Feathered free-spirited polar bears greet visitors to the National Gallery of Victoria | Gender and art | Scoop.it

MELBOURNE.- A sleuth of giant, fluorescent and feathered free-spirited polar bears greet visitors to the National Gallery of Victoria’s Federation Court this winter in a major suite of new sculptural works by Italian artist Paola Pivi.

Paola Pivi: You started it…I finish it is an installation encompassing eight life-size sculptures of bears, adorned with neon-coloured feathers. These flamboyant figures adopt various attitudes and guises, playfully occupying the space of Federation Court, greeting visitors, posing and frolicking: one bear leaps from a balcony; others approach each other as if to dance, or engage in deep philosophical conversation, whilst others recline in joyful, carefree abandon. 

 

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