On Show EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS AT ART GALLERY TOI O TĀMAKI oCtober / November / deCember / JaNuary 2010 // Free // www.aucklandartgallery.com On Show Designed by Inhouse Edited by Jennifer Dann 21 November 2009 From the ISSN 1177-4614 to 14 February 2010 Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Admission: relies on the goodwill and generosity Taste of corporate partners. We are delighted Adult $7, Concession $5, Director to acknowledge their ongoing support. Family Pass $15, Under 5s free. Food & Feasting in Art

Welcome to your guide to The gift comprises works by Stimulate your taste relationships with food, Renowned photographers Auckland Art Gallery. It is hard Picasso, Cézanne, Dalí, Matisse buds in this sumptuous from the careful preparation Marti Friedlander, Gil Hanly to miss the work currently and Mondrian. It is a textbook of traditional dishes to the and Glenn Jowitt document visual feast offering underway to strengthen, collection of 12 paintings and communal consumption of Polynesian food practices. restore and expand our historic 3 works on paper, which traces a variety of artistic celebratory feasts. main building on Albert Park. the history of modern art flavours and textures. Jae Hoon Lee looks at the from the late nineteenth to Brueghel's A Village Fair and global migration of food This major project, made mid twentieth centuries. Art reveals the central place Lindauer's Time of Kai depict culture, composing his own possible through a $113 million of food in all cultures. Different communities observing these Kiwi feast from random Korean funding partnership between With the rise of a new building peoples develop their own time-honoured traditions. meals recreated in plastic. Auckland City Council, and the Robertson collection central government and the in view, we are at a junction community, through our in our own 121-year history. Foundation’s campaign, is due for completion in mid 2011. Chris Saines Director One of the highlights will be Auckland Art Gallery the first public display of the Toi o Tāmaki gift of 15 modern European works recently promised to Auckland by New York based philanthropists and collectors Julian and Josie Robertson.

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Andy Warhol Campbell's Soup Can c1965, screenprint, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki © 2009 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. John Daley, Steve's Fish and Chip Shop, (detail), 1969, Licensed by Viscopy black and white photograph, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

1 Taste Robin White, Fresh Bread (fi nal state) 1998, woven pandanus, commercial dye, traditional dye, Food & Feasting in Art Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Historically, food in art was often while robin White's Fish and a post-recession look at Big DAY ART laden with symbolic meaning. chips, Maketu is an iconic 's relationship a free day of art and food making emblem of New Zealand cuisine. to the global food trade. for the whole family. includes guest Pop artists radicalised the depiction of food with works sustainability concerns Come to Auckland Art appearances, demonstrations like Warhol's Campbell's contemporary artists like ani gallery this summer and and practical workshops. Free Soup Can and ruscha's o'Neill, who uses recycled revel in the luscious beauty sun 22 Nov 10am–4pm Exploding Cheese. wool for her crocheted octopus of food and the tactile, stuffed with empty plastic sensual qualities of art. modern living has brought water bottles. Chef’s tour Curator’s talk new approaches to food. brian Taste is a mouth-watering tour the exhibition mary Kisler on the with tv chef Peta symbolism of food brake's photos of Picasso and ruth Watson’s newly commis- experience not to be mathias and curator in historical art. friends speak to cafe culture, sioned butter mountain takes missed. Ngahiraka mason entry charge applies entry charge applies sun 13 dec 3pm Wed 25 Nov 12pm–1pm Film screening Authors’ talk a compilation of tv The Great NZ Pie food commercials from Cart authors on fast the NZ Film archive. food and auckland’s art Lounge / free famous ‘White Lady’. sun 20 dec 12pm and art Lounge / free 3pm sat 28 Nov 1pm Author's talk Collector’s talk First Catch Your Weka Laura sunderland author david veart on on her extensive NZ cookbook history. collection of arcane art Lounge / free kitchen implements. sun 20 dec 1pm entry charge applies sat 28 Nov 3pm greek cuisine Christodoulos moisa Maori food and andreas mikellis riki bennett on demonstrate favourite traditional maori food Greek recipes. gathering techniques art Lounge / free and plant uses. sun 17 Jan 1pm entry charge applies sun 6 dec 1pm Asian cooking tv1's asia downunder Author’s talk host bharat Jamnadas alexa Johnston on her cooks favourite indian sequel to Ladies, A Plate. recipes. art Lounge / free art Lounge / free sun 13 dec 1pm sun 7 Feb 1pm

Jacqueline Fahey Final Domestic Expose – I Paint Myself 1981–1982, oil and collage on board, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

2 3 UNTIL 21 FEBRUARY 2010 Below: Mary Carraher and Right: Louis John Steele family with Para Matchitt, and Kennett Watkins Arrival Free Admission Untitled, Te Kooti Series, of Captain Cook; An incident 1969, lacquer on board, in the Bay of Islands, 29 Auckland Art Gallery November 1769, 1890, oil Toi o Tāmaki on cardboard, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gifted in memory of Frank Anthony Eden 1988 Picturing History: Goldie to Cotton

Families can discover art together in this free exhibition of great .

