Sculpture by the Sea
Sculpture by the Sea in Sydney is Australia's largest temporary exhibition of sculpture in public spaces. It has been taking place every year since 1997 on the coastline of the Bondi to Tamarama Coastal Walk and shows around 100 works of art by national and international sculptors, including a German artist. The sculpture path is described in the German press as the world's largest outdoor exhibition of its kind.
history
David Handley came up with the idea for organizing Sculpture by the Sea in the 1990s. The first exhibition on Bondi Beach took place in 1997 for one day and was attended by 25.00 spectators. In 1998, the Sydney Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games supported five sculptures of the Sculpture by the Sea during the 1998 Olympic Arts Festival with 260 sculptures in five Australian locations Darwin , Noosa , Albany , Bondi and on the Tasman Peninsula . This also led to a breakthrough for the Sydney event. In 2005 it was held for the first time under the same title in Cottesloe , a suburb of Perth in Western Australia , and took place in March 2015 for the eleventh time with works by 70 artists. In 2009, Aarhus City Council in Denmark held a themed exhibition entitled Sculpture by the Sea Aarhus for the first time outside of Australia. It takes place in Denmark every two years and in 2015 for the fourth time.
Sydney 2014, 2016
In 2014 there were 109 sculptures on the coastline over a distance of two kilometers. The route led from Bondi Beach to Tamarama Beach past exhibits by artists from Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Germany, Sweden, Spain and the USA. In the past few years, up to 500,000 visitors came there. This year, the German sculptor involved Jörg Plickat from Hamburg with the plastic dialogue , symbolized by two granite - steles .
In October 2016 there was this open-air exhibition again on the long stretch of beach up to the cliffs with more than 100 works of art. Among other things, the Chinese artist Zhou Tengxiaoby showed the oversized work Wave Wall , consisting of nine opposing and vertically toothed flexible rods on which a light shuttle lies lengthways. Around 520,000 visitors to the festival were counted last year.
Web links
- Pictures of the Olympic Art Festival ( Memento from April 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Art exhibition on Bondi Beach: The sand in the pan is going crazy , on October 23, 2014 on spiegel.de, accessed on October 25, 2014.
- ↑ Sculpture by the Sea's David Handley's next trick , accessed October 25, 2014.
- ↑ History ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed October 25, 2014.
- ↑ 11th Annual Cottesloe Exebition ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed October 24, 2014.
- ↑ Sculpture by the Sea June 1, 2015 - July 1, 2015 (Danish), accessed on October 23, 2014.
- ↑ 18th Annual Bondi Exhibition ( memento of October 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on October 23, 2014.
- ^ Art on the beach in Australia. In: Berliner Zeitung . October 25, 2016, picture and text for the work Wave Wall by the Chinese artist Zhou Tengxiaoby, p. 24.
