EXHIBITION: KALDOR PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
Can’t bring art to your home? Bring home to your art. Tatzu Nishi’s War and Peace and in Between sees the artist engulfing Gilbert Bayes’ bronze equestrian statues The Offering of War and The Offering of Peace in makeshift domestic rooms. Nishi’s domestic spaces join a rich 40 year tradition of public art begun by John Kaldor, who invited Christo and Jeanne-Claude to wrap two and a half kilometres of Little Bay’s coastline in fabric. From these tactile beginnings sprung a series of public art projects, including Gilbert and George’s The Singing Sculpture, Jeff Koons’ Puppy and Gregor Schneider’s Cells on Bondi Beach. Visitors to War and Peace and in Between will be able to step into a perfectly reconstructed bedroom or living room, complete with windows, carpets, furnishings, and of course the invaluable sculptural centrepieces, which appear surreal and disproportionate in their new settings. The spaces are outside the Art Gallery of New South Wales now, inviting their guests to step inside and check out some old sculptures in some very new ways.
Until Feb 14, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery Road, The Domain, 9225 1744 or artgallery.nsw.gov.au
