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Auckland Art Gallery Director Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Art Gallery As regular readers will know, for at the Centre Georges Pompidou sometime I have normally begun (1982-90), the Galerie National It’s your gallery. It’s free and it’s in the heart of Auckland City this column with an update on the du Jeu de Paume (1990-94), and gallery’s long-planned building the Witte de With centre for EXPLORE Our collection is the finest in the AMUSE Children are welcome and there’s development project. In the last contemporary art in Rotterdam country with 14,000 works spanning seven plenty to keep small hands busy in our Kids issue, I indicated we were on the (2002-04). centuries. Free guided tours are held daily Club and holiday art programmes. edge of commencing construction, at 2pm. pending the required resource She is highly regarded for her DISCOVER Like to know more about art? consents. Well, we are still groundbreaking role as director RELAX Catch up with friends at Reuben café We hold a mix of interesting events throughout balancing on that same meta- of documenta X, in 1997, and for overlooking Khartoum Place. the year. Come along and learn something new. phorical edge, three months her acclaimed touring project on from my last column, but Contemporary Arab Represen- the balance is at last tipping tations 1 and 2, produced in ENJOY Don’t miss the super sale at our gallery JOIN Become a Friend of the Gallery and open us toward a resolution. association with the Tàpies shop. Hundreds of items are reduced to clear. the door to a stimulating world of art and artists. Foundation in 2003. More At the time of writing, we are recently, she was a Fellow of finalising the detail of some the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Admission charges apply for special exhibitions. conditions newly attached (2005-06), where she worked to the ‘in-principle’ resource toward a project entitled consents we obtained in a Di/Visions: Culture and politics December Environment Court of the Middle East, and was given ruling, and I remain hopeful that an award for curatorial excellence these can be resolved within from the Centre for Curatorial Proudly printed by coming weeks. I recognise this Studies at Bard College (2008). is a frustrating degree of inching progress, particularly with the I look forward to the opening main building closed to the public of the 2008 Walters Prize since March, but we are doing exhibition in September, our everything in our power to move fourth, and to Catherine David’s this project forward. visit in late October. Her guest lecture on 30 October, presented The gallery’s programme with the assistance of AUT continues unabated at the University, promises to be a New Gallery with a strong line- highlight, as does the gala dinner up of exhibitions and public on October 31. I hope you can events, including the 2008 Walters continue to be part of the gallery’s Prize. In that context, I am thrilled community of support through to announce this year’s visiting a time of substantial change and judge is to be Paris-based curator challenge for us. Your support is Gordon Walters Maheno 1981, and writer Catherine David. of immense encouragement to us. acrylic on canvas, Auckland Catherine has worked at the Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, purchased 1982 National Museum of Modern Art Chris Saines 1 UNTIL 24 AUGUST Turuki Turuki! NEW GALLERY Adult $7 Concession $5, News Families $18, Under 5s free. Paneke Paneke! Free on Mondays. Left: artist impression of an exhibition space in the main gallery Below left: Selwyn Wilson Below: painting conser- Study of a head 1948 vator Ingrid Ford However, visitors to that inaugural show recognised the artists clearly defined another kind of Māori art, not seen before. Hotere, Mataira, Walters, Arnold Wilson and Selwyn Wilson, all of whom had tertiary level education in art teaching or fine art training, represented a new generation of Māori artists who drew on their backgrounds as teachers, visual artists and craftspeople, as well as their deeper cultural histories and LERY_DEVELOPMENT_/_MARIE_BALTUSOVA_/_CONSERVATION_GRANT_/_GALLERY_DEVE identities to create a contempo- ELOPMENT_/_MARIE_BALTUSOVA_/_CONSERVATION_GRANT_/_GALLERY_DEVELOPMENT_ rary indigenous art movement. GALLERY DEVELOPMENT MARIE BALTUSOVA CONSERVATION GRANT Turuki Turuki! Paneke Paneke! The Auckland Art Gallery’s The gallery has appointed Painting conservator Ingrid presents art work from the development project is Marie Baltusova as an Ford will attend a five-day original exhibition and other continuing with the LEOTC Educator to assist its workshop at the Centre for works sourced from the late Environment Court finalising education programme. Marie Contemporary Art Conser- 1950s and early 1960s that its conditions of consent. hails from Brno, in the Czech vation, Gallery of Modern Art As Turuki Turuki! Paneke a contemporary review entitled captures the turning point when This process has required Republic, where she was an art in Brisbane. Ingrid received Paneke! When Maori Art ‘Māori fullback goes in for Māori art became contemporary Auckland City Council to teacher to the visually impaired a grant from Creative New Became Contemporary abstract painting’ that appeared and acknowledges the place provide the court with – a role that included working Zealand, as well as funding draws to an end, Auckland in the Auckland Star. these five artists hold as specific details surrounding with the National Gallery of from the gallery to attend the Art Gallery Indigenous Art pioneers and innovators the masterplan area – the Brno. Marie says the most workshop ‘New Methods for curator Ngahiraka Mason, The modest original exhibition in their fields. landscaped area between rewarding part of her role is Cleaning’. The field of reflects on the groundbreaking – featured the work of Ralph the gallery building and introducing children to art and conservation continually grows show that marked a cultural Hotere, Katerina Mataira, On Show printed an incorrect Albert Park. Once the court watching them expand their and expands its knowledge of renaissance and the beginnings Muru Walters, Arnold Wilson image and image credit in our is satisfied with the understanding of the world as a materials and research, with of the contemporary Māori and Selwyn Wilson – took place last edition. The artwork was conditions of consent, result. “I enjoy teaching children Europe and the United States art movement. in the Princes Street Adult misidentified and wrongly the council can move into to make their own art as it often paving the way. “This is Education rooms at The credited to Selwyn Wilson. the construction phase of expands their horizons and a rare opportunity for us in the Turuki Turuki! Paneke Paneke! University of Auckland, 50 years We regret this error and the project. helps them to express southern hemisphere to be able commemorates and celebrates ago. It had no title, no curator apologise to Jim Allen and themselves,” Marie says. to participate in a workshop of an exhibition that could have or named venue and the artists to Selwyn Wilson’s family. this calibre and intensity,” easily gone unnoticed by art were practically unknown at Ingrid says. historians if it had not been for the time. August, September, October 2008 2 3 13 SEPTEMBER From left to right: Edith Amituanai TO 23 NOVEMBER House of Manu 2007, Lisa Reihana Maui 2007 from Digital Marae, John Reynolds Cloud 2006, Peter Robinson NEW GALLERY Installation view of ACK 2006 2008 Exhibition Entry Applies The Walters Prize is New (2002), Et Al (2004) and Francis Elizabeth Caldwell, Andrew National Museum of Modern collaborations between enquires phone Carla Frater Zealand’s premium visual Upritchard (2006). Clifford and Rhana Davenport, Art at the Centre Georges institutions in the Arab world on (09) 375 3365 or email carla. arts award that celebrates recommended four Pompidou and Galerie National and the art world. Her acclaimed [email protected] excellence in contemporary art. Every two years a national jury outstanding art projects: du Jeu de Paume, Paris.