BELGIUM | VISUAL ARTS
MELBOURNE FESTIVAL AND
NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA PRESENT
GOLDEN MIRROR
CAROUSEL
CARSTEN HÖLLER
Image: Carsten Höller, Golden Mirror Carousel, 2014.
Courtesy Gagosian Gallery
“An artist who
is part science,
part circus and
altogether unique.”
ART IN AMERICA
NGV INTERNATIONAL
Fri 10 Oct – Mar 2015
10am – 5pm
Closed Tue 14 Oct
FREE
melbournefestival.com.au/golden
WORLD PREMIERE
Artist Carsten Höller works to
turn reality on its head, creating
situations through which we can
reimagine how we move through
the world and reconsider our
place in it. Drawing on social
spaces outside the museum, such
as the amusement park, zoo, or
playground, the interactions that
Höller proposes through objects
and situations open up a range
of new and unexpected sensory
revelations in art.
Underscoring this year’s microtheme of circus, the spectacular
life-size Golden Mirror Carousel
offers visitors to Federation Court
a powerfully different physical
and mental encounter than its
traditional fairground counterpart.
With each slow turn, participants
are carried further into a gleaming,
gilded looking-glass reflection, a
step and a world away.
With the assistance of Gagosian Gallery.
MEET THE ARTIST – FREE
Sun 12 Oct at 5.30pm
NGV INTERNATIONAL,
GREAT HALL
Carsten Höller appears in
conversation with Louise Neri,
Melbourne Festival Creative
Associate – Visual Arts, and NGV
contemporary art curator Simon
Maidment.
RSVP with ‘Golden’ in the subject
line to [email protected]
melbournefestival.com.au
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