Picturing History: Goldie to Cotton provides a glimpse into our past through the eyes of some of our most celebrated artists.

Learn more about these iconic works with our free Family Guide, filled with activities for kids aged 6 to 12.

Kids – get creative at our 'imagination station' with activities inspired by the art. Draw Mt Tarawera before and after its momentous eruption; compose your own assemblage and create objects evolving Biographer’s talk Summer films Film screening from rocks. Iain Sharp on colonial Free daily screenings of Speech, speech. Film painter, explorer and NZ art documentaries. Archive compilation Highlights from the gallery's soldier Charles Heaphy. Art Studio / free of entertaining NZ Art Lounge / free Mon 28 Dec to Sat 16 Jan speeches. extensive collection, from Sun 11 Oct 3pm 11am The Big Picture. Art Lounge / free Charles Goldie's beloved Hamish Keith’s history Sun 17 Jan 3pm portraits of colonial era Film screening of NZ art. 90 mins. The Stones on My Maori to Shane Cotton's Tongue. Documentary 1pm Colin McCahon: contemporary revisions of the on sculptor Denis I Am. By Paul Swadel. 72 mins. past, reveal how the histories O’Connor. Art Lounge / free 3pm The Stones on My we tell reflect our own time, 50 mins Tongue. Sculptor Denis place and cultural perspective. Sun 8 Nov 1pm & 3pm O’Connor. 50 mins.

4 Rita Angus: 1 August to 1 November 2009 Life & Vision Free Admission

Rita & fashion AUT’s Gabriella Trussardi on the depiction of garments in Angus’s work. Art Lounge / free Sun 4 Oct 1pm

Writer’s talk Peter Simpson on the role of Lawrence Baigent and . Art Lounge / free Sun 11 Oct 1pm

Rita & pacifism Fletcher Trust curator Peter Shaw on Angus’s conscientious objection. Free Sun 18 Oct 1pm

Remembering Rita Don't miss the last month the extraordinary life story Artist Jacqueline of this free blockbuster of this pioneering artist. Fahey on Angus’s feminist influence. exhibition. Auckland is the Art Lounge / free final venue for Te Papa's Lovely Rita, the acclaimed Sun 25 Oct 1pm landmark show, already documentary by Gaylene Subject’s talk seen by over 300,000 people Preston, screens across the nationwide. road at Academy Cinemas on being the subject of every Saturday at 1pm. Angus’s last ‘mother’ painting. Co-curator Jill Trevelyan's Art Lounge / free biography Rita Angus: An The gallery shop has a Sun 1 Nov 11am Artist's Life won this year's wide range of Rita Angus Biographer’s talk Montana Medal for Non- merchandise including posters, Vita Cochrane on Fiction. The book is the cards, badges and a limited the self-portraits essential companion to this edition range of jewellery by of Rita Angus. Art Lounge / free biographical show following Lisa Hoskin. Sun 1 Nov 1pm

Composer’s response Former chorister Above: Rita Angus Fog, Hawke's Developed Principal Dudley Benson Bay, 1966–68, oil on hardboard, & Toured by Funding Partner Auckland Art Gallery Toi o performs his unique Tāmaki. Reproduced courtesy response to Rita Angus. of the Rita Angus Estate. Art Lounge / free Left: Rita Angus Self-portrait, 20 minutes 1947, watercolour, Museum of Sun 1 Nov 3pm New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Major Sponsor on loan from the Rita Angus Estate.

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The 4th Auckland Artist papers gifted Teacher aid Paint research Rita and Fashion Venue Hire Triennial Artist Tony Fomison’s mother Primary school teachers can Conservator Sarah Hillary Auckland Art Gallery was Host your guests in Taste: New Zealand's foremost has donated one of the most get help teaching art from received $30,000 from Creative transformed into a catwalk Food & Feasting in Art this international contemporary art significant archives ever Auckland Art Gallery. Our NZ and the Lotteries Grants during a special public festive season. The exhibition exhibition, The 4th Auckland received by the gallery's EH education team has produced Board to research the early evening to mark Fashion space is available for cocktail Triennial will be launched on 12 McCormick Research Library. free unit plans for teachers to use of acrylic and PVA paints4 Week. Fashion students from events and boutique dinners.6 March. In 2010, 30 international Mary Fomison gifted hundreds use in the classroom before in NZ art. Conservators AUT University presented Private exhibition tours are artists are showcased in of the artist’s studio papers visiting the gallery.3 Inspired worldwide still have much to designer garments they had exclusively available to those venues across the city. Curator including meticulously detailed by art from our collection, learn about preserving these created in response to Rita hiring the gallery’s Art Natasha Conland1 says of the log books, sketch books, visual the Year 1 to 8 units include paints, first used here in the Angus.5 Next year they will Lounge. One of the city’s title and concept Last Ride in a diaries, loose drawings,2 letters, cross-curricular lesson plans 1960s by artists such as Colin respond to The 4th Auckland premier venues for hire, Hot Air Balloon: “The exhibition slides and ephemera. The and activity worksheets. McCahon and Gordon Walters. Triennial's theme of adventure Art Lounge can be modified explores what remains of the resource offers an invaluable E: education@ The project also involves and risk in art. to suit any occasion. impulse for adventure and risk insight into the working mind aucklandartgallery.govt.nz Te Papa and LA’s Getty E: venue@ in art today.” of this important artist. Conservation Institute. aucklandartgallery.govt.nz www.aucklandtriennial.com.

