POSTED: 19 DECEMBER 2010

Art & Australia gets sculptural for summer

Exploring an art form often underappreciated or overlooked, Art & Australia magazine has used its Summer 2010 issue to look at two modern masters of the medium whose sculptural work traverses the fields of feminism, surrealism and minimalism: Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) and Clement Meadmore (1929–2005).

The issue then unfolds among the stately sheet metal forms in the paddocks of Paul Selwood’s Wollombi studio, and in the galleries of Sydney, where a non-hierarchical new breed of installation artists are playing with sculpture’s earth-bound limitations.

Across the Tasman, Peter Robinson’s polymorphic piles of polystyrene dematerialise before our very eyes in a wondrous, weightless white-out.

Also to be encountered in this issue is an international who’s who of contemporary art, with featured artists including Christian Boltanski, Donald Judd and James Turrell.

The issue features a specially commissioned cover by international artist John Baldessari.

The recipient of the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 2009 Venice Biennale and the subject of a major retrospective at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Baldessari chose to collaborate exclusively with Art & Australia on the eve of his January project for the 2011 Sydney Festival and Kaldor Public Art Projects, Your Name in Lights.

Laid-back and non-hierarchical are two words that crop up a lot in discussions about John Baldessari. His importance as an artist and as a teacher cannot be separated, and nor can the categories of painting, photography, performance and video which he has helped relax over the last century or so.

On a recent visit to Sydney for his Kaldor Public Art Project, Baldessari spoke with Art & Australia's Managing Editor Michael Fitzgerald about the absurdity of art categories and the next creative battles. For further information, please visit Art & Australia.

*Based on media release issued by Art & Australia.

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