2008 Festival Poster
In 2008 we celebrate the artwork of a South Australian visual artist for the Festival’s ‘look’. Our motto, What are you seeing? begins with our cover design – the ambiguous, biomorphic sculpture by Michael Kutschbach (go, you little dynamo, go!). After a tradition of a two-dimensional image representing the Festival, we take you for the first time into the third dimension with a sculptural object to surprise, confound and delight.
"I like the idea of the sculpture being thought of as a peculiar kind of Alien. An Alien that is fresh and new to this city, yet at the same time entirely formed by it and its people.
The work is essentially intended as a very tactile object whose final form is the result of an attempt to embody, in abstract formal terms, the strength, dynamism, beauty, confidence and playfulness that will be the upcoming 2008 Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts.
It is a friendly and uncertain form designed to appeal directly to the viewer's senses, to deliberately entice the viewer to come closer and to ask what it is and what it might be doing here. This positive uncertainty and desired curiosity runs through the Festival's theme of What are you seeing?"
Michael Kutschbach
go, you little dynamo, go! 2007 - by Michael Kutschbach
Courtesy Greenaway Art Gallery.
Buy your own artwork
go, you little dynamo, go! has been fabricated in the same way as a luxury car, only 10 are being made, each uniquely coloured. Standing 1.8m in height, this work of art signals a new level of production for one of Australia's emerging art stars. Priced at $12,500 each, read more on www.greenaway.com.auor contact Paul Greenaway on ph 0419 034 186, ph (08) 8362 6354 or email gag@greenaway.com.au to discuss your purchase.
