biennale of sydney 2010

biennale of sydney 2010 (11 articles)

brett graham: weapons of mass destruction

art | 07.05.10
'weapons of mass destruction' are large-scale projects constructed from MDF, steel and rubber tires.

angela ellsworth: seer bonnets - a continuing

art | 07.01.10
a series of antiquated pioneer women's bonnets, constructed out of thousands of pearl-tipped corsage pins embedded into fabric with their points directed inwards.

paul mccarthy: ship of fools, ship adrift 2

art | 06.23.10
a contemporary rephrasing of the medieval allegory, depicting a world of power without principle as the ship and its denizens hurtle obviously towards their own destruction.

cai guo-qiang: inopportune

art | 06.09.10
the installation is comprised of nine identical white cars, which appear to be arrested in an animated sequence of explosion.

louise bourgeois at the biennale of sydney 20

art | 06.07.10
for over 60 years, louise bourgeois worked across disciplines, producing sculptures, drawings, paintings and prints dealing with personal memory, emotion and the body. her work is currently on show at the 17th bien...

peter hennessey: my hubble

art | 06.04.10
born from his fascination with scientific phenomena and popularised media generated events, 'my hubble' (the universe turned in on itself) is a life size re-enactment of the hubble space telescope

shen shaomin: summit

art | 06.02.10
'summit' was conceived as a response to the global financial crisis. taking the annual G8 summit as a point of reference, shaomin has created a hypothetical meeting of five of the most significant communist leaders.

kader attia: kasbah installation

art | 05.23.10
reflecting the conditions in which the majority of the world's population lives, a series of shanty town roofs are installed at different angles to make a patchwork of corrugated iron, satellite dishes and other sc...

jonathan barnbrook: a cock or two

design | 05.21.10
british graphic designer jonathan barnbrook was commissioned to create the visual identity for the 17th biennale of sydney. he also showed a series of site-specific typographic phrases 'a cock or two'.

hiroshi sugimoto: faraday cage

art | 05.18.10
'faraday cage' is based on sugimoto's recent experiments photographically imaging static electricity on large format film.

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kehinde wiley: the world stage

art

the installation portrays young men of varied ethnic descent living in israel, depicted against backgrounds containing symbols ...

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