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On Show EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS AT AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TĀMAKI JUNE / JULY / AUGUST / SEPTEMBER 2009 // FREE // www.aucklandartgallery.com On Show Designed by Inhouse Developed Edited by Jennifer Dann & Toured by ISSN 1177-4614 Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki relies From the on the goodwill and generosity of corporate partners. We are delighted to acknowledge 1 AUGUST 2009 TO their ongoing support. Director 1 NOVEMBER 2009 NEW GALLERY Free Admission Welcome to Auckland on the $113 million restoration Art Gallery. It’s your gallery, and expansion of our historic it’s free and it’s in the heart main building, after many years of the city. of planning and preparation. The new building is beginning Rita Angus: This winter we are excited to to rise, and remains on target to present Te Papa’s Rita Angus: open in April 2011. Life & Vision. Over 220,000 Life & Vision people have seen this free Don’t forget we remain open in show so far in Wellington, the New Gallery on the corner Dunedin and Christchurch. of Wellesley and Lorne Streets. I am sure you will enjoy this On your next visit, please be compelling look at one of New sure to see the animation we Zealand’s pioneer modern have produced of the new painters. The beautifully building. You will find it in the illustrated 230-page catalogue lower foyer next to the model. is on sale in our Gallery Shop for just $75 along with Rita Chris Saines Angus T-shirts, bags, badges Director and cards. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki I am excited too that Proudly printed by construction work is underway Rita Angus A Goddess of Mercy (detail) 1945–47, oil on Rita Angus Cass 1936, oil on canvas on board, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, canvas, Christchurch Art purchased 1955. Reproduced courtesy of the Rita Angus Estate. Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, purchased 1957. Reproduced courtesy of the Rita Angus Estate. Principal Major Funding Sponsor Partner 1 Te Papa’s landmark exhibition Curator’s tour comes to Auckland after Te Papa’s William McAloon hugely popular seasons in gives a tour of the show. New Gallery / free Wellington, Dunedin and Sunday 2 August 1pm Christchurch. Rita Angus: Life & Vision is the largest ever Photographing Rita Marti Friedlander on photo- retrospective of the work of one graphing the reclusive artist. of New Zealand’s best-loved Art Lounge / free artists. This free exhibition Sunday 9 August 1pm features 140 works, including Biographer’s talk the iconic Cass, voted New Jill Trevelyan on her 2008 Zealand’s greatest painting biography of Rita Angus. in a 2006 television poll. Art Lounge / free Sunday 16 August 1pm Drawing out the stories Portrait of Betty Curnow behind the paintings, the show Wystan Curnow on Angus’s reveals Angus’s commitment iconic portrait of his mother. to pacifism, her strong feminist Art Lounge / free Sunday 23 August 1pm views, and her spiritual beliefs. Also evident are Angus’s love Self portraits of nature and her affinity for Linda Tyler on Angus’s the New Zealand landscape, stylistic investigations and search for identity. as well as her extraordinary Art Lounge / free technique. Sunday 30 August 1pm The exhibition includes Curator’s talk Ron Brownson on sketchbooks and studies Angus’s landscapes. that reveal the full scope of Art Lounge / free Angus’s practice over four Sunday 6 Sept 1pm decades (1929-1969). Co- Film screening curated by Te Papa’s William Gaylene Preston presents McAloon and biographer Jill her 2007 film Lovely Rita. Trevelyan, it is complemented Art Lounge / free / 70 mins by a full colour catalogue. Sunday 13 Sept 1pm Open late Rita Angus: Life & Vision AUT fashion design introduces a new generation students present their 1936–37, oil on canvas, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Gallery, Art Public Dunedin canvas, on oil 1936–37, of New Zealanders to one of response to Angus. New Gallery / free our pioneer modern painters. Thursday 24 Sept 5pm to 8pm It reminds us all of her extra- ordinary artistic achievement, Conservator’s talk Self-portrait Sarah Hillary on Angus’s as a maker of images that have oil painting techniques. helped create and define our Art Lounge / free national identity. Sunday 27 Sept 1pm Angus Rita Angus Estate. of the Rita courtesy 1980. Reproduced purchased 2 3 FROM 25 APRIL 2009 This free exhibition provides a and heroic manner, often more since the centenary show glimpse into our past through concerned with imagination and features one of the most NEW GALLERY the eyes of some of our most than fact. In contrast, recent significant albums of late Free Admission celebrated artists. artists have taken a more 19th century New Zealand personal approach, in their own photography, the Burton Highlights from the gallery’s poetic styles. Shane Cotton Brothers’ Wonderland Album. extensive collection reveal how says while history may be a artists’ approach to history has starting point for his paintings, Picturing History shows how Picturing History: changed