Rich & Strange

Rich & Strange

Vol 23 no 3, 2003


An overview of key issues in Australia, cutting edge art practice and their echoes in the global arena. Juliana Engberg curates FACE UP a big show for the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin and Isabel Carlos directs the 2004 Sydney Biennale. Comparisons between South African and Australian art are explored in Intersections from the BHP Billiton Collection in Melbourne. Major features on painters David Keeling. Dorothy Napangardi, and Colin McCahon, sculptors Hossein Valamanesh, Julie Rrap, Ron Mueck and Patricia Piccinini, and multi media with Jeffrey Shaw. Plus Indigenous photography and new thoughts on the meaning of Aboriginal art from Stephanie Radok.


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Why Correggio Jones is not The Hero of the 2004 Biennale of Sydney

Author: Ms Joanna Mendelssohn, feature

The title of the 2004 Sydney Biennale was 'Biennale Of Reason and Emotion', the curator was Isabel Carlos, a Portuguese woman who will stress her cultural links with the New World, but in her case it is South America rather than North. One of the ideas she wished to explore through the Biennale was the concept of 'south' in a world dominated by the culture of the 'north'. As she states " "what I really want is to create a Biennale that works on the borders of the perception and on artworks that change our way of seeing the world around us"."



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