On Show EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS AT AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TĀMAKI AUGUST / SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2006 // FREE (Red Alert) 2006 (detail) installation with beans, corn and rice. Courtesy of the artist Alerta Roja Lucia Madriz lives and works in San José, Costa Rica PRESENTED BY - THE AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI IN PARTNERSHIP WITH: + ARTSPACE + THE GUS FISHER GALLERY + ST PAUL STREET GALLERY + 09 MARCH—03 JUNE 2007 AUCKLAND/ NEW ZEALAND CURATOR/ VICTORIA LYNN 3RD AUCKLAND TRIENNIAL WWW.AUCKLANDARTGALLERY.GOVT.NZ Open Daily 10am to 5pm Free guided tours 2pm daily Free entry to collection exhibitions Admission fee applies to some temporary exhibitions From the Main reception: 09 307 7700 Infoline: 09 379 1349 www.aucklandartgallery.govt.nz Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Director P O Box 5449, Wellesley Street, Auckland Main Gallery: Corner Wellesley and Kitchener Streets New Gallery: Corner Wellesley and Lorne Streets Research library: 09 307 7714 Open Tuesday & Wednesday 10.30am to 4pm Education service: 09 307 7728 Friends of the Gallery: 09 307 7705 Auckland Art Gallery Café (Main Gallery): 09 377 9603 Reuben Café (New Gallery): 09 302 0226 On Show Edited by Jennifer Dann Designed by Inhouse Printed by Spectrum Print Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki relies on Welcome to the inaugural issue system to meet the building’s the good will and generosity of corporate of On Show, a publication that new focus as our principal venue partners. We are delighted to acknowledge their ongoing support. will headline key events at the from next year. gallery as we prepare to shift gear and head into our major Returning to new publications, building development project. later this year the gallery will Replacing Gallery News for the launch Reading Room, New time being but expanding on its Zealand’s first peer reviewed distribution, On Show includes journal of art history. We hope much of the same information it encourages new research – exhibitions and events, project and new writing that will Chris Saines, Director, updates, recent acquisitions and significantly add to the current Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki news from the Friends of the spectrum of art publishing Gallery. Combined with public in this country. Dr John Mayo, programme highlights, On Show through the Marylyn Mayo will help visitors get to and Foundation, has generously around the gallery. supported the production of Reading Room. The same This shift in format coincides foundation, established with the re-opening of the New in memory of his wife, Gallery following several months also supports the gallery’s of renovation, much of it focused internship programme. on accommodating an interim painting conservation laboratory By contrast, you will find on level one and re-fitting the On Show to be a concise ground floor studio as a new publication that will become base for the gallery’s Ministry your indispensable guide for of Education-funded Learning visiting the gallery. I encourage Cover image: Experiences Outside the you to read on and hope to see Ronnie van Hout, detail from Eyeball 2001, Lambda print, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Classroom programme. We have you in the gallery soon. Tāmaki, purchased 2003 also taken the opportunity to upgrade the air-conditioning — Chris Saines 1 From left to right: The main gallery. Dr Joyce Townsend takes samples from Wings Over Water at Tate Britain. Frances Hodgkins Wings over Water c 1931-2 Lucia Madriz Alerta Roja 2006 A Mini Cooper was part of one News couple’s Art & the 60s experience. PROJECT ON TRACK SECRETS REVEALED REPEAT VISITS March, will delve into the MILLIONS GIFTED ART & THE 60s WIN: Members of the public recently The gallery’s principal conserva- PAY OFF turbulent times in which we The gallery’s $90 million Christchurch mother Jan Wilson had the chance to express their tor Sarah Hillary has uncovered Frances Hodgkins fan Susan live. “At no time in history have development has received adored zipping around Auckland opinions on the gallery the structural secrets of Frances Dunster won two return flights so many people been moving a massive funding boost with in a new Mini Cooper provided development. The resource Hodgkins’ Wings Over Water to Singapore in a competition around the globe. This a grant of $6.5 million from by Team McMillan Mini during consent application prompted c1931-2, aiding efforts to run during the Leitmotif movement of peoples is both in the ASB Community Trust, an Art & The 60s weekend 25 public submissions – conserve the expat artist’s oil exhibition. The prize, sponsored the spirit of hope and in the now the project’s most getaway. The 44-year-old won 16 opposed and 9 in support, paintings. Hillary carried out a by Singapore Airlines, attracted spirit of despair, as travellers significant donor. Gallery a Tourism Auckland