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Bulletin B.153 BULLETIN OF CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU winter june – august 2008 Exhibitions Programme June, July, August b.153 2 Foreword COLIN MCCAHON LAURENCE ABERHART Bulletin Editor: Sarah Pepperle A few words from the Director The iconic painting Victory over death 2 by Colin McCahon is at the Over 200 key works by an artist described as 'the essential visual heart of this touring exhibition celebrating one of New Zealand’s poet of New Zealand's past'. Includes his signature images of Gallery Contributors most significant artists. landscapes, façades, monuments and interiors from New Zealand, Director: Jenny Harper 3 My Favourite A National Gallery of Australia Focus Exhibition. Australia and farther afield. Curatorial Team: Ken Hall, Jennifer Hay, Anne Kirker makes her choice Felicity Milburn, Justin Paton Touring Exhibition Gallery B, closes 8 June A City Gallery Wellington touring exhibition. Touring Exhibition Galleries A and B, 18 July – 12 October, Public Programmes: Sarah Amazinnia, Lana Coles, 4 Noteworthy catalogue and iPod Audio Tour available Wendy Cox News bites from around the Gallery THAW Gallery Photographer: Brendan Lee Perhaps disillusioned by a lack of recognition from his expeditions Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery: Cheryl Comfort, Paul Deans to Antarctica, the enigmatic Ernest Joyce brought together a DANIEL CROOKS: EVERYWHERE INSTANTLY 6 everywhere instantly collection of photographs that cemented his place in history. ‘Once you’ve seen a Daniel Crooks DVD you’re not likely to Other Contributors The art of Daniel Crooks forget the experience,’ writes art critic Edward Colless. Using his Laurence Aberhart, Jim Barr and Mary Barr, Ron Brownson, Tait Electronics Antarctica Gallery, closes 15 June renowned ‘timeslice’ technique, Crooks transforms everyday sights Brian Butler, Spencer Finch, Anne Kirker, Adrian Martin, 12 The Speed of Art into wide-screen meditations on time and motion. Everywhere Deborah McCormick, Gregory O’Brien MORRIS & CO.: THE WORLD OF WILLIAM MORRIS instantly brings these dizzying and beautiful digital worlds to New Film critic Adrian Martin discusses ‘time’ in art William Morris – the man behind the firm Morris & Co. – remains Zealand audiences for the first time. Tel (+64-3) 941 7300 Fax (+64-3) 941 7301 Email [email protected] [email protected] a remarkable figure more than a century after his death. His work Touring Exhibition Gallery C and Borg Henry Gallery, 14 Laurence Aberhart endures, with many of his designs for wallpapers, textiles and carpets 18 July – 9 November, catalogue and iPod Audio Tour available Please see the back cover for more details. Gregory O’Brien writes on Aberhart’s ways of seeing still popular today. Artist, designer, socialist, poet, novelist and We welcome your feedback and suggestions for future articles. theorist: Morris’s work is celebrated in this exquisite show. An Art Gallery of South Australia Travelling Exhibition. AUS AUSTRALIEN 20 Darryn George: Pulse Outstanding examples of printmaking by eight leading Australian Touring Exhibition Galleries A, C & Borg Henry Gallery, artists working with a variety of techniques. Highlights include 22 Keeping Time closes 29 June, admission charges apply, catalogue available energised woodcuts by John Nixon and confrontational etchings www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz/morrisandco by Mike Parr, two of Australia’s foremost contemporary artists, and An exhibition considering the roles of history, memory and tradition Jenny Watson’s evocative Bottled Memories series. TRAVELLING LIGHT Burdon Family Gallery, 9 August – 9 November 24 Antarctic Stories A month-long exhibition timed to coincide with Mätäriki, when Works from Austen Deans’ expedition to Antarctica the Pleiades star cluster rises in the morning sky. Inspired by the vast journeys undertaken by early Mäori celestial navigators, I SEE RED Travelling Light is full of star maps, sea journeys and night flights An interactive journey through a high-spirited and wide-ranging 25 a constant flow of light – from Shane Cotton’s night-time paintings through to Lonnie selection of contemporary and historical artworks exploring the Colin McCahon in the Christchurch Art Gallery collections Hutchinson’s intricate lightscape. colour red. Designed for children and families. Touring Exhibition Gallery B, 13 June – 13 July Monica Richards Gallery, closes 23 November, family quiz available 26 Travelling Light An exhibition for Mätäriki BEN CAUCHI: DEAD TIME THE COLLECTIONS CURRENT SPONSORS OF THE GALLERY Known for his use of mid-19th-century photographic processes, From Petrus van der Velden’s thundering Mountain Stream, Otira 29 Art Destinations Ben Cauchi deftly manipulates light sources, studio effects and Gorge of 1893 to Andrew