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Groundbreaking public art project unveiled in Melbourne
In a new and exciting collaboration with RMIT University, the innovative Kaldor
Public Art Projects has brought Scottish artist Martin Boyce out to Australia with a
new major work designed for Melbourne.
Media are invited to meet the artist and preview his striking work at RMIT’s historic
Alumni Courtyard, next to the Old Melbourne Gaol, from 10am on Tuesday, 21
October.
Mr Boyce, who was recently chosen to represent Scotland at the 2009 Venice
Biennale, has selected the historically rich courtyard as the site for his Kaldor
Public Art Project artwork, “We are Shipwrecked and Landlocked”.
This rare inner-city open space has become a Modernist-inspired garden of
abstract tree forms constructed from the same geometric element that has
appeared in many of his recent projects.
Mr Boyce’s structures create an atmospheric mise-en-scene of narrative fragments
abstracted from familiar social spaces, such as car parks and underpasses.
“RMIT University’s Alumni Courtyard, next to the Old Melbourne Gaol, is a
wonderfully rich and layered site,” he said.
“It has proved to be the perfect situation to introduce this new ‘landscape’ through
the intervention of this sculptural work.
“Having first visited 10 years ago, Melbourne has always been a special place for
me. It’s a great honour to be part of the lineage of Kaldor Public Art Projects and
to be in Melbourne working on a project of this scale at RMIT University.”
For 40 years Kaldor Public Art Projects has brought influential and innovative
international artists to Australia including: le Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s
unforgettable wrapped coastline (1969) and Jeff Koon’s now iconic puppy outside
the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (1995).
Photo Opportunity
What: Meet the artist and preview the artwork at the launch of Martin Boyce
Kaldor Public Art Project at RMIT.
When: Tuesday, 21 October 2008, 10am to 12pm.
Where: RMIT Alumni Courtyard, RMIT University, entry next to Old Melbourne
Gaol, Russell Street
For media enquiries: RMIT University Media and Communications, Deborah
Sippitts (03) 9925 5047 or 0400 844 075.
20 October, 2008
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