competition including the New Zealand technical examination of the a staggering 6,705 entries. take a tourist route, immigrants director Chris Saines is promoting the exhibition in Historic Places Trust. As On work with Tate Britain scientist Dunster, a Coromandel artist, find new homes and asylum delighted the Trust decided Wellington and Christchurch. Show went to print, an Dr Joyce Townsend. She is so keen on Hodgkin’s work seekers go in search of to raise its initial commitment “I’m a mad mini fan. It’s such independent planning commis- analysed pinprick-sized samples she visited the exhibition three sanctuary,” she says. “Feelings as significant backing from a wonderful package,” she says. sioner was expected to have from existing damages to reveal times. “I couldn’t keep away. of hope, passion, sustenance, the key regional funder has Wilson and her husband stayed heard submitters speak. the artist added chalk and I also read the book, so then to the capacity to dream and find encouraged others to come free at CityLife Auckland The gallery is confident their pigments to her paint to create get a big prize on top of it made refuge are countered by the on board. “Their confidence A Heritage Hotel for two nights concerns can be addressed texture and her famous colours. it a very rich experience all sensations of loss, fear, anguish, gives me even more certainty and visited Art & the 60s. with ease. The main gallery is Using X-rays and ultraviolet light round.” Singapore Airlines grief and anger. Such emotions we’re doing the right thing “I don’t know much about art due to close in late December. she showed the painting was hoped the competition would arise from the complex and in the right place at the right in the 60s, so I thought it was We will continue to operate substantially reworked, even encourage locals to visit the changing cultural and political time,” he says. Trust chief a good opportunity to learn. from the New Gallery until the after it was exhibited in 1932. exhibition. environment. They are executive Jennifer Gill says; It’s fantastic!” Heritage Hotel main gallery re-opens in 2010. Numerous layers of wet paint everywhere and they are “We’re sure this extra injection spokeswoman Susan Gibson were too heavy for the canvas, TRIENNIAL CONCEPT nowhere – providing the of funds will make an immedi- says Art & the 60s sparked huge causing cracks to develop. The ANNOUNCED ambient emotional background ate and significant difference interest among hotel guests. She findings have been published by The concept is set for the of daily life. Turbulence is not so to the success of the project.” hoped the competition stimulated Tate Papers online. 3rd Auckland Triennial, New much about where one is from, Auckland City Council has others to travel to see it too. www.tate.org.uk Zealand’s largest and most or where one is going, but the contributed $25 million to the prestigious international art pervading emotional states that project, leaving $65 million to exhibition. Curator Victoria Lynn emerge from real and imagined be raised. says turbulence, opening next journeys.” Lynn says Auckland is uniquely placed to engage in such themes. 2 3 Named in honour of artist Wet Social Sculpture invites Robinson’s contemporary THE WALTERS PRIZE Gordon Walters and modelled visitors to combat the winter Humours are sculptural objects cold by slipping inside a which appear to be remnants 2 SEPTEMBER – 19 NOVEMBER 2006 on Tate Britain’s Turner Prize, bubbling spa pool. Whale music from a painter’s studio. The the Walters Prize is New and psychedelic imagery are Comprised of materials like NEW GALLERY Zealand’s most prestigious provided to transport the mind fimo and hardened paint and body. Complete with hygiene pigment, they are a strikingly Adult $7. Concession $5. contemporary art award. specifications, bathrobes and visceral and tactile foray into Family $18. Under 5 free. Friends of the Gallery $4. An independent jury has pool chemicals, Brennan’s the base elements of form final four installation encourages a and function. Founding benefactors selected four finalists for their dramatically different approach Upritchard’s Doomed, Doomed and principal donors: outstanding contribution to for gallery-goers. In Polar All Doomed presents an array Erika and Robin Congreve The Walters Prize New Zealand art in the past Projects, the unearthly realm of objects simultaneously and Jenny Gibbs two years. Their works are of Antarctica is presented exotic, endearing, and familiar. Major donor: Dayle Mace through the eyes and ears of Creatures emerge from old exhibited for judging by one of New Zealand’s foremost vessels, shonky home-made Founding principal sponsor an international expert on inter media artists. Dadson objects take the place of precious From left: 3 October. collected moving image and items and ordinary or broken Stella Brennan, detail from sound during a residency on things have acquired caricatured Wet Social Sculpture 2005 the frozen continent to develop features.