B.167 Bulletin Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu Autumn March
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bulletin Autumn Christchurch Art Gallery March—May b.167 Te Puna o Waiwhetu 2012 EDITOR THE GALLERY IS CURRENTLY CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC. Bulletin Autumn DAVID SIMPSON HOWEVER, THE GALLERY SHOP IS OPEN AS USUAL. Christchurch Art Gallery March—May Te Puna o Waiwhetu 2012 GALLERY CONTRIBUTORS CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY DIRECTOR: JENNY HARPER TE PUNA O WAIWHETU CURATORIAL TEAM: KEN HALL, FELICITY MILBURN, CNR WORCESTER BOULEVARD AND MONTREAL STREET, JUSTIN PATON, PETER VANGIONI PO BOX 2626, CHRISTCHURCH 8140, NEW ZEALAND PUBLIC PROGRAMMES: LANA COLES TEL: (+64 3) 941 7300 PHOTOGRAPHER: JOHN COLLIE FAX: (+64 3) 941 7301 WWW.CHRISTCHURCHARTGALLERY.ORG.NZ OTHER CONTRIBUTORS SALLY BLUNDELL, Katie Thomas, Coralie Winn GALLERY SHOP TEL: (+64 3) 941 7370 EMAIL: [email protected], [email protected] FORM GALLERY TEL: (+64 3) 377 1211; (+64) 21 776708 WE WELCOME YOUR FEEDBACK AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE ARTICLES. EDUCATION BOOKINGS EMAIL: [email protected] FRIENDS OF CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY EMAIL: [email protected] CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TRUST TEL: (+64 3) 353 4352 CURRENT DIRECT SPONSORS OF THE GALLERY CHARTWELL TRUST CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TRUST CREATIVE NEW ZEALAND DUX DE LUX FRIENDS OF CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY GABRIELLE TASMAN GIESEN WINES Mitsubishi ELECTRIC NEWSTALK ZB PHILIP CARTER SKY ARTS CHANNEL SPECTRUM PRINT STRATEGY DESIGN & ADVERTISING THE PRESS THE ROYAL NETHERLANDS EMBASSY THE NZ NETHERLANDS FOUNDATION DESIGN & ADVERTISING DESIGN AND PRODUCTION ART DIRECTOR: GUY PASK EDITORIAL DESIGN: Matt Kitto, LEON WHITE PRODUCTION MANAGER: DAYLE DIREEN PRINTING: SPECTRUM PRINT ISSN 1176-0540 (Print) ISSN 1179-6715 (Online) Contents b.167 4 DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD A few words from director Jenny Harper 6 ROLLING MAUL Felicity Milburn on this dynamic project series 16 PERIMETER NOTES: Justin Paton’s A DAY AROUND THE red-zone safari RED ZONE 26 OUTER SPACES The Gallery’s current city-wide offerings 30 MAKE A DONATION Make a difference NOT FOR SAFE DRESSERS 31 THE ART OF Felicity Milburn on Philip CONTINUED GIVING Trusttum’s gift to the Gallery 34 SURVIVING HISTORY Ken Hall on images of ruin from the collection 40 AMNESIA: RONNIE VAN Peter Vangioni on the DIY HOUT’S FLYING NUN aesthetic COLLATED ESCAPADES 46 MEET ME ON Sally Blundell interviews THE OTHER SIDE Julia Morison FROM THE 52 STAFF PROFILE The copyright project team WORLDS FINEST 53 PAGEWORK #13 Katie Thomas 56 MY FAVOURITE Coralie Winn makes her choice 58 BACK MATTER News bites from around DESIGNERS the Gallery Sharon Wauchob, MATERIALBYPRODUCT, A.F.Vandevorst, Yves Salomon, Christian Peau, Alexandra Rosa Maria, Groover, Casey Vidalenc, Keiko Mercheri, Yves Andrieux, Vincent Beth Ellery, Camille Jalbert, Christophe Howie, Kathryn Leah Coppens, Barbara Payne, Vita Cochran, I Gongini. Akin and NG. Cover: Wayne Youle I seem to have temporarily misplaced my sense of humour (detail) 2011. Design for a mural presented by Christchurch Please note: The opinions put forward in this magazine are not necessarily 212 MADRAS ST CHRISTCHURCH Art Gallery and Gap Filler. those of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. All images reproduced Reproduced courtesy the artist courtesy of the artist or copyright holder unless otherwise stated. PHONE / 64 3 366 8683 WEB / NGSPACE.CO.NZ EMAIL / [email protected] 3 Director’s Foreword Jenny Harper Welcome to the autumn edition of Bulletin. christ- the importance of this Gallery to the city cannot be the public response to his work has been fantastic—it church recently marked the one-year anniversary of the overstated. as any art gallery relies on trust and rep- made the front page of The Press—and there is a pal- 22 February earthquake—an event that has changed utation, we must be able to demonstrate clearly that pable sense of pride in the work to be felt in Sydenham. this city forever. here at the Gallery, it’s hard to believe lenders can put their trust in the structural integrity of ‘Wayne’s Wall’ was followed in late december by Ronnie that we have now been closed for over a year as a result. our building—particularly if we want to be in a position van hout’s The creation of the world—a nocturnal pro- and, unfortunately, we can now say with certainty that to host major international exhibitions like Ron Mueck jection housed in the old villa opposite the Gallery on we’ll be closed for over a year more. again. When the dust finally settles, we need to make Worcester Boulevard. in it, a bearded Van hout spews as many of you will have seen, on 27 January we sure that this Gallery’s reputation as a secure building forth