dramatically over time. it is never an end point. the histories we tell reflect our Early artists such as Charles own time, place and cultural Goldie, Louis John Steele The exhibition includes a perspective. Goldie to Cotton and Kennett Watkins painted focus on the 1886 Mt Tarawera historical scenes in a grand eruption for the first time Author's talk Richard Wolfe on the history of NZ portraiture. New Gallery / Free Sunday 31 May 1pm Geologist's talk A talk by Hamish Campbell on the anniversary of the Tarawera eruption. Art Lounge / Free Sunday 7 June 3pm Artist’s talk Emily Karaka on her painting Te Uri o Te Ao. New Gallery / Free Sunday 28 June 3pm Author’s talk Alexa Johnston on Denis O’Connor’s The Birdman and the Engineer. New Gallery / Free Sunday 19 July 1pm Artist’s talk Kura Te Waru Rewiri on her painting Te Tohu Tuatahi. Art Lounge / Free Sunday 26 July 1pm Author’s talk Dr Deidre Brown on her book Māori Architecture. Art Lounge / Free Sunday 20 Sept 1pm Kennett Watkins The Legend of the Voyage to New Zealand, 1912, oil on canvas, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Ta¯maki, gift of Messrs Samuel Vaile & Sons 5 4 18 JUNE 2009 TO 12 JULY 2009 News NEW GALLERY Gallery Development Free Admission Construction is well underway ceilings and repainting facades, on Auckland Art Gallery’s will be complete by the end $113 million development. The of the year. Most of the 1916 restored and expanded building East Gallery interior will be For Keeps: is set to reopen in April 2011. recreated based on photos and original plans. Sampling Recent Acquisitions Demolition of all but the 2006 – 2009 historic 1887 and 1916 wings Next year, work focuses on is complete. These heritage extensions which will provide buildings are now undergoing 50 per cent more exhibition vital earthquake strengthening space. Designed by Sydney- and restoration work. based architects Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp and Auckland’s Excavators have dug nine Archimedia, the new atrium metres below ground, will resemble a forest canopy. without any damage to heritage elements, to create Inspired by Tane Mahuta, new basement storage space. the Maori “Lord of the Forest”, A steel structural frame is the ceiling features kauri being inserted in the clock timber recovered from forest tower to increase earthquake- floors. Only properly sourced, protection. Restorations, authenticated and certified including repairs to timber timber has been purchased. window frames, recasting plaster cornices, upgrading For Keeps is a unique opportu- Conland says these artists Curator’s tour Images (left to right): nity to sample Auckland Art show, “a canny ability to make Natasha Conland gives Michael Parekowhai Song a tour of the show. of the Frog (detail) 2006, Gallery’s collecting activity from everyday objects do painless fi breglass, automotive paint, New Gallery / free Auckland Art Gallery Toi o the past three years. Each year, visual acrobatics, with a soft Sunday 21 June 3pm Ta¯maki, gift of the Patrons the gallery acquires around 170 and often beautiful landing”. of the Gallery; Peter Robinson Promethean new works which are bought, Artists’ talk Dreams 2007 polystyrene, gifted or on long-term loan from Renowned New Zealand artists Marie Shannon & Sriwhana Chartwell Collection, Auckland Spong on their works in Art Gallery Toi o Ta¯maki; the Chartwell Collection. Michael Parekowhai, Peter Simon Denny And Still Faster the show. 2007, polystyrene, paint, wood, Robinson and Julian Dashper New Gallery / free Chartwell Collection Auckland For Keeps highlights the are showcased alongside Sunday 12 July 1pm Art Gallery Toi o Ta¯maki. diversity of emerging art international artists including practice with bold displays by Annette Messager (France) and new artists. Curator Natasha Hany Armanious (Australia). 6 7 Images (left to right): Reading Room issue 3; John Weguelin The Obsequies of an Egyptian Cat 1886 oil on News canvas, Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Ta¯maki; Edgar Degas Dancer putting on her stocking (Femme Mettant Son Bas) 1896–1911, bronze, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Ta¯maki; Belgian Relief Fund Thank You Letter 1915, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Ta¯maki, gift of the family of Henry Partridge. _ART_OFF_THE_RACK_/_DEGAS_IN_AUSTRALIA_/_lindauer_research_/_new_teachers_/_READING_ROOM_/_taiwan_meets_pacific_/_ART_OFF_THE_RACK_/_DEGAS_IN_AUSTRALIA_/_lindauer_research_/_new_ teachers_/_READING_ROOM_/_taiwan_meets_pacific_/_ART_OFF_THE_RACK_/_DEGAS_IN_AUSTRALIA_/_lindauer_research_/_new_teachers_/_READING_ROOM_/_taiwan_meets_pacific_/ READING ROOM ART OFF THE RACK NEW TEACHERS TAIWAN MEETS PACIFIC DEGAS IN AUSTRALIA LINDAUER RESEARCH The third issue of Reading Reproductions of favourite Auckland Art Gallery’s Ron Over 150,000 people saw More is known about artist Room, the gallery’s annual artworks from the gallery’s Brownson recently curated Auckland Art Gallery’s Gottfried Lindauer’s most journal of art and culture, is collection are now available Le Folauga – The Past Coming charming Edgar Degas dedicated patron, Henry now on sale for $25.