EXHIBITION AS SITE - BIENNALE PREVIEW

Come to a great seminar and get the low-down on the Biennale too!
WEDNESDAY 31st March 5:30 - 7:30 MCA ONLY $20!!

VADEA EAS Workshop

OLAFUR ELIASSON MICROSITE NOW LIVE!

To coincide with the exhibition Take your time: Olafur Eliasson opening 10 December, the MCA has launched a microsite dedicated to all things Eliasson.

Regularly updated posts feature artist profiles, interviews and articles about Eliasson's large-scale installations. All this and more at eliasson.com.au

NEW EXHIBITION @ THE MCA - I WALK THE LINE: NEW AUSTRALIAN DRAWING

From the MCA...I LOVED this exhibition showing new approaches to drawing - comprehensive and engaging.

All the best,

Sal

I Walk the Line: New Australian Drawing

17 MARCH - 24 MAY 2009

Drawing is enjoying a renaissance in contemporary Australian art. This exhibition examines new approaches to drawing and the reinvigoration of drawing practice by many (mostly young) artists from across the nation who have spear-headed its resurgent popularity.

The exhibition adopts the traditional definition of drawing as ‘mark-making’, but its focus extends to performative works that feature the production of marks as well as art objects. As a result it includes both drawings and works about drawing.

The range of works comprises collaborative and performative drawings, animation, as well as works that feature the cross-over between drawing and the graphic arts. From MCA website

YAYOI KUSAMA @ MCA

Took my Year 12 class to ARTEXPRESS last week and after they were finished "being intimidated" by some of the beautiful and innovative work there we moved on to the MCA.

We went to see the Simryn Gill exhibition (and it was very good) but then we had about 25 mins to spare, so we visited the Mirrored Years by Yayoi Kusama and it was FANTASTIC!!

The perfect "upnote" to end the excursion on. Some of the exhibits have been shown here before, but the mirrored room (Fireflies on Water) and the room covered in fluoro dots have to be seen to be appreciated!

The students were very impressed and it doesn't hurt that she is part of our next case study! If you have a chance to visit, you won't be disappointed. At the MCA Sydney until 8th June 2009.

Working across different media and forms that include painting, collage, sculpture, installation and film, as well as performance and its documentation, Kusama creates works that reveal a fixation with repetition, pattern and accumulation. Describing herself as an “obsessive artist”, her work is intensely sensual, infused with autobiographical, psychological and sexual content.

From MCA website

Image from Time Out Sydney (review there too).

Enjoy
KP:)