Les Idoles
Donna Marcus
Up Late
Friday 1 August
Tickets are $20 (includes exhibition entry) and are available through qtix or phone 136 246 (booking fees apply).
Les Idoles: '60s French (Sydney) (from 7.00pm)
Hot on the heels of ‘Le One Night Stand’ in New York and ‘Babypop’ in Sydney, DJs Kurac and Ringfinger will haul their crates of continental vinyl to Picasso Up Late for a night of 60s French cool.
Les Idoles will feature the sounds of French pop idols Brigitte Bardot, Serge Gainsbourg, France Gall, Jacques Dutronc, Francoise Hardy, Johnny Hallyday, Michel Polnareff and many, many more.
Les Idoles presents a complete happening of unique visuals and sounds at this special Up Late event that only the Continent of the sixties could have produced!
Show & tell talk: Donna Marcus
Donna Marcus’s sculptural work starts in the wastelands of the scrapyard, the well-named opportunity shop, garage sales and fêtes along the eastern seaboard of Australia and beyond. Her constant trawling has generated the necessary ‘critical mass’ of aluminum teapots, colanders, steamers, cake tins, pudding bowls, anodised saucepan lids, beakers, trays and sink sieves. Some of these objects are too unique to go into art production and have become part of the 'aluminium museum' that is currently uncatalogued in several cardboard boxes in her studio.
Marcus is included in the forthcoming exhibition 'Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary', the inaugural show for the Museum of Art and Design in New York (September 2008). She is also currently working on a public art work that requires the collection of 3500–4000 aluminum saucepan lids. Marcus is a Senior Lecturer at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, and is represented by Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne.
