MECHANICS OF ADAPTION
Presented by Metro Arts and Brisbane Festival
Brisbane’s hottest contemporary artists give up-cycling new meaning in this innovative exhibition.
In 1913 Marcel Duchamp created the work Bicycle Wheel, a work that changed the course of contemporary art by elevating ordinary objects to the status of art.
In 2021, after 10 successful years and four million trips, the Brisbane CityCycle program is ending. In a fascinating new Metro Arts Commission, our retired CityCycles are reimagined by artists Ross Manning, Kinly Grey, Susan Hawkins, Aishla Manning and Sarah Poulgrain, in collaboration with young people through Traction.
The pieces will be shown across Metro Arts’ galleries with an additional large-scale outdoor temporary artwork in the surrounding area, as a reflection of both art history and the urgent issues of the need for environmental awareness and sustainability.
DATES
Fri 3 – Sun 26 Sep, 2021
OPENING EVENT
Sat 4 Sep, 4pm
VENUE
Metro Arts Gallery One, Gallery Two & Mollison Green at West Village.
TICKETS
FREE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Brisbane Festival is an initiative of the Queensland Government and Brisbane City Council. This project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
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