Adelaide Festival 2 – 18 March 2012
Adelaide Festival, Visual Arts Program 2 March – 29 April 2012
Top – STEPHEN BRAM
ground floor south gallery, 2008, detail
Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne University
Photo courtesy Ross Bird
Courtesy of the Artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Sydney
Bottom – TIM SILVER
detail, Untitled (bust), 2011
Pine Timbermate woodfiller
Courtesy of the Artist and Breenspace, Sydney
Parallel Collisions
2012 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Curators Natasha Bullock and Alexie Glass-Kantor
An experiential proposition inspired by art, cinema and literature, the 2012 Adelaide Biennial explores the ways in which ideas emerge, converge and re-form through time. From a floating island of 2000 cut-glass objects to an explosive light installation that clocks in real time human births, deaths and dying stars, this Biennial considers the temporality of the present as it parallels and collides with the past.
Across four physical platforms, Parallel Collisions presents 21 commissioned works by some of Australia’s leading artists, 21 original texts, a designer, an architect, two curators and an institution, forming a connective tissue that attempts to understand our subjective experience of time.
The accompanying publication is a 344 page offering where discursive, contradictory, creative and lateral ideas converge. Contributing authors include Christos Tsiolkas, Adrian Martin and Justin Clemens.
See more here
Top – ROSEMARY LAING
Groundspeed (Rose Petal) #17, 2001, detail
C Type photography
110 x 185 cm
Courtesy of the Artist and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Bottom – JOHN GLOVER
A View of the artist’s house and garden, in Mills Plains,
Van Diemen’s Land, 1835, detail
oil on canvas
76.4 x 114.4 cm
Morgan Thomas Bequest Fund 1951
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Top – SHAUN GLADWELL
Pataphysical Man, 2005, detail
video still
Performer: Daniel Esteve Pomares
Videographer: Gotaro Uematsu
Courtesy of the Artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Sydney
Bottom – MARCO FUSINATO
Mass Black Implosion (Free music No 1, Percy Grainger), 2009, detail
ink on archival facsimile of score
23 x 32 cm
Courtesy of the Artist and Private collection
See what ‘s on at the Adelaide Festival 2012