Decorative Art

Remember when Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped Sydney's Little Bay in 1969? Me either, but apparently that was the first Kaldor Project. This year Sydney celebrates the 19th project of its kind with Tatzu Nishi's War and Peace and In Between 2009, a major intervention outside the New South Wales Gallery. Nishi takes two well-known public sculptures by the English sculptor Gilbert Bayes and builds rooms around them -- a bedroom and a living room, to be exact. The sculpture are each equestrian in nature -- a horse and its rider. In the bedroom, Nishi turns the everyday on its head making the horse step up onto a double bed. In the living room, a giant horses head is hidden in the TV cabinet and the rider's head sits on the coffee table. Walk back down the ramp and view the installation from afar to notice the bodies of horse and rider beneath the structure. Out of place, out of scale and pure genius. Catch it up until February 14, 2010 at Sydney's New South Wales Gallery.