Fugitive Structures
By Michael Young
ANDREW BURNS, Crescent House, 2013, mixed-media installation, 5.3 × 4.8 m. Installation view at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), Sydney, 2013. Photo by Brett Boardman. Courtesy SCAF.
In 2013, philanthropist and academic Gene Sherman launched a four-year program to build temporary art pavilions in the garden of the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) in Sydney, of which she is the executive director and chairman. This year the program in question, Fugitive Structures, draws to a close, and in 2017 the SCAF itself will end its eight-year run as it morphs into the Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas. For a decade the SCAF’s gallery program has presented museum-quality commissions from a range of contemporary artists. It debuted with Ai Weiwei’s large-scale installation Through (2008) and will end with an intervention by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who is known for his innovative work using recycled cardboard and paper. For the past four years, Fugitive Structures has run in parallel to SCAF’s main gallery program.
