Thursday, August 29, 2013

Artspace Sydney announces appointment of new director


Alexi Glass-Kantor is the new director of Sydney's Artspace. Since 2006 she has been the director and senior curator of Gertrude Contemporary, one of Australia's longest-running independent art spaces. In 2012 she co-curated Parallel Collisions the 12th Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art with Natasha Bullock and she has worked at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image as well as other independent spaces and festivals.
Image: Alexi Glass-Kantor (left ) with Natasha Bullock

Monday, August 26, 2013

John Reynolds' Vagabondage at Starkwhite


John Reynolds exhibition Vagabondage runs at Starkwhite to 21 September. Beginning with a mini survey of maxi works, the show presents a changing parade of moments in a practice that ranges across painting, drawing, performance and installation.
Image: John Reynolds, Vagabondage, installation view, Starkwhite

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Final days for Clinton Watkins' Frequency Colour


Clinton Watkins' Frequency Colour closes on Saturday at 3pm. You can read an exhibition review here.
Image: Clinton Watkins, Frequency Colour (2013), installations view, Starkwhite

Sydney launches new art fair in September


Tim Etchells, founder of ART HK (now Art Basel Hong Kong), will launch Sydney Contemporary in September. Unlike the Melbourne Art Fair, which has struggled to realise its international aspirations, Sydney Contemporary opens with a mix of 40% international and 60% Australian-based galleries. The new fair also includes two sections developed in partnership with Artspace and 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art - Contemporary Video curated by  Mark Feary and Installation Contemporary curated by Aaron Seeto. The fair runs at Sydney's historic Carriageworks from 19 - 22 September.
Image: Carriageworks, venue for the inaugural edition of Sydney Contemporary

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Auckland Art Fair opens tonight at The Cloud


We are at the Auckland Art Fair this week (Booth 32), which runs at The Cloud on Auckland's waterfront to Sunday 11th. Clinton Watkins' Frequency Colour continues at the gallery from 11am  - 6pm during the week and 11am - 3pm on Saturday. You can read an exhibition review here.
Image: Rebecca Baumann, Automated Colour Field (Variation 1), 2013

Monday, August 5, 2013

This week at Starkwhite


Clinton Watkins' Frequency Colour runs at Starkwhite to 17 August. You can read an exhibition review here.
Image: Clinton Watkins, Frequency Colour (2013), installations view, Starkwhite

Saatchi rolls out a novel auction game plan


Charles Saatchi is planning an auction of 50 of his largest sculptures and installations with Christie's - works so large they will be exhibited in a disused London postal depot instead of Christie's HQ. And it will be an auction with a difference from any conducted by Christie's since the 1970s: no lot will have a reserve price or estimate, an idea reported to have come from Saatchi. Read more...
Image: Charles Saatchi

Saturday, August 3, 2013

Australia launches new award recognising links with Asia


Australia has launched a new award recognising artists and arts organisations engaging with Aisa and strengthening the cultural links between Australia and Asia. 4A Centre for Contemporary Art was in the lineup of award winners for The Floating Eye, the Sydney Pavilion project curated by Aaron Seeto, for the 2013 Shanghai Biennale.
Image: Shaun Gladwell, Pacific Undertow Sequence (Bondi) 2010, video still. Gladwell was one of the six artists with strong connections to Sydney selected for The Floating Eye

Friday, August 2, 2013

Hou Hanru heads to Rome's Maxxi museum


Hou Hanru, curator of the current Auckland Triennial, is the new artistic director of Rome's Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI, Italy's first national museum of contemporary art. He will be responsible for the museum's programming, ranging from architecture and design to contemporary and performance art. Hou takes up his new position in September.
Image: Hou Hanru