NEWS
SYDNEY PAVILION, SHANGHAI BIENNALE
ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT
Khaled Sabsabi, Mush (installation view, Artpsace, Sydney) (2011), 5-channel HD video, 4:3, colour, sound. Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
4A is pleased to announce the curatorial concept and artist selection for the Sydney Pavilion, at the 9th Shanghai Biennale opening on 1 October 2012. Titled The Floating Eye, the Sydney Pavilion will showcase works by six contemporary Australian artists with strong connections to Sydney: Brook Andrew, Shaun Gladwell, Bababa International, Shen Shaomin, Raquel Ormella, and Khaled Sabsabi.
“In a location like Sydney, Australia, with its Aboriginal history, colonisation, waves of mass migration, shifting economic bases and trade, awareness of the natural environment, natural disasters, there is no single narrative and straightforward representative space of its history. As people come and go, so does the routes of its capital and ideas shift – new narratives emerge and recede,” says Curator for the Sydney Pavilion, Aaron Seeto.
Together the work presented in The Floating Eye illustrates the layering of histories, social and diverse cultural experience which is a reflection of contemporary life in global cities like Sydney.
4A MEMBERS' LUNCHTIME ARTIST TALK
TOMORROW 1230PM FRIDAY 17 AUGUST
Ken + Julia Yonetani, What the Birds Knew (2012), Uranium glass beads, aluminium wire, UV lights. Courtesy of the artists, Artereal Gallery, Sydney and GV Art, London. Photography: Zan Wimberley
Don’t forget 4A’s Members’ Lunchtime Artists Talks is on tomorrow from 1230PM Friday 17 August. Come and hear from the Ken + Julia Yonetani everything you've wanted to know about their works in What the Birds Knew.
Free Event. All welcome. If you are not a Member, come along and get a sample of our future Members Events. Join us afterwards for some tea in the gallery.
We've also got a lunchtime giveaway, thanks to our friends, the Sydney Young Chinese who are running their first Sydney Asian Art Day tomorrow night at Oxford Art Factory. A double pass is up for grabs for the first person who signs up to be a 4A Member at our artist talk tomorrow. See you there!
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Last week, 4A was in full swing with our Emerging Curators Program and the opening of What the Birds Knew. Check out photos from Opening Night. Thanks to everyone who came along to 4A’s Qiu Zhijie Keynote Lecture. Stay tuned as we will soon have the lecture available online.
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