MARITIME MUSEUM FERRY TERMINAL QUAY ST BRITOMART STATION On Show CUSTOMS ST BEACH RD EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS AT AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TĀMAKI ANZAC AVE NOVEMBER / DECEMBER / JANUARY 2008 // FREE // www.aucklandartgallery.com SHORTLAND ST HOBSON ST HOBSON ALBERT ST ALBERT QUEEN ST HIGH ST PRINCES ST PRINCES BOWEN AVE VICTORIA ST WEST ST KITCHENER LORNE ST LORNE ALBERT PARK NEW MAIN WELLESLEY ST WEST STANLEY ST GALLERY GALLERY GRAFTON RD CLOSING 29 FEB WELLESLEY ST AUCKLAND AOTEA R MUSEUM D SQUARE L A R O Y A M Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Discount parking - $4 all day, weekends and PO Box 5449, Auckland 1141 public holidays, Victoria St carpark, cnr Kitchener Main Gallery: Cnr Wellesley and Kitchener Sts and Victoria Sts. After parking, collect a discount New Gallery: Cnr Wellesley and Lorne Sts voucher from the gallery Open daily 10am to 5pm except Christmas Day For bus, train and ferry info phone MAXX and Easter Friday. Free guided tours 2pm daily on (09) 366 6400 or go to www.maxx.co.nz Free entry. Admission charges apply for special exhibitions The Link bus makes a central city loop www.stagecoach.co.nz/thelink Ph 09 307 7700 Infoline 09 379 1349 www.aucklandartgallery.govt.nz ARTG-0009-serial On Show Edited by Jennifer Dann Designed by Inhouse 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 finest in the AMUSE Children are welcome and there’s country with 14,000 works spanning seven plenty to keep small hands busy in our Kids centuries. Free guided tours are held daily Club and holiday art programmes. Chris Saines, Director, at 2pm. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki DISCOVER Like to know more about art? RELAX Catch up with friends at Reuben café It has been a long and at times The aim is to remain a dynamic We hold a mix of interesting events throughout overlooking Khartoum Place. testing journey for the gallery’s and relevant presence in the the year. Come along and learn something new. large community of support Auckland landscape, for both but our development plans the regular visitor and tourists ENJOY Don’t miss the super sale at our gallery JOIN Become a Friend of the Gallery and open will be realised. alike. We will keep the shop. Hundreds of items are reduced to clear. the door to a stimulating world of art and artists. collection in play while The Environment Court's regularly presenting temporary decision was a ringing exhibitions, at the same time Admission charges apply for special exhibitions. endorsement of the project. planning an exciting future. Not only did the court praise the integration of the gallery Chris Saines extension with Albert Park, but it also found we gave adequate Note: In my last column, I said Proudly printed by consideration to alternative that the Jim Allen work O-AR sites, confirming our decision Part I was first shown at this to revitalise this exceptional gallery in 1975. In fact, it has heritage building as a world- never been shown here. That Cover image: Boyd Webb Blessed 1985, class gallery. was O-AR Part II. Thanks to cibachrome photograph, reader Tony Green for pointing Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1986 © Boyd Webb We hope to close our main this out. on show in Making Worlds building in early December. We will continue to operate out of the New Gallery throughout the estimated two year construction period. While we might have limited space, we won’t be limiting our ambition for it. 1 NOW SHOWING IN Acquisitions LIKENESS & CHARACTER Development News NEW GALLERY GROUND FLOOR Tony Fomison Free Admission Green light for gallery upgrade The Ponsonby Madonna 1982-83 Auckland Art Gallery has been given the go-ahead, in principle, for a landmark restoration and expansion of its historic 1887 main building. The Environment Court has made an interim ruling in favour Images: Courtesy of the $96.4 million upgrade of fjmt+archimedia which will protect one of Auckland’s iconic buildings for future generations. The court, after hearing three appeals in July, asked that one section of the roofline be adjusted before giving final sign-off. Like the successful Civic theatre and Town Hall heritage upgrades, the refurbishment was prompted by the need for essential earthquake-proofing. The expansion and modernisation will increase exhibition space by more than 50%, allowing visitors more room This masterpiece of New of creative achievement. Senior that once seen, it is never to enjoy the country’s finest art Zealand art is on public display curator Ron Brownson says forgotten. Fomison was closely collection of 14,000 works. for the first time since being the painting is a key work of involved with Maori and gifted to Auckland Art Gallery religious New Zealand art. Samoan communities to the