I almost forgot about the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art Exhibition called Parallel Collisions. Fortunately, I caught the final day of this exhibition. This exhibition showcases some of the best and bizarre works by Australian artists including paintings, photography, art installations, sculptures and audio/visual presentations. Parallel Collisions sounds contradictory but the artworks display both dischord and harmony unified as a whole. We are accustomed to seeing parallel lines that run side by side yet never meet, but in this exhibition, there are works that has the added dimension of time. This time factor enables things, that were once in a fixed place, to shift postions over time therefore causing a collision and gives new meanings to things over time.
Jump Up is a fascinating and very delicate artwork installation comprising of two thousand glass decanters, bowls, drinking glasses suspended by wires from the ceiling. From different angles, the installation can look like mountain ranges sparkling with icecaps or up-close it may appear like pieces of an intricately designed chandelier. This was designed by Nicholas Folland who was inspired by the idea of Atlantis, the lost mythical city that sunk deep into the ocean, when creating this artwork. He tried to capture the romance and intrigue of exploration, colonisation asscociated with the legend of Atlantis.
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