British graphic designer and typographer Jonathan Barnbrook was commissioned to create an expansive visual identity for the 17th Biennale of Sydney 2010, including the catalogue. he developed the corporate identity as a modular system so that it could be arranged in various ways
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Drawing inspiration from the work of Harry Smith, Barnbrook has created a unique [...]
Another highlight of the MCA program is a series of sculptural works by renowned French-American artist Louise Bourgeois. For over 60 years, Louise Bourgeois has made sculptures, drawings, paintings and prints that deal with personal memory, emotion and the body.
Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911 and has lived in New York since 1938. Her [...]
In his multifaceted work, Toronto based painter, photographer, performance and video installation artist Kent Monkman deals a table-turning hand on the one-sided histories of Euro-American descent.
The Death of Adonis (2009), one of four new paintings showing at the M.C.A. is an allegory of environmental and colonial despoliation and depicts a buffalo hunting scene. Miss Chief cradles [...]
Melbourne-based artist Daniel Crooks premieres a new video on Cockatoo Island, Static No.12 (seek stillness in movement) (2009–10), which takes as its subject the slow and graceful movements of a man taking tai chi exercise in a Shanghai park.
Crooks’ study of this gentle martial art is a meditation on the movements themselves, as the sequence [...]
“I’m probably the worst director on earth because I keep my mouth shut,” says John Bock – one of the most important German artists of our time. His work oscillates between video, performance and installation art. A creative cycle that is always open-ended – at the “green border”…
German artist John Bock’s film features wild, dandyish [...]