Operational standards will be by a private donor. extent that he underwent the brought up to international It locates the life of Jesus Christ full traditional Samoan tattoo, requirements for the safe Fomison’s only mural was firmly within Auckland city and known as pe’a. movement of artworks. commissioned for the chapel its population. St Paul’s College of St Paul’s College, a Catholic students can readily identify Auckland Art Gallery has There will be a larger café, shop the revamp - a key part of its When reopened in 2010, boys school in Ponsonby, with Fomison’s Polynesian the pre-eminent collection and auditorium plus more space strategy to revitalise the CBD the developed gallery will 25 years ago. Painted under Mary and her teenage son. of his work. for education and events. as one of the world’s most be a premium arts asset for a government PEP labour This powerful and expressive Auckland City Council is vibrant and dynamic business Auckland and New Zealand. scheme, the work is a landmark painting is so visually stunning contributing $33 million towards and cultural centres. 2 3 News Below Left: Eugene Carchesio Works From The Museum of Silence (Dept. of 100 poems), 1988-1994 (detail) Left: Mystic Truths Below Right: Colin McCahon and Ross catalogue Fraser installing Jacob Epstein’s Rock Drill at Auckland Art Gallery 1961 Below: Monna Malcolm Annette (bust) 1938 Right: Taubmans Solpah paint tin EST_DESIGN_/_Model_Meets_Likeness_/_art_cafÉ_/_Maths_vs_art_/_Mccahon_research_art_on_the_move_/_BEST_DESIGN_/_Model_Meets_Likeness_/_art_ca aths_vs_art_/_Mccahon_research_art_on_the_move_/_BEST_DESIGN_/_Model_Meets_Likeness_/_art_cafÉ_/_Maths_vs_art_/_Mccahon_research_art_on_th BEST DESIGN MODEL MEETS LIKENESS ART CAFÉ MATHS VS ART McCAHON RESEARCH ART ON THE MOVE The gallery’s Mystic Truths Annette Burrows (above) was Victoria Avenue Primary The gallery combines maths New research has pinpointed Seventeen works - the jewels exhibition catalogue has 15 when she posed for this School showcased students’ and art in its new primary the reasons behind cracking of the gallery’s 20th century won gold at the BeST design Monna Malcolm sculpture art in its recent Art Café school programme. The move in some Colin McCahon British collection - have been awards. The Designers in 1938. Now 84, she has been exhibition. All 500 students comes as the NZ curriculum paintings. The gallery’s lent to the National Gallery of Institute of NZ awards reunited with the work in a created works about different takes a more integrated principal conservator Sarah Victoria for its Modern Britain recognise the nation’s best behind the scenes gallery visit. cultures after attending the approach to subjects. Gallery Hillary says around 10 exhibition. A special steel graphic, product and spatial The former ballet dancer says gallery’s Learning Experiences educator Kirsty Glengarry says privately held works painted cage was built to transport design. The catalogue, her modelling job at Elam Outside the Classroom art is filled with geometric with the household paint a 95kg bronze Jacob Epstein designed by Alan Deare from School of Fine Arts was (LEOTC) programme. Gallery shapes, angles and lines. Solpah are affected. Samples sculpture (above). The Inhouse Design, won gold in considered quite risqué. educators teach practical Students will make their own sent to the Getty Conservation consignment was sent the Best Book award category. “My parents were very classes and show children 3D models and learn how artists Institute in LA were found by freighter aircraft to supportive. They saw me how to interpret art to find use shapes in composition. to have high levels of a resin accommodate a John Bratby as I was – a body that wanted their own meanings. which cracks under heat. The painting in its 4m-long crate. to be painted,” she says. Schools can book now for 2008: research has been presented ph 373 6345. at an international conference. 4 5 3 NOV TO 21 JAN Opposite Page: NEW GALLERY Ronnie van Hout, LEVEL ONE detail from ‘I’m Not Here’ installation 1999 Adult $7 Concession $5, Left: Morgan Jones Families $18, Under 5s free. Here and There 1986 Free on Mondays. Below: Neil Dawson Interior V 1979 Far Below: Peter Madden Necrolopolous 2004 Imagination can transform the to the gallery wall, creating being acquired; Peter Madden’s ordinary into the fantastical. a city that grows like a vine. intricate and creepy city This family show looks at how Family-friendly wall labels Necrolopolis 2004 and Callum artists use their creativity to give parents and children Morton’s International Style invent other worlds. Escape the freedom to follow their 1999. See a city grow out of to Auckland Art Gallery this imaginations and discover their a fairytale garden, only to be summer and experience a own meanings.