IN REVIEW
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M lb Melbourne N Now iis the h largest l single exhibition ever presented by the National Gallery of Victoria. Crowds have been flocking to the event with installations in both the National Gallery of Victoria International and the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square. text Jan Henderson
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Above left—Allona Goren, play S1 brooch 2011 Collection of the artist © Allona Goren Photo: Jeremy Dillion
Above—Ricardo Idagl False evidence appearing real 2013 © Ricardo Idagi, courtesy Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
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IN REVIEW
Cai Guo-Qiang: Falling Back to Earth, currently exhibited at GOMA Queensland is an immersive experiential delight that coddles the audience just long enough for the artist’s concerns to slip into the collective psyche.
text Adrienne Hughes photography Natasha Harth
Above—Cai Guo-Qiang. China b. 1957. Heritage 2013 99 life-sized replicas of animals, water, sand, drip mechanism. Installed dimensions variable. Commissioned for the exhibition Falling Back to Earth, 2013. Proposed for the Queensland Art Gallery Collection with funds from the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Diversity Foundation through and with the assistance of the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation Photograph: Natasha Harth, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
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DISCO U RSE
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in in 1961 Patricia Urquiola is an architect a student of Achille Castiglioni and an exceptional designer. When recently in Sydney to celebrate Space’s 20th birthday and the launch of the new range for Kartell, she spoke with Gillian Serisier.
text Gillian Serisier photography courtesy of Space
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PROJECT
location Melbourne, Australia project design Mim Design Little Group text Jan Henderson photography 62 80 Peter Clarke
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Paradise at work When beauty and sophistication come together in a project the designer has achieved the brief. Miriam Fanning and Lauren Foy of Mim Design have done just this with a perfect marriage of style, substance and complexity in their design for the Little Group offices.
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location Melbourne, Australia design Elenberg Fraser project Graduate School A. Baker text Annie Reid photography 70 80 Peter Clarke
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Sweetly Now Annie Reid takes a sticky stroll through the magical confection that is Elenberg Fraser’s Zumbo Melbourne.
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location Canberra, Australia project design DesignOfďŹ ce A. Baker text Gillian Serisier photography 78 80 Scottie Cameron
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Phoenix from the flames Rarely can this term be used without denoting a metaphor, and while A. Baker quite literally has come from flames, it is also a metaphor for an emerging spirit of design in our nation’s capital.
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