while we’re waiting for the announcement of Canberra’s Northbourne Mounument here’s a stunning echo of Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the IIIrd International. This version of a work by Ai Weiwei titled Chandelier, 2002 (spotted in the SMH Good Weekend’s publicity for his show at the Campbelltown Arts Centre) is unfortunately not in the show. Apparently Chandelier is an early version of “Working Progress (Fountain of Light)” 2007, here shown at the Tate Liverpool. We wish.
Want to go deeper? In addition to the exhibition at CAC curated by Charles Merewether (past director of the Biennale of Sydney), there is another show at Sherman, and a new book by CM himself. Listen to CM and AW on Artworks, with Amanda Smith. For more chandeliers, of a different kind, go here.
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1 Christine James // May 4, 2008 at 7:50 am
Here’s hoping we don’t get WB Griffin’s head, looking for Marion!
2 The statuesque chandelier… « glass central canberra // May 5, 2008 at 10:34 pm
[...] For those wishing to observe the countdown, keep an eye on http://artwranglers.com.au/feel-a-monument-coming-on/. [...]
3 Michael Rakowitz speaks for himself… // Jun 24, 2008 at 4:54 am
[...] (see also the Wikipedia entry) a version of which we’ve just seen in the context of the Ai Wei Wei show. This is the latest in a long string of reconstructions of this monument, but unfortunately [...]
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