Anri Sala’s Last Resort: 33rd Kaldor Public Art Project

Philanthropist John Kaldor initiated his Australian public art program in 1969 with the audacious Wrapped Coast by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, for which the artists draped some-90,000 square meters of fabric over14.5 kilometers of Sydney’s coastal cliffs. Since then, there have been 32 projects from artists as diverse as Gilbert and George (1973), Ugo Rondinone (2003) and Tino Sehgal (2014). But few of the projects have been as socially relevant, historically immersive and exquisitely realized as Anri Sala’s understated installation The Last Resort, which premiered on October 11 in Sydney as the 33rd Kaldor Public Art Project.

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