Saw 3 of the inner city Sydney-based Biennale exhibitions this week.
First I saw the White Bay Power Station.
The venue! this is the first time i’d been there (i missed it last Biennale). I took more photos of the building and its bits than I did of the art, but i did love the Nigerian broomsticks and ploughs. And the Wes Andersen style videos about children in Mining (Mineur mineur) – The beauty of it hooked me in and then i saw the message. I’m not a fan of messages that shout at me. This one sneaks up on you. Also liked the and the aluminium panels etched to look like snake skins.
Cathie and I saw the Chau Chak Wing exhibition on Tuesday. I took no photos it turns out!
Then AGNSW yesterday: Yaritji Tingila Young’s beautiful work (which resembled in my mind John Olsen’s Five Bells, or did his resemble theirs?). The colours – oranges and purples and golds – just really work for me.
I also photographed a few which are possibly from the permanent collection (the new thing seems to be to display permanent collection amongst the Biennale stuff – i saw this in Melbourne a while back). Louis Fratino’s April just appealed because it had a Stuart Davis feel to it, while staying abstract – it seemed like the sort of image I could make, and I put it in my “make this” pile!
Angela Brennan’s How and apple falls and the universe expands was also more because I was inspired to do something big like it – and the blues resonated with me.
