Cinema & Jim Davis Oskar Fischinger Painting William Fox Hollis Frampton Ken Jacobs Lumière Company Opening Tuesday 11 February, 6–8pm Len Lye Martin Rumsby performs Hollis Frampton’s Colin McCahon A LECTURE (1968) at 7pm Anthony McCall Judy Millar www.adamartgallery.co.nz Matt Saunders 11 February–11 May 2014 Phil Solomon Diana Thater Curated by Michelle Menzies and Daniel Morgan Cinema & Painting examines the intersection of two screen-based arts against the backdrop of a culture characterised by the increasing plasticity of pictorial surfaces and flexibility of viewing spaces. Turning to contemporary and historical artists who engage the relation between the screen and the space that projects from it, the exhibition maps the genealogy and continuing life of a modernist tradition of depth. In three thematic suites, this exhibition combines volumetric cinemas and paintings that spill off the wall. It offers exemplars of a strain of aesthetic practice in which the interrogation of a haptic surface accompanies a commitment to the formal complexity of images. By addressing the materiality of projective space—that physical zone beyond the picture plane activated by the body of the spectator in conjunction with the beam of the projector or the intricacies of painted forms— Cinema & Painting examines the interconnection of these arts not only in pictorial but in explicitly phenomenological terms. Talks and Discussions Film Programme The exhibition will be opened by Roger Horrocks, Turbulence: The Ocean Ken Jacobs’ Volumetric Re-Make: GDBY PK P biographer of Len Lye and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Film, Television and Media as Cinematic Space Screen: Five Decades of Curated by Mark Williams, Director of CIRCUIT Studies at the University of Auckland Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand Curated with Philippe-Alain Michaud, Curator 3D Cinema of Film, Georges Pompidou Centre, France Lucien Rizos, GDBY PK P, 2013, Digital video, Curators’ Tour with Ken Jacobs, The Guests, 2013, 3D DCP, b/w, colour, sound, 89mins Nathaniel Dorsky, Alaya, 1976 – 87, 16mm, b/w, surround-sound, 74 mins (World Premiere!) Judy Millar silent, 28 mins preceded by: Lucien Rizos remakes Geoff Murphy’s Kiwi film Ken Jacobs, Opening The Nineteenth Century: classic Goodbye Pork Pie (1981). Followed by a Join curators Michelle Menzies and Daniel Morgan, Heinrich Hauser, WINDJAMMER UND 1896, 1990, Pulfrich 3D, b/w, colour, sound, 9mins conversation between Williams and Rizos. in conversation with artist Judy Millar, for a tour of JANMAATEN. DIE LETZTE SEGELSCHIFFE Cinema & Painting. (Windjammer and Sailors: The Last Sailboats), The charismatic grandfather of American avant- Presented with CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video 1930, 35mm, b/w, silent, 48 mins garde cinema presents a new 3D film. Ken Jacobs Aotearoa New Zealand: www.circuit.org.nz Wednesday 12 February, 12pm Live music accompaniment by Jonathan Berkahn studied painting with the Abstract Expressionists, Adam Art Gallery on piano accordion and has made 3D movies for over five decades. … when something is happening here something else is happening over there – John Baldessari Two film poems explore the atmospheric drama of 2D is a remarkable invention, crazier than most Curator’s Tour with an interaction of sea, sky, and sand in this special anything that can happen in 3D. Imagine the world Saturday 12 April, 6pm “live” cinema event. Generously supported by the flattened to a single insubstantial plane, a mere New Zealand Film Archive Wellington Diana Thater Embassy of France. surface reflection! I must look into it. – Ken Jacobs $10/$8 entry Join artist Diana Thater and curator Michelle The river is within us, the sea is all about us. Thursday 27 March, 6pm For full details of the public programme Menzies for a conversation and tour of – T.S. Eliot Light House Cinema Cuba, Wellington associated with Cinema & Painting visit Cinema & Painting. $10/$8 entry www.adamartgallery.org.nz Saturday 22 February, 6pm Saturday 10 May, 12pm New Zealand Film Archive Wellington Adam Art Gallery $10/$8 entry Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi Victoria University of Wellington Gate 3, Kelburn Parade Wellington 6140, New Zealand + 64 4 463 5229 [email protected] Parking is free and available on weekends in any of the unreserved carparks accessible via Gates 1, 6 & 7 Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm Free Entry www.adamartgallery.org.nz Right: Heinrich Hauser, film still from WINDJAMMER UND JANMAATEN - DIE LETZTE SEGELSCHIFFE, 1930, 35mm, b/w, silent, 48mins. Collection of EYE Film Institute Netherlands. Verso: Judy Millar, working model for new work, 2013. Courtesy the artist..