Peter Fischli / David Weiss The First Blush of Morningfrom the Equilibres series, 1984

Copyright © Peter Fischli David WeissCourtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

The Gallery of NSW component of the Biennale08 illustrates all that can go wrong with a themed show in my opinion. With the title revolutions - forms that turn it seems that

all the art had to be in this bit was round or moving round to be in it. O yes, and preferably the artist be DEAD!

I only started travelling in the last few years, but have managed to pack in Biennales in Venice (3) Shanghai, Sao Paulo as well as Documenta, Munster and a great deal of art in between, and one of the joys of a Biennale is to discover new, contemporary, cutting edge art which I choose to love or hate, but importantly to be challenged.

One of the problems I had with Documenta 2007 was that so much of the art was old: historical contextualisation or something, BUT, in Sydney, there is Duchamp's wheel for f&%$ks sake. I know it is round, but surely we don't need to go back that far to get the show "rolling". And throw in Jean Tinguely, Joseph bloody Beuys, Yves Klein for good measure.