Drummond’s Falling Water, photographed AALTO COLOUR Favourite escapes darkroom techniques to create a mysterious, illusory zone. in the same South Island landscape 110 years later, the first floor ADRIAAN AND GABRIELLE TASMAN collection galleries hold a rotating selection of treasures from the BALLANTYNES 30 Outer Spaces Burdon Family Gallery, closes 3 August, catalogue and iPod Audio Historical, Twentieth Century and Contemporary Collections. Tour available ERNST & YOUNG The Gallery’s programme of art in ‘outer spaces’ heats up over winter Collection Galleries, collections catalogue available FRIENDS OF CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY DARRYN GEORGE: PULSE MONTANA WINES NZ LTD 36 Dead Time A CONSTANT FLOW OF LIGHT Stretching more than fifty metres and reaching from floor to SPECTRUM PRINT An interview with Ben Cauchi ceiling, Pulse is an engulfing fusion of customary Mäori art and Fifty years since Colin McCahon began his renowned work STRATEGY DESIGN & ADVERTISING contemporary abstract painting, using intricate patterns, chanting Tomorrow will be the same but not as this is, this focus exhibition from TEXTILIA 38 Staff Profile rhythms and an eye-popping palette of red, black and white. the collections brings together remarkable works spanning the life THE PRESS of this great modern painter, and points to the ‘afterlives’ of his art in The Education Centre William A. Sutton Gallery, closes 24 August, iPod Audio Tour available the works of two later artists. KEEPING TIME Collection Galleries 40 Showcase Exploring the moment when past and present collide, this collection- Featuring recent arrivals to the Gallery’s collection based exhibition teams Denis O’Connor’s monumental limestone OUTER SPACES sculpture The Gorse King with a selection of works in other media to The Gallery’s new programme of artworks in 'outer spaces' heats 41 Friends of the Gallery consider how history, memory and tradition frame our experience of up over winter, with Inez Crawford’s Bouncy Marae and a line-up People, places and events the world. of sound artists making themselves heard in the new Subsonic programme in the carpark bunker. Out on the Worcester Boulevard Ravenscar Gallery, closes 31 August, iPod Audio Tour available 44 Coming Soon façade, Richard Killeen’s spectacular billboard The Gathering will Design & Production light up the winter evenings. And inside the foyer, there’ll be no Previewing SCAPE 2008 A. A. DEANS: ANTARCTIC STORIES missing Sara Hughes’ dazzling work United We Fall. Art Director: Guy Pask Canterbury artist Austen Deans – well-known for traditional Editorial Design: Clayton Dixon Cover image: Daniel Crooks Pan No.3 (rotation isn’t movement) 2007. DV/DVD. landscape paintings depicting his beloved high country – visited TWINSET: VIDEO ART IN THE FOYER Production Manager: Dayle Direen Reproduced courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery Antarctica for three weeks in 1981, where he spent time sketching, To coincide with the beginning of the Subsonic sound art series Photolithography: Verve Digital Ltd painting watercolours and photographing the environment. Printing: Spectrum Print Antarctic Stories presents work from the expedition. in the carpark bunker, Phil Dadson's Incantation turns the players Please note: The opinions put forward in this magazine are not necessarily those themselves into the instruments, while in Euan Macdonald's GAD of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. All images reproduced courtesy of ISSN 1176 – 0540 the artist or copyright holder unless otherwise stated. Tait Electronics Antarctica Gallery, 21 June – 5 October three guitars make the music – with no visible help from a musician. Director’s Foreword My Favourite JENNY HARPER ANNE KIRKER This quarter, two new exhibitions – bombarded with an overload of a magic moment of reflection and I was torn between three wall-based exhibits when asked Art Gallery.) It made me ponder the extent an artist’s very different in style and technique art and other imagery, where ‘most renewal within the collection spaces to choose my favourite example from the collection works sensibility plays in determining the character of his or her – share fascinating similarities in public thinking about art and its (which we intend to re-hang during on display at Christchurch Art Gallery in March. There sitter. I rejoiced again, seeing her painting of Betty Curnow, their consideration of the concept consumption is enslaved to rational 2009) and continues the after-life of was the classical beauty Teresina (c. 1876), a small oil by in Louise Henderson’s European roots, her considerable of time in art. I’m referring to City time’, he asserts that art also ‘happens Colin McCahon, the memorable focus Frederic Leighton which harked back to the purity of skill as
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