Water-hole at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art - Southbank
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From 2008/12/22
To 2009/03/01
Swiss artists Gerda Steiner and J rg Lenzlinger will bring their fairy-tale world to Australia when they create a water-hole in Melbourne s Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.
Gerda Steiner and J rg Lenzlinger create site-specific fantasias and interactive wonderlands that are an adaptation of nature through synthesis.
The pair, who have collaborated since 1997 and are known as being among the most successful of contemporary Swiss artists, bring together made and found objects to create extravagant, magical installations that are full of fantasy, allegory and beauty.
Webs of falling gardens, caves for hermetic saints, taxidermied animals and insects, glistening ponds of motor oil and flowing streams of chemicals come together to create large-scale stories, which are told with a playful charm and a strong sense of irony. Their work deals with opposites life and death, good and evil, hope and despair.
At ACCA, they will create an artificial environment of little miracles and zoological happenings which will culminate as a spectacular thesis on the environment: its peril and beauty. In this world premier commission, visitors will enter into a landscape of organic and inorganic matter.
