Bien le Bonjour !
Chapitre 2 : Stroll in Town
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Discovery, by feet,
of Sydney,
Brisbane,
Melbourne.
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poEm :
The Edge of the Cliff
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A surprise in Sydney, in the Art Gallery of NSW
Surprising Statues
phoTos : Balade in Brisbane, Melbourne & Sydney
He liked walking, discovering everything on foot, being physically inside the air, the noises, the voices.
- What is this bird who comes on my road, overthere ?
- It's not a bird, it's a kangaroo.
- Really ?
- You're in Brisbane, Australia.
- Ok… I see him well, now.
Everything was new, and he would probably never see it again.
So everything appeared to him as a gift :
The man we see by transparency,
The white frame, lost in a park,
And the dreamy gardener.
poEm : The Edge of The Cliff
Another town, another surprise :
Three threadlike men, who look like heroes of Balzac.
About First World War, two statues affected him particularly :
A nurse tending a wounded soldier,
And this other one, with the donkey.
DETAILS ABOUT STATUES
DISCARDED SCRAP METAL KANGAROO
1999
By Christopher Trotter
Location : Brisbane
THE OVERSEER
2003
By Cesary Stulgis
Welded mild steel
Location : Brisbane
STILL LIFE WITH LANDSCAPE
By Robert Parr
1988
Location : King Edward Park, Brisbane
Statue of KONSTANTIN TSIOLKOVSKY, a Russian Scientist
Bronze
By Sergei Bychkov
Donated to Queensland in 2007
Location : outside the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium,
Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens
Plenty have polished Tsiolkovsky's knees for good luck.
THE THREE BUSINESSMEN
Who brought their own lunch : Batman, Swanston and Hoddle
1993
By Alison Waver and Paul Quinn
Location : Melbourne, Bourke Street
AN ARMY NURSE TENDING A WOUNDED SOLDIER
Bronze
Location : ANZAC Square, Brisbane
THE MAN WITH THE DONKEY
1935, bronze, by Wallace Anderson
This is an iconic image of a stretcher-bearer with his donkey carrying a wounded comrade.
Many soldiers wounded at Gallipoli (Dardanelles) owed their life to the stretcher bearers, who braved enemy fire to rescue men from the frontline and carry them to dressing stations on the beach.
Location : SHRINE OF REMEMBRANCE, Melbourne
CROUCHING BATHER
1906-1907, bronze
By Émile-Antoine Bourdelle
(1861-1929)
Location : Victoria Art Gallery, in Sydney
Au revoir !