Current : contemporary art from Australia and New Zealand / editor: Art & Australia
Paddington, N.S.W. : Dott Publishing, 2008
350 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm
Here comes a survey of new Australasian art whose title seems to signal something different … When you use the word ‘current’, you’re acknowledging that there was art before this moment and that there’ll be more to come
Justin Paton, Author of How to Look at a Painting
Current: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand is the first comprehensive survey of all that is cutting edge in Australian and New Zealand contemporary practice. In a landmark publication, the book features eighty artists, carefully chosen to best reflect the vibrancy of art of the moment. While Current could be seen as a hot list of contemporary taste in the tradition of Taschen’s Art Now, inclusivity is the book’s abiding theme. Current is also underpinned by scholarship with commissioned essays by the region’s leading writers and curators.
Among the artists represented is the SMFA's own Performance Faculty member Tony Schwensen, highlighted with 4 pages of what some have called the best photographs of his work to date.
