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Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki 1 Main gallery Cnr Wellesley and Kitchener Sts PO Box 5449, Wellesley St On Show Open daily 10am to 5pm except Christmas Day and Easter EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS Friday. Free guided tours 2pm daily. Free entry to the gallery. Admission AT AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TĀMAKI FEBRUARY / MARCH / APRIL 2007 // FREE // www.aucklandartgallery.govt.nz charges apply for special exhibitions Ph 09 307 7700 Infoline 09 379 1349 www.aucklandartgallery.govt.nz 3rd Auckland Triennial Venues: 2 New Gallery Cnr Wellesley and Lorne Sts 3 ARTSPACE Level 1, 300 Karangahape Rd 4 The Gus Fisher Gallery 74 Shortland St 5 ST PAUL ST Level 1, WM Building, 34 St Paul St 6 Academy Cinemas Central Library building, 44 Lorne St Getting there: By foot – all venues are within walking distance of each other By bus – Link buses pass near each venue every 10-15 minutes. Bus, ferry and train info: www.maxx.co.nz or ph 09 366 6400 By car – $4 all day parking on weekends and public holidays at Victoria St carpark, cnr Victoria & Kitchener Sts. Park then collect a discount voucher from Auckland Art Gallery or Academy Cinemas. ARTG-0009-serial The Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Ta¯maki is provided by On Show Edited by Jennifer Dann Designed by Inhouse Printed by Spectrum Print ISSN 1177-4614 From the Welcome to Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki relies on the good will and generosity of corporate partners. We are delighted to acknowledge their ongoing support. Director Auckland Art Gallery It’s your gallery. It’s free and it’s in the heart of Auckland City EXPLORE Our collection is the largest in the ENJOY Pop into our gallery shop for unique country with 14,000 art works spanning seven gift ideas and gallery publications. centuries. You don’t need to be an art expert Chris Saines, Director, to enjoy some of New Zealand’s most AMUSE Children are welcome and there’s Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki well-loved works. Friendly gallery guides are plenty to keep small hands busy in our Sunday on hand to answer your questions and free Kids Club and holiday art programmes. Welcome to the first On future our new building will guided tours are held daily at 2pm. Show of 2007, a year that will create, from the complex and DISCOVER Like to know more about art? see us finally reach our much sprawling collection-based RELAX Catch up with friends over lunch or We hold a mix of interesting events heralded goal to undertake a Passion and Politics, though a coffee at our leafy balcony cafés overlooking throughout the year. Come along and learn major development of the to the largest ever Triennial Albert Park and Khartoum Place. something new. gallery. I say ‘finally’ all too of contemporary art from knowingly, because that goal New Zealand and the world. has continued to elude us Admission charges apply for special exhibitions. over the last twelve months. The 3rd Auckland Triennial As most readers will know, reaches across five city venues our main building closing – including the New Gallery, date has been put back on The Gus Fisher Gallery, several occasions – first in Artspace, St Paul St and Cover image: July, then in December – and Academy Cinemas – and Lida Abdul War Games (What I Saw) (still) 2006, 16mm fi lm transferred we have had to develop new features nearly 40 artists from to DVD, courtesy of the artist and programmes at relatively some 20 countries. They are Giorgio Persano Gallery, Turin short notice each time. drawn from across the globe, from places such as Afghani- As we go to print, that date stan, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, remains unconfirmed due to Cuba and Palestine and resource consent appeals, include many major artists which I am hopeful we can who are all but unknown to resolve in the next few New Zealand audiences. months. Meanwhile, this Curated by Victoria Lynn issue celebrates a great end around the theme of ‘turbu- of summer and early New lence’, it will be the must see Year programme that points show of 2007. the way ahead to the expanded and exciting — Chris Saines 1 Far left: Gretchen Albrecht Aotearoa – Cloud 2002 acrylic and oil on canvas, Auckland Art Gallery, gift of the gallery patrons. Centre: Alexandros Georgiou, from the series Without my own vehicle 2006, courtesy of the artist and News Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens Below: Michael Parekowhai The Story of a New Zealand River 2001, paua, capiz, laquer and wood on a concert grand piano. Auckland Art Gallery. On loan from the Thanksgiving Foundation RCHIVE_GIFTED_/_FILM_FOR_SALE_/_ART_FOR_KIDS_/_MAJOR_PARTNER_/_ARTIST_TRAVELS_/_LOAN_TO_OZ_/_ARCHIVE_GIFTED_/_FILM_FOR_SALE_/_ART_FOR_KIDS_/_ AJOR_PARTNER_/_ARTIST_TRAVELS_/_LOAN_TO_OZ_/_ARCHIVE_GIFTED_/_FILM_FOR_SALE_/_ART_FOR_KIDS_/_MAJOR_PARTNER_/_ARTIST_TRAVELS_/_LOAN_TO_OZ_/_ ARCHIVE GIFTED FILM FOR SALE ART FOR KIDS MAJOR PARTNER ARTIST TRAVELS LOAN TO OZ Audio