine sculptures of frill neck lizards, ferns and fruit bats by
Fiona Hall explore issues of trade and colonization; and a new in situ
painting by Guan Wei focuses on migration and refugees.
The ghostly images of Indigenous artist Darren Siwes explore presence and
absence; Simryn Gill considers how we experience place in 260 photographs
of lounge rooms in Malaysia; East meets West in the exquisite porcelain
works of Ah Xian; the 'great Australian dream' of the backyard-makeover is
humourously exposed in the work of Robert MacPherson; David Rosetzky
investigates our tendency to live as if we are on reality TV in his video
installation; Daniel von Sturmer interrogates the interplay between the
viewer and the viewed in the context of the gallery space; and Mikala
Dwyer will create a new multilevel plastic sculpture.
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Art Forum Berlin 03
Berlin Exhibition Grounds/Messegelände
Entry Hall 19 Masurenallee
Berlin-Charlottenburg
October 1-5, 2003
Vernissage Tuesday 30 September
Australian galleries include David Pestorius, Brisbane, Anna Schwartz
Gallery and Gitte Weise Gallery plus Artlink magazine. Discussion panels
include Australian Culture Boom 2 October, 2003 at 15.00; Australian
artist Susan Norrie in Inter-disciplines: art and film, October 2, 2003 at
17:30 and Isabel Carlos, curator, Biennale of Sydney 2004 in
'Biennale-Land' or Real Place? 5 October, 2003 at 15.00.
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Other Exhibitions
Other Australian highlights in Berlin include video screening and talks by
Destiny Deacon [29 October] and Fiona Hall [8 October] at the Neuer
Berliner Kunstverein; Andreas Tesch's large scale ceramic objects at Art
Berlin, 3 October - 23 October 2003; and figurative paintings by Stewart
MacFarlane at Galerie Carlos Hulsch, 3 October - 14 November.
artsaustralia berlin 03 is a two year contemporary arts program supported
by the Australia Council for the Arts and the Department of Foreign
Affairs and Trade through the Australia International Cultural Council.
Image: Callum Morton, Down the Hatch 2003. Resin, polystyrene, steel, enamel paint dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist & Anna Schwartz Gallery
Hamburger Bahnhof
Invalidenstrasse 50-51
10557 Berlin