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2009Tatzu Nishi
Download education notes (PDF 7pp) Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. Visit the Adobe website to download a free copy. I’m not interested in art for experts. I want art to come to the people, to involve them in it, and this doesn’t happen in the gallery space. Tatzu Nishi quoted in Laura Allsop, ‘Outside In: Nishi Tatzu’, Art Review, no 13 This manipulative recontextualisation quotes and ironises architectural realities, and in this way creates thoroughly typical spatial feelings divorced from their normal perceptual context. Dr Renate Goldmann, Köln Skulptur 5, Stiftung Skulpturenpark, Cologne 2009 |  Two enormous equestrian bronzes, Offerings of peace and Offerings of war created by the English sculptor Gilbert Bayes in 1923, stand like dignified sentinels beside the honey-coloured steps and the stately columns of the Art Gallery of NSW. For his Kaldor project, which he has titled War and peace and in between, Tatzu Nishi has constructed a temporary room around each of these figures. The public enter the elevated rooms via ramps constructed between the top step of the Gallery and Nishi’s structures. After passing through a lobby, they find themselves in a domestic living room in the case of ‘Peace’ and a bedroom for ‘War’. Everything seems completely normal except that parts of a giant horse and rider are wedged into the cabinet in the living room or seemingly wade through the snowdrift of sheets in the bedroom. A kind of Prince Charming arriving on his bronze charger? Or a warrior bringing his ambivalent spoils? Either way, a new eye-popping context equals a new meaning. Read more about Tatzu Nishi. External view of Tatzu Nishi’s War and peace and in between 2009. Photo Carley Wright, Art Gallery of NSW. | WORLD EVENTSBarack Obama inaugurated as the 44th, and first African-American, US President Icelandic banking system collapses, toppling the government Russian and US satellites collide over Siberia UNESCO launches the World Digital Library Pop icon Michael Jackson dies Bushfires in Victoria kill 173 people and leave 7500 homeless Swine flu becomes the world’s first influenza pandemic in 40 years Tim Winton wins his fourth Miles Franklin Award for the novel Breath Guy Maestri wins the Archibald Prize for his portrait of Indigenous musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu 19th Kaldor project Tatzu Nishi transforms equestrian sculptures on Art Gallery Road, outside the Art Gallery of NSW, for his work War and peace and in between | ||
