Posted by kluster on May 21, 2010
Last Tuesday we were invited to take a sneak peek of all things Sydney Biennale. From early morning to late afternoon we ventured through the MCA, across the harbour, into Walsh Bay, around Cockatoo Island, back across the harbour, along the Circular Quay foreshore past the Opera House, through the Botanic Gardens, up to the Art Gallery of NSW and down to Artspace in Woolloomooloo. Who would have thought art could be so simultaneously rewarding and exhausting?
The breadth of Sydney’s 17th Biennale, The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age is impressively extensive. To say that Artist Director, David Elliott’s realised vision is comprehensive would be an understatement. 'Expansive' would bring the hammer closer to the head of that particular nail. 440 works from 166 local and international artists are dotted across kilometres of public and private Sydney harbour-side real estate. More...
sydney biennale, the beauty of distance: songs of survival in a precarious age, david elliott, miguel angel rios, yayoi kusama, cal guo-qiang, choi jeong hwa