BULLETIN of the CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU Summer December 05 – February 06 Exhibitions Programme B.143 Bulletin Editor Sarah Pepperle
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BULLETIN OF THE CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU summer december 05 – february 06 Exhibitions Programme b.143 Bulletin Editor Sarah Pepperle Gallery Contributors 2 Director’s Foreword Director Tony Preston A few words from the Director Curator (Contemporary) Felicity Milburn Curatorial Assistant (Historical) Ken Hall Curator (Works on Paper) Peter Vangioni 3 My Favourite Curatorial Assistant (Contemporary) Jennifer Hay Garry Moore makes his choice Public Programmes Officer Ann Betts ANSEL ADAMS: PHOTOGRAPHIC FRONTIERS Gallery Photographer Brendan Lee Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery Helen Peate 4 Noteworthy Legendary American photographer Ansel Adams’ images of the natural world reveal a lifetime News bites from around the Gallery devoted to capturing its changing beauty. This exhibition presents a selection of works the Other Contributors artist considered his best. Dr Michael Adams, Garry Moore William A. Sutton and Ravenscar Galleries / until 29 January / Tel (+64-3) 941 7300 Fax (+64-3) 941 7301 6 Alchemy of Daily Life admission charges apply / catalogue available Email [email protected] [email protected] Contemporary Korean artists make the everyday extraordinary Please see the back cover for more details. ALCHEMY OF DAILY LIFE We welcome your feedback and suggestions for future articles. 14 Artist Profile: Kees Bruin From the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul comes a major exhibition of Portrait of the artist contemporary Korean art in which ordinary objects are transformed into surprising and often spectacular works. Touring Exhibition Galleries / until 26 February / catalogue available 16 Ansel Adams: Photographic Frontiers The Extraordinary Vision of an American Legend SOUTHERN LIGHTS A remarkable installation by leading photographer Anne Noble explores how the medium of 22 Art/Speak: Dr. Michael Adams photography shapes our impressions of Antarctica. My Father’s Camera: The Legacy of Ansel Adams Tait Electronics Antarctica Gallery / 10 December – 30 July KEES BRUIN: ALLUSION & ILLUSION 28 Southern Lights Kees Bruin’s super-realist paintings explore the boundaries between reality and illusion, creating New works from Anne Noble inspired by Antarctica an enigmatic and intriguing world. CURRENT SPONSORS OF THE GALLERY Ravenscar Gallery / 10 February – 7 May / exhibition brochure available Gold 30 Recent Acquisitions CRANLEIGH BARTON ESTATE Featuring Ani O’Neill’s Five Little Piggies THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT EUREKA TRUST This first survey of Jason Greig’s foreboding, otherworldly landscapes, seascapes and figures KOREA FOUNDATION reveals a sinister side of the human psyche. 31 Friends of the Gallery MONTANA WINES NZ LTD People, places and events William A. Sutton Gallery / 10 February – 7 May / exhibition brochure available PYNE GOULD CORPORATION/PERPETUAL TRUST SPECTRUM PRINT STRATEGY ADVERTISING & DESIGN 34 Coming Events LONG TERM TASMAN CHARITABLE TRUST A look at what’s on at the Gallery THE CARTER GROUP THE COLLECTIONS Divided into Historical, Twentieth Century and Contemporary Collections, this installation Silver 36 Coming Soon Previewing Jeffrey Harris displays a rotating selection of treasures from the Gallery’s permanent collections. AALTO COLOUR Collection Galleries / Acoustiguide® and catalogue available ARCHIBALDS CITROËN GLASS TOWER STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS APE TO ZIP THE PRESS A light-hearted art alphabet adventure bringing together a curious assortment of artworks in VERVE DIGITAL LTD an exhibition designed to captivate the young and the young at heart. Monica Richards Gallery / until 28 May 06 GRAPHICA BRITANNICA Highlights from the Rex Nan Kivell gift of prints by some of the most highly regarded British printmakers of the early to mid twentieth century. Design & Production Burdon Family Gallery / until 28 May 06 / catalogue available Art Director Guy Pask Editorial Design Douglas Maclean Designer Paulette Greyling Production Manager Lynda Courtney Photolithography Verve Digital Ltd Printing Spectrum Print Please note: The opinions put forward in this magazine are not necessarily those of the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. All images reproduced courtesy ISSN 1176 – 0540 of the artist or copyright holder unless otherwise stated. Director’s Foreword My Favourite P. ANTHONY PRESTON MAYOR GARRY MOORE Garry Moore is Mayor of Christchurch and a keen supporter of the arts in Canterbury. Mountain Stream, Otira Gorge 1893 Petrus van der Velden. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Gallery “This is a beautiful painting that makes our lives richer. It is part of One of the highlights of the Summer photography, and he discusses the life our heritage and I am programme at the Gallery is the and work of Ansel Adams in excerpts pleased to know the spectacular contemporary Korean from his 2005 Carter Group Art exhibition, Alchemy of Daily Life. Lecture, delivered at the Gallery on City has the painting for This exciting exhibition has come from 4 November. posterity as part of our the prestigious National Museum of Finally in this issue, Curator (Works splendid Christchurch Contemporary Art in Seoul, and we on Paper) Peter Vangioni introduces Art Gallery collection.” are delighted to be New Zealand’s Southern Lights, the exhibition of only venue. It is a not-to-be-missed new work by nationally respected opportunity to see works that will photographer Anne Noble. There were any number of great pictures I could have chosen Mountain Stream, Otira Gorge could be seen as a melancholy surprise, delight and intrigue by some Our thanks go to Mayor Garry for this article, but in the end I decided on Mountain Stream, and brooding picture – the sky is dark with only a little bit of Korea’s leading artists. In this issue, Moore for sharing his favourite work Otira Gorge, by Petrus van der Velden. of blue showing, and the cliffs on either side of the gorge Curator (Contemporary Art) Felicity of art from the permanent collections Petrus was an interesting fellow who first trained as a dominate the landscape. However, the water is clear and Milburn writes on the Korean art scene, – Mountain Stream, Otira Gorge by Petrus lithographer in his native Holland. By the time he arrived fresh and you can almost hear the sound of it moving and and the works in the exhibition. van der Velden – and Kees Bruin for in Christchurch, at the invitation of Gerrit van Asch, Petrus splashing on the rocks and smell the crisp, damp mountain Also over the Summer months, sitting for the Artist Profile in this was a full time artist and increasingly turning his attention air. Ansel Adams: Photographic Frontiers issue. to landscape painting. He settled in Christchurch and made This painting is a powerful statement about what our is an elegantly installed exhibition of I would like to take this opportunity his first trip to the Otira Gorge in 1891. rivers were like when Europeans first settled here. We need works by one of the world’s best-known to wish our much-appreciated donors, Otira held a fascination for him, and he has left us a these reminders of the unspoiled nature of the natural photographers. Ken Hall, who curated sponsors, Friends and other supporters wonderful legacy of paintings depicting the wildness of the environment 150 years ago to give us a yardstick on how we the show, writes about the artist and the best for the festive season, and may gorge and the river in its pristine state. His trips to Otira should manage our rivers, and that most precious resource, some of the works in the ‘Museum Set’ it be a happy new year for us all! could not have been easy; he would have had to travel over water, in today’s world. – the photographs selected by Ansel difficult roads as there was no viaduct in those days. Petrus This is a beautiful painting that makes our lives richer. Adams as the best of his career. overcame these adversities and discomforts to produce It is part of our heritage and I am pleased to know the We are very grateful to Ansel’s something of beauty, and this should be an inspiration to City has the painting for posterity as part of our splendid daughter, Anne Adams Helms, for everyone of us. Best of all, he has left us a wonderful early Christchurch Art Gallery collection. the generous loan of her personal record of one of our great river gorges. ‘Museum Set’ from her father, and to Dr Michael Adams, her brother, for his Art/Speak piece in this issue of Bulletin. Dr Adams spent some of his youth assisting his father in his 2 3 Noteworthy Noteworthy $34.99 See Ansel Adams Best Design Awards Reasons for Voyaging School Holiday for FREE 2005 Full Moon Cycles Programme Don’t miss two great opportunities Once again, Bulletin wins an award! Stroll through the Gallery’s The latest Holiday Quiz for the to save on tickets to the popular At the 2005 Designers Institute of Sculpture Forecourt this summer Christmas school holidays is exhibition Ansel Adams: New Zealand BEST Design Awards and watch the stately, curved vanes Line Dance, with new drawing Photographic Frontiers! Keep your in September, the Summer issue of Reasons for Voyaging by local activities for children. This fun Quiz eye out for coupons in The Press of b.139 won the Editorial & Books artist Graham Bennett rotate to introduces children to the many over December and January and you category. Designed by Stephen celebrate each new moon. skills associated with making and could see the exhibition for free on McCarthy and Jeff Docherty at The sculpture forms a welcoming looking at art. Ideal for family groups Wednesday, 11 January, or take part Strategy Advertising & Design, pathway to the Gallery. 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