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Boys from the Black Stuff
Starting Date: Saturday, 10 December 2011
Finishing Date: Sunday, 17 June 2012
Boys from the Black Stuff brings together a selection of artworks from the Gallery's permanent and long-term loan collections.
Paying particular attention to contemporary New Zealand artist's who have employed humour as a means to disturb, unnerve and raise questions about arts place, value and authenticity, this exhibition promises to surprise and delight audiences as it slowly changes and evolves over the duration of its life.
Don Driver
Orange