Look - Sydney Art Galleries
People who say that there is no such thing as bad art are lying. LOOK takes an objective view of the subjective world and, with a free drink in our hand, guides you through Sydney's best galleries and art exhibitions. From institutions to artist-run initiatives, installation to illustration, photography to painting, LOOK is an ongoing document of Sydney's ever engaging and growing arts culture.
Mycology by Lyn & Tony
Mushrooms, nudes, earth, cutlery, a stairwell, wood, time, the sublime, photography, transcendence, demise. Mycology by Lyn & Tony is a forest cult idea and artistic field study into the biological branch concerned with fungi.
Their living dioramas - spotted along a descending stairwell - will introduce The Wardian Case Gallery, a space fascinated with the strange relationships between humans and plants.
Dancing Mountain Issue One
If you were ever subjected to a slide show back when it involved a mechanical projector and a dark lounge room, then the idea of a whole book of travel photos might not appeal to you. Luckily for everyone, online collaborative photo book Dancing Mountain doesn't involve a boring couple and their boring photos in front of a boring landmark, nor the frightening reality of four walls with nowhere to run.
Built in Wardrobes
Michelle Hanlin may fool you with her kinder sherbet colour palette but it's important you realise she is performing a particularly good assault of the contemporary monument.
If you were to term it in music, her works (sculptural and painted still lifes, busts and figures on ornamental plinths) are much like Sonic Youth appropriating Debussy with a spoken word introduction from the local St Vinnies clerk.
Art Month
You know what? There's way too much great stuff in Art Month to list here. Check out the schedule. Over 70 galleries are participating, and there are over 140 events - most of them free. If you can't find something that grabs your interest, you truly are a jaded douchebag.
Might we suggest:
1) Artist displays at Fairfax and Roberts (Michael Zavros), The Commons (Lyn and Tony, 24-28 March) and both Incu stores (Tara Marynowsky, Paddington; Kate Rohde, CBD).
That other place - Zoe McMahon
Zoe McMahon's is an instinctual approach to photography. She doesn't plan, she waits and she looks and she travels. And every so often she finds a space that feels familiar, a space that induces tenderness, a space that speaks, and she doesn't photograph it so much as have a brief, heart wrenching affair with it.
In the World of Things Without Weight
Jodee Knowles is the shiz! I mean this Perth minx/painter's stock response to the ‘unsatisfactory' is "I'd rather suck Bigfoot's dick!" If you get her tipsy she may even confess her grand ambition to be in the top ten artists working in the US. By. Age. Thirty. She also owes me fifteen bucks.
Tiny Stadiums Festival
Unlike that tiny tupperware on a keychain and tiny hot dog eraser you used to own, Tiny Stadiums festival is useful - and strong, like an ant.
It's useful in helping you eyeball new experiences and generate fun cells. It's strong in that it carries big ideas on its back and serves them up for a group feeding.
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