tiny Ronnies from a first-floor window.a nd in Feb- announced that the anticipated date of our reopening outweighs canterbury’s reputation as an earthquake- ruary we presented local artist Julia morison’s Meet me is mid 2013. of course, this is considerably later than troubled region. on the other side, shown in a space above nG on madras we, or you, would have liked. So i feel it is important to return to the here and now, however, and putting Street. Forced to move away from the forms and mate- that we set out as much as is possible the reasons for our frustrations at our delayed opening aside, this issue rials she usually employs to make art, morison began this delay. all our engineering reports indicate that the still feels like it comes at something of a turning point to use found objects, and an unlikely and pernicious building’s primary structure has performed incredi- for the Gallery. Why? Because despite all the hurdles, substance—liquefaction (one of morison’s early forays bly well through an exceptionally challenging period we’re presenting art again. Before this year, the Outer into the medium was made with the pages of B.164 and (as i write this, we’ve had one earthquake at magni- Spaces programme was a loose affiliation of works that presented in B.165). We’re grateful to nG for their help tude 7.1, three over 6, thirty-seven over 5 and 341 over didn’t fit within our traditional exhibition spaces. We in making this project happen—with staggering views 4). however, what our engineers are referring to as used monitors, stairwells, billboards and bunkers to out into the city’s red zone from its windows, the new ‘secondary structural elements’ have sustained some present new art, and the resulting works were a great space is a fantastically apposite place to view the art. damage. amongst these we can count the Gallery’s glass addition to our usual programme. So when the sudden We plan to use the nG space again—this time to façade—the steel structures holding together its 2,184 removal of our exhibition galleries meant that the Outer show the much delayed Rolling Maul. it’s been a long panes of glass require attention—external parapets, Spaces was all we had left to work with, we took art time coming for everybody and, although its form has cladding and ceilings. in addition, the precise nature to the streets. We’ve embraced gap sites, abandoned been necessarily re-thought due to the constraints of of the settling of the building and its car park are also buildings and several alternative venues, and so far the a new space, we’re delighted to finally be in a position still to be fully assessed. reaction has been incredibly positive. accordingly, the to display new works by local artists, and we’re thank- Before we can even start work on fixing these, Outer Spaces is a theme that will run through the next ful for the patience of all involved. council approval must be granted for the repairs and few Bulletins. Sadly, patience is a virtue we’re all going to have to their insurers and assessors need to agree with ours. at the end of november 2011 we worked with local display as we wait for a return to the Gallery proper. But When we do get started, the repair work is forecast to artist Wayne Youle to produce a mural for the christ- in the meantime we will continue providing first-rate take nine months to complete. at the other end, we’re church suburb of Sydenham. nine months earlier, the art experiences around the city wherever and whenever looking down the barrel of another major collection Gallery had been preparing to hang Youle’s 10 Down we can. Watch this (outer) space. move, and a gallery installation programme that will survey exhibition—his biggest show to-date. our version make our efforts during the run up to the Brought to of that show didn’t eventuate, so it was good to work Jenny Harper Light collection rehang seem positively tame. it’s a with Wayne to produce a piece that focused on what was director lengthy process, but one that it’s essential we complete lost in christchurch, and the courage, steadfastness and February 2012 properly. sense of humour that will be needed to ‘restart’ the city. BULLETIN 4 5 Generously supported by Creative New Zealand’s Earthquake Emergency Assistance Grant maul RoLL A lot of water, and Lord only knows what else, has flowed So, in what is rapidly becoming classic Christchurch under the bridge since Justin Paton and I first hatched our style, we have licked our wounds and re-grouped. In the Rolling plans for a fast-paced, post-quake showing of new work process, Rolling Maul has evolved from a group exhibi- by local artists. Rolling Maul, so far, has been quite the tion in a single space with a regularly changing line-up to antithesis of ‘fast-paced’, and despite our best efforts, it is a dynamic project series that unfolds as, when and where maul yet to roll anywhere—rather it has been beset by the same the best opportunities arise.