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Sculpture on the Edge: breaking news

March 14th, 2009 · 3 Comments

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Yesterday ArtWranglers paid a lighting visit to Bermagui’s annual Sculpture on the Edge, and here’s the verdict of the drive-home jury: this furry “falling man” detail is from the work Pitch by Chloe Bussenschutt. While it may have been the least “sculptural” work in the show by traditional criteria, somehow its persuasive three dimensional illusionism and unlikely materials (carpet remnants, some branded “Tate Gallery”) has remained in our memory.

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Elsewhere the good Burghers of Bermagui paid not the slightest attention to this flash (flesh) event by the installation artist Alice Fresco, who comandeers vacant plinths at events such as this. This work, Les Fillettes Mignons, is characteristic of Alice’s interventionist aesthetic.

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In more relaxed mode, Suzie Bell and Berndt Weiss discovered this whimsical work Another famous cast for that Siren! by the photographer Wesley Stacey. If Wes was attempting to lure these water nymphs, clearly he was looking in the wrong direction! More tomorrow!

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3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 megxx // Mar 17, 2009 at 5:51 am

    Jeez – that ‘Fillettes Mignon’ is rather riske (with an accent), Nige!! You’ll have the Feral Femmes down on you next…

  • 2 Nigel // Mar 17, 2009 at 11:53 am

    The Misses Gilbert and George (in their heritage costumes)? Mainstream, if not exactly Main Street…

  • 3 Back to Sculpture on the Edge… « glass central canberra // Mar 18, 2009 at 6:50 am

    [...] this year – not the least courtesy of Nigel’s carload of fillettes (see ArtWranglers’ breaking news post.) And we’d have to concur with him that apart from Randall Sinnamon’s marvellous [...]

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