Five No-Holds-Barred New Art Exhibitions to See in November
Intergalactic travel, 700kg of foam and a serious examination into tripping — and that's just at the first venue.
Five No-Holds-Barred New Art Exhibitions to See in November
Intergalactic travel, 700kg of foam and a serious examination into tripping — and that's just at the first venue.
Anything can happen in art in November. There's colour, movement and bold statements aplenty. Just don't get distracted and miss the month's major work from Kaldor Public Art Projects. It's highly revealing.
Top image: Rosie Deacon live art at Sydney Contemporary 2015.
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Foam ain’t just for music festivals and kids’ parties. Artist Rosie Deacon will be staging a celebration of this wondrously fluffy substance at firstdraft this month. Her installation, featuring 700 kilograms of “Fun Foam”, will be a spectacle to behold. Deacon works with craft materials that are often derided and unappreciated within the world of contemporary art. She constructs fantastical sculptures, performances and installations from discount store goodies: synthetic eyelashes, glittery stickers, acrylic paint and clay. In addition to this exhibition, you can see Elena Papanikolakis’ visual exploration into “tripping” as woven together through memory and imagination and As If Light Could Be Translated from collective Art Proper, which will be an astrological investigation into constellations, space and the science of stars.
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This show at the Art Gallery of NSW’s Yiribana Gallery will illuminate a specific strand of Koori art practice — the use of line by male artists. The historical scope of artists represented will be drawn from pre-contact to today and will include William Barak, Tommy McRae, Roy Kennedy, HJ Wedge, Steaphan Paton and Reko Rennie. Showcasing a variety of materials – from shields through to paintings – Murrywaygu will examine the cultural evolution of line and its myriad applications.
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This end-of-year show at one of Sydney’s best galleries for contemporary photography features an all-star list of artists. Feast will present work from Anne Ferran, Chris Fortescue, Narelle Autio, Polixeni Papapetrou, Pat Brassington, Trent Parke, Justine Varga and more. Many of these contemporary artists are represented in major collections across Australia. Grouping together some of our finest talent, this photographic banquet ought to stimulate your cultural senses and lure you into the holiday season.
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Future Archaeology, opening just shy of November, is an exciting showcase of work from early and mid-career artists. Future Archaeology pinpoints moments of disruption, taking the somewhat antiquated discipline of archaeology and transforming it into a complex picture of social and political movements throughout Asia and the Middle East. The big themes driving this show are migration, cultural displacement and appropriation. Future Archaeology will present work from Léuli Eshraghi, Nathan Beard, Deanna Hitti, Abdullah M.I. Syed, Andy Mullen, and Claudia Nicholson. Each artist will grapple with a unique sociopolitical phenomenon, whether it is the widespread impact of deforestation in Central America of the fraught concept of masculinity in Pakistan. One of the aims of the exhibition is to rouse cross-cultural and transnational conversation.
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Kaldor project 31 — a tough follow-up to Marina Abramovic: In Residence — promises cutting-edge choreography from French artist Xavier Le Roy. This ambitious project will unfold in three parts at Carriageworks and will be realised through the assistance of artistic collaborator Scarlet Yu and a group of 18 Australian performers. Self Unfinished is Le Roy’s seminal solo performance, which premiered in 1998. Unlike his later projects, this work was designed for a theatre space and has received acclaim for reconfiguring the relationship between audience and performer. You can also see two sides of Temporary Title – the rehearsals and the final product. Spoiler: everyone will be in the nude for the latter. Don’t let that deter you though. This piece will be an exploration of not quite human forms, testing the boundaries between the strange and the familiar.
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