Harald Szeemann was the late twentieth century’s most celebrated and influential curator. For Project 2, Szeemann was invited by John Kaldor to curate an exhibition in Sydney and Melbourne promoting cultural exchange and engaging with “dominant international trends”.
The result was I want to leave a nice well-done child here, a dynamic exhibition of works by twenty-two artists at Sydney’s Bonython Gallery and, with the addition of work by Mike Brown, at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. It was the largest exhibition of conceptual art ever staged in any Australian museum.