Nathan Coley - Appearances - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA)

Nathan Coley Appearances, 2011 Exhibition View, ACCA Courtesy of the artist and Haunch of Venison, London Photograph: Andrew Curtis Nathan Coley Appearances 28 May – 24 July 2011 Turner prize exhibiting artist Nathan Coley creates a major commission and exhibition for ACCA. For this major new exhibition at ACCA, opening in May, ACCA’s large exhibition hall will be transformed into a civic plaza, defined by a series of cast concrete platforms in situ, inspired by designs of Oscar Niemeyer for Brazil’s iconic modernist capital city, Brasilia, and an illuminated sculptural tree based on a remix of his illuminated signs with local fairground architecture. A scale model of Melbourne’s Scots’ Church will also be featured along with other new works in the parallel galleries. A highlight of the exhibition will be a new ‘lecture’ work, ‘Another Lecture’ where actress Cate Blanchett becomes architect, narrating a slide show of ‘supposed’ architectural projects her office has undertaken. Humourist and ironic, the images are of non-architecture, urban fracture and decay found in Coley’s native Glasgow and field trips through Melbourne.