We are strong, so strong
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Mitch Cairns 2006 Australia
enamel on canvas, ceramic painting: 112 x 112 cm; ceramic pieces: 20 x 20 x 2 cm (each, approx.) Museum of Contemporary Art, gift of Henry Ergas, 2009 © the artist
We Call Them Pirates Out Here: MCA Collection selected by David Elliott
MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art
Wednesday 17 February 2010 to Sunday 21 November 2010
Exhibition
previously on
at
MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art
in
Sydney precinct,
New South Wales,
Australia
The MCA has invited David Elliott, Artistic Director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney, 2010 – ‘THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age’, to select works for this exhibition from the Museum’s collection.
Without distance, art has no authority. Reflecting themes contained in the 17th Biennale of Sydney, this exhibition conveys many ideas of distance, such as critical distance and aesthetic distance, as well as the capacity for wonder — the realisation of a powerful beauty much greater than oneself.
Taking its title from a painting by Aboriginal artist Daniel Boyd, which shows a landing by members of the First Fleet from the perspective of the First Peoples, the exhibition examines how histories of colonisation vary radically according to the perspective of the viewer — a settler to one party was deemed a pirate to those who were occupied.
Selected works engage with such ambiguities and multiple perspectives, and are arranged like a pre-modern museum: a Cabinet of Curiosities.
Artists include Daniel Boyd, Aleks Danko, Newell Harry, Maria Kozic, Vivienne Shark LeWitt and Jenny Watson, as well as relics to be shown from the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles.
Location
MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art140 George Street, The Rocks, Sydney Harbour foreshore at West Circular Quay
The Rocks Precinct
New South Wales
Australia