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Auckland Art Gallery's Heritage restoration work is $113 million development well under way. The stunning is on track to reopen in 1916 East Gallery interior mid 2011. is being entirely recreated based on original plans and This summer, the scaffolding photos. Plastering experts from comes down to reveal the South Auckland are recasting refurbished exterior of the ornate cornices for the vaulted historic 1887 French colonial ceilings and walls. This kind of corner. Work begins on the craftsmanship is fast becoming level two of the modern a dying art form. Cast iron extension. By Christmas, the roof ridge crests have been atrium roof will be craned into replicated from one small place, ready for the installation origina­l 1887 piece, in an of the zinc roof and ceilings intricate pattern making and made from recycled kauri casting process. recovered from forest floors. Landscaping of Albert Park Take a virtual tour of the gallery also begins, which will on our website and keep up to date with activity on site with include the amphitheatre our web cam and blog: and water features. www.aucklandartgallery.com

Friends of the Gallery Kids Club Sign up for our fortnightly Kids Club Bookings are essential: Phone 307 4540 Student Awards e-newsletter at www.aucklandartgallery.com or email [email protected] This year’s Friends’ student art exhibition was Sundays at 11am or 2pm School holiday programmes a great success with 18 students exhibited Kids aged 5 to 10 can enjoy a one-hour session A two-hour workshop from 10am to 12pm. and nine works sold. of fun, practical art-making inspired by works New cost: $12, includes materials and in the gallery. New cost: $8. morning tea. The Gallery Shop will sell a limited edition T-shirt based on AUT University student Chloe Marsters' October 2009 January 2010 work Broken Mirror (right) this summer. Taking inspiration from Taking inspiration from Rita Angus: Life & Vision Taste: Food & Feasting in Art Meanwhile, 42 secondary school students have Programme 1 Programme 1 become members of the Friends after winning Tues 29, Wed 30 Sept, Tues 12, Wed 13, Thurs Thurs 1 Oct – ages 5 to 10 14 Jan – ages 5 to 10 prestigious Pat Hanly Student Membership Join the Friends Programme 2 Programme 2 Awards. The Friends’ annual awards honour Get involved in the gallery. Join the Friends, a group Tues 6, Wed 7, Thurs Tues 19, Wed 20, Thurs Year 13 students who show"outstanding dedicated to encouraging interest in the visual arts. 8 Oct – ages 5 to 10 21 Jan – ages 5 to 10 Visit artists in their studios. Enjoy talks by curators and Programme 3 Programme 3 commitment and passion for the visual arts, art experts. Help grow the gallery’s art collection. Fri 9 Oct – ages 10 to 13 Tues 26, Wed 27, Thus 28 and community awareness". Ph 307 7705 or [email protected] Jan – ages 5 to 10

10 11 12 PuBliC eVeNTS events maybe subject tochange. For up-to-date listings visit www.aucklandartgallery.com 3 1 Wed 14oct 12noon tues 13oct12noon 45 minutes Art Lounge/free by NZartists. presents two solos inspired Footnote dancecompany Dance 11am, 2pm&3pm sun 4oct Art Lounge/free history byGabriel White. documentary on auckland’s The UnplannedMasterpiece. Festival –FilmScreening Auckland Heritage 4 2 by Michael Parmenter Image choreographed Contemporary Dance 2. sun 15Nov3pm: Acting. sun 15Nov1pm: Contemporary Dance1. sun 25oct3pm: Directing & Writing. sun 18oct2pm: Art Lounge/free its programmes. arts presentsworksfrom Performing andscreen unitec’s departmentof Performance 5 ross, stephanie Johnson mon 7dec10am to5pm sun 6dec10amto5pm sat 5dec10amto5pm Art Lounge/free 5 to18. viewed by children aged exhibition mayonlybe artists sellingfor$60each. lithographs by20prominent Forty limited edition, original Muka Printexhibition stu bagby, Fantastic Anthology (JAFA). works fromJust Another auckland poetsreadtheir Poetry siobhan Harvey. sun 18oct3pm Art Lounge/free 2 alistair Patterson, 1 iain sharp, Jack 5

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