recordings of talks Artist Gretchen Albrecht School students create AUT University has signed Greek artist Alexandros A grand piano by artist given in the 1980s by artists is helping the gallery raise art inspired by work in the a major partnership deal Georgiou was the first artist Michael Parekowhai had an including Tony Fomison, money for its planned gallery. Up to 400 children to support the next three to leave for turbulence: epic journey to Queensland Don Binney, Sylvia Siddell development. a week attend the gallery’s Auckland Triennials to 2013. the 3rd Auckland Triennial, where it is one of four works and Greer Twiss have been Proceeds from the DVD education programme, Mayor Dick Hubbard says travelling from India’s holy from Auckland Art Gallery on gifted to the gallery’s Aotearoa – Cloud, on sale involving a tour of the gallery the commitment will help city of Varanasi entirely by show in the fifth Asia-Pacific E H McCormick Research in the gallery shop, will go followed by a one hour grow the event, enhancing public transport. He left in Triennial. Piano movers Library. The talks and towards the $90 million practical lesson. Subsidised Auckland’s international November and hopes to helped pack The Story of accompanying slides were project. The $20 DVD buses can be arranged. profile. Vice-chancellor arrive in Auckland for the a New Zealand River into a donated by Claudia Pond features an interview with For bookings phone our Derek McCormack (top) 9 March opening! Along the special crate flown by freight Eyley and Murray Gilbert Albrecht on the making of education team. says AUT is committed way, he’s creating works to Melbourne then taken (above) on behalf of the NZ her huge painting Aotearoa – Ph 307 6345. to supporting Auckland’s which respond to his on a 22-hour truck trip Society of Sculptors, Painters Cloud, currently on show in creative sector. AUT’s St environment and posting to Brisbane. and Associates. The library the exhibition Hei Konei Mai. Paul St gallery is a partner them to Artspace. is open Tues and Wed venue for the exhibition. 10.30am to 4pm. 2 3 TURBULENCE: the 3rd Auckland Triennial 9 MARCH TO 4 JUNE 2007 NEW GALLERY Adult $7. Concession $5. Friends of the Festival $5. Friends of the Gallery $4. Family pass $18 Auckland Triennial Partner Principal sponsor Major Supporters PATRONS OF THE TRIENNIAL Exhibition Partners Significant works by major Curated by renowned window onto the world of artists like Turner Prize Australian curator Victoria contemporary art, creating finalists Mona Hatoum Lynn, the exhibition features a dialogue between the local (Palestine/UK), Isaac Julien painting, sculpture, photogra- and the global. turbulence Support Sponsors (UK), Phil Collins (UK) and phy, video, installation, film, the 3rd Auckland Triennial Willie Doherty (Northern performance and international Ireland) as well as Michal collaborative actions. exhibition + This multi-venue exhibition fears in our midst. They have Rovner (Israel/USA), Fiona presents contemporary art created aesthetic interven- Hall (Australia), the Long Proud to be part of the films + from around the world that tions – active, vital and March Project (People’s Auckland Festival, AK07, symposium + addresses the condition of alternative ways of looking Republic of China) and turbulence is presented turbulence – the complex at the world around us. Carlos Capelán (Uruguay/ across five inner city catalogue + and unpredictable times in Sweden) will be seen for the venues: the New Gallery, performances + which we live. Their works include stories of first time in this country. Artspace, The Gus Fisher ancestry and exile; journeys Gallery, St Paul St and events Over 35 artists from more through literal and imagined New works have been Academy Cinemas. than 20 countries engage spaces; reflections upon the created by nine New Zealand www.aucklandtriennial.com with the emotional flux of fragility of existence; and artists, including Shane New Zealand’s premier their daily reality, responding humanity’s capacity for Cotton, John Pule and Yuk international contemporary to the ambient hopes and resistance and resilience. King Tan. art exhibition provides a 4 5 Passion & Politics Two Centuries of British Art Drama, folly and satire from people became a legitimate language, blocked garden the era known as “the golden subject for art while satirists entrance and tortoise age of British painting” lampooned kings, courtiers lumbering off to hibernate all feature in this free show of and country folk in equal suggest first love has waned. more than 140 works by stars measure. Views of the English Pope makes love to Lady like Thomas Gainsborough, landscape and rural pursuits Mary Wortley Montagu William Hogarth, Sir Joshua were just as popular as (inside cover) depicts the Reynolds and John Water- portraits of public figures. moment poet Alexander house. The new British Children could be seen at play, Pope declared ardent love School of Art which emerged rather than the ‘miniature for his fellow writer.
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