Turbulence & Transcendence – Biennale of Sydney: The First 50 Years by Brook Turner.
Written by Brook Turner, published by Black Inc., and commissioned by Anita and Luca Belgiorno-Nettis, Turbulence & Transcendence is a vivid history of the Biennale of Sydney’s first 50 years, presented in a limited edition volume.
When the Biennale of Sydney was founded in 1973, it was one of only three such events in the world. It is now the longest-running biennale in the Asia-Pacific region, and one of the leading contemporary art events in the world.
This history of the first fifty years of the Biennale chronicles the vision and ambition of the organisation, as well as the stumbles and triumphs. It tells the story of half a century of ground-breaking art and of the city that both shaped this event – and has been shaped by it.
‘This is the story of how an Italian immigrant arrived in a country seen by many of his peers as a wasteland and seized on an idea entirely of its time to help erase the distance between Australia and the world, the past and the future. And of how, from the very start, that idea proved so necessary, and inconvenient, that someone was usually trying to stop it or take it over, change its nature or its purpose.’
This is a limited-edition volume – only 500 copies printed. At over 400 pages, elegantly bound in Italian cloth and printed on premium paper in Italy, Turbulence & Transcendence is a work of art.
Turbulence & Transcendence will be released on 25 February, and will sell quickly. We invite you to pre-order your copy today to avoid missing out.
$50 from each volume sold via the button below will be donated to the Biennale of Sydney.
RRP: $299 AUD
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