The world’s largest annual outdoor sculpture exhibition Sculpture by the Sea in Sydney, is back again for a 17th year. At the beginning of the summer, the Australian city customizes her famous beaches with around one hundred giant sculptures created by local and international artists. The exhibition is staged along the Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk where art and natural landscape amaze citizens and tourists. A nice enterprise from this country even if the mega show is not everyone’s liking. Photographs & report by Manon Gorgé
SCULPTURE BY THE SEA
Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk
Sydney, Australia 24 October – 10 November 2013
Glebe Markets Sydney — this market is one of Sydney’s most well known Saturday markets with diversity, character and style. Drop into Glebe Markets and find a treasure or sample our gourmet foods while relaxing on the lawn and listening to the live bands. In days when recycling is a way of life, Glebe is a great place to find recycled fashion items, CDs, books… You never know what treasures your rummaging fingers may turn up. Open every Saturday from 10am to 4pm, explore and lose yourself at Glebe Markets for a day. Text & report by Manon Gorgé
MØ Goodgod Club… Danish songstress MØ has headed to Australia for the very first time to perform an exceptionally intimate and exclusive set at renowned Sydney venue Good God Small Club. Recently discovered in France with her last single XXX 88 featuring the famous producer Diplo. Her incredible voice heated up the Australian city during one night as she is currently conquering overseas. Photos by Manon Gorgé
GoodGod Small Club
Sydney Tuesday 29 October
More on MØ… Aka Karen Marie Ørsted landed on everyone’s radar when she posted the emotive, lush synthscapes of ‘Maiden’ online in May 2012, and followed up with a stunning turn at CMJ in New York in the autumn. Likened to the sounds of Grimes meets Lykke Li, MØ was soon to be tipped by the likes of Pitchfork, The Guardian, The Line of Best Fit and NME… they all voted onto the longlist of the Blog Sound of 2013 (The Blog Sound poll list was first published last year and its participating voters are solely UK music bloggers. The concept of the poll wasn’t to criticise the established BBC Sound of list (which is due next Monday), but simply an experiment to see if UK music bloggers could come up with its own list of emerging artists that was representative of some of their community…
Serve the people/White Rabbit Gallery
The White Rabbit Collection is one of the world’s largest and most significant collections of contemporary Chinese art. Founded by Kerr Neilson and Judith Neilson, it focuses on works produced after year 2000.
A slogan of the 1966/76 Cultural Revolution “Serve the People” meant serving the great cause of socialism. Artists were crucial to that effort, but they had to make the right kinds of art: Soviet-style socialist realism or ink painting on revolutionary themes. All other art forms, Western or Chinese were banned and those who dared to practise them were vilified as capitalist-roaders and traitors. The opening up that began in the 80’s led to a more expansive view of artists’ role : now they would serve the people by boosting China’s national image and income. This gallery is now an essential cultural point of Sydney where most of the impressive chinese art is showing but also a quiet place to discover and taste a wide range of the finest Chinese teas. Photos by Manon Gorgé
SERVE THE PEOPLE
30 Balfour St
Chippendale NSW 2008, Australia 30 August 2013—2 February 2014 WWW.WHITERABBITCOLLECTION.ORG
A l’occasion du festival de photographie à Sydney Head on, l’agence Magnum a présenté quelques magnifiques photographies prises par les plus grands photographes de l’agence sur les tournages de films cultes. Ainsi, Elliot Erwitt, Bruce Davidson, Inge Morath, Dennis Stock, Nicolas Tikhomiroff, Burt Glinn, W Eugene Smith, Erich Lessing et Jean Gaumy dévoilent des portraits d’acteurs majeurs dans les rôles qui ont marqué l’histoire du cinéma. Une exposition qui regorge de talent où l’association acteurs, photographes et réalisateurs a permis de mettre au jour ces fabuleux clichés. L’oeil du photographe croise celui du cinéaste qui invente celui de l’acteur. Des instants figés qui racontent une histoire à tiroir et qui témoignent d’une époque et d’un art…
HEAD ON FESTIVAL — AGENCE MAGNUM ONE SET The State Library of NSW
Macquarie St, Sydney
Australie 17 Mai- 23 Juin 2013
