We Call Them Pirates Out Here
17 Feb - 21 Nov 2010
© Daniel Boyd
We Call Them Pirates Out Here 2006
oil on canvas
226.5 x 275 cm
Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased with funds provided by the Coe and Mordant families, 2006
We Call Them Pirates Out Here 2006
oil on canvas
226.5 x 275 cm
Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased with funds provided by the Coe and Mordant families, 2006
WE CALL THEM PIRATES OUT HERE
MCA Collection selected by David Elliott
17 FEBRUARY - 21 NOVEMBER 2010
The MCA has invited David Elliott, Artistic Director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney, 2010 – ‘THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age’, to select works for this exhibition from the Museum’s collection.
Without distance, art has no authority. Reflecting themes contained in the 17th Biennale of Sydney, this exhibition conveys many ideas of distance, such as critical distance and aesthetic distance, as well as the capacity for wonder — the realisation of a powerful beauty much greater than oneself.
Taking its title from a painting by Aboriginal artist Daniel Boyd, which shows a landing by members of the First Fleet from the perspective of the First Peoples, the exhibition examines how histories of colonisation vary radically according to the perspective of the viewer — a settler to one party was deemed a pirate to those who were occupied.
Selected works engage with such ambiguities and multiple perspectives, and are arranged like a pre-modern museum: a Cabinet of Curiosities.
Artists include Daniel Boyd, Aleks Danko, Newell Harry, Maria Kozic, Vivienne Shark LeWitt and Jenny Watson, as well as relics to be shown from the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles.
MCA Collection selected by David Elliott
17 FEBRUARY - 21 NOVEMBER 2010
The MCA has invited David Elliott, Artistic Director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney, 2010 – ‘THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age’, to select works for this exhibition from the Museum’s collection.
Without distance, art has no authority. Reflecting themes contained in the 17th Biennale of Sydney, this exhibition conveys many ideas of distance, such as critical distance and aesthetic distance, as well as the capacity for wonder — the realisation of a powerful beauty much greater than oneself.
Taking its title from a painting by Aboriginal artist Daniel Boyd, which shows a landing by members of the First Fleet from the perspective of the First Peoples, the exhibition examines how histories of colonisation vary radically according to the perspective of the viewer — a settler to one party was deemed a pirate to those who were occupied.
Selected works engage with such ambiguities and multiple perspectives, and are arranged like a pre-modern museum: a Cabinet of Curiosities.
Artists include Daniel Boyd, Aleks Danko, Newell Harry, Maria Kozic, Vivienne Shark LeWitt and Jenny Watson, as well as relics to be shown from the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles.