ARCADIAN REVERIE
Garden-based Exhibition: White Night Melbourne
Bridie Lunney, 24 hour performance for Arcadian Reverie, Royal Botanical Gardens, White Night Melbourne Australia, 2014.
Courtesy the artist and White Night Melbourne.
Martin Creed, Everything is Going to be Alright, Installation view, Arcadian Reverie, Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne, Australia, 2014. Courtesy the artist and
White Night Melbourne.
Arcadian Reverie was a garden-based exhibition, curated by Anaïs Lellouche, inspired by Australia's botanical gardens and the pleasure gardens of the 18th century, the precursors to todays amusement parks.
“Looking back in history, I was interested in the idea of pleasure gardens and how they celebrated, in nature, a kind of cross-disciplinary experience...
This is giving up the park to artists and their imaginations.”
The exhibition featured existing and new works by artists such as Martin Creed, Pierre Huyghe, Fischli and Weiss, Julio Le Parc, Bridie Lunney, Mel O'Callaghan and Roman Signer. Blurring the boundaries between private and public spaces, Arcadian Reverie provides an open environment for various genres of art to co-exist and be appreciated by a wide-reaching audience.