Go East: The Gene and Brian Sherman Contemporary Asian Art Collection

Overview

Gene and Brian Sherman are putting their personal collection before public eyes for the first time in an exhibition titled Go East. Sprawling across both the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, the show features pieces from China, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet and Vietnam.

At SCAF, you'll be able to read into 20th-century Chinese history as experienced personally, thanks to Yang Zhichao's epic installation Chinese Bible (2009), which is made up of 3,000 actual diaries. Meanwhile, the AGNSW entrance court will be filled with bone-shaped letters, communicating the speech that Gandhi's delivered the night before his legendary Salt March in 1930. It's the creation of Jitish Kallat and is titled Public Notice 2 (2007).

Ai Weiwei, Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Daido Moriyama, Bharti Kher, Shigeyuki Kihara, Lin Tianmiao, Dinh Q. Le, along with eight other artists will also feature. Plus, there'll be talks, forums and literary events — at both the AGNSW's Art After Hours, held on Wednesday nights, and SCAF.