closes Sunday 7 September 2008
There are just 5 days of Sydney Biennale remaining, and the trip out to Cockatoo Island is well worth taking if you haven't already. Free ferries leave hourly from in front of the MCA at Circular Quay, stopping at Wharf 2/3, and take about 30 minutes. Allow 3 hours on site. It's worth it for the William Kentridge rooms alone. LF thinks he may be the most intersting artist in the world today - 'son et lumiere' at its most basic, and magical. Mike Parr's whole block (appropriately the old Weapons Workshops) retrospective of video/film works is stunningly well conceived, whatever you think of the individual works, exhuding a dank and dangerous aura, complete with reeking buckets of urine, natch. Vernon Ah Kee's graffitti'd washroom explores parallel territory, and his large pencil portraits on canvas, in one of the turbine halls, have a quiet majesty. Jannis Kounellis' nearby sails installation is one of the few works that really feels 'site-specific', but apart from some boring videos, the standard is high throughout. If you've done no Biennale this year, then skip the MCA and AGNSW and Get On that Boat!
Some impressionistic images, ©Le Flaneur 2008.
Courtesy the artists and Biennale of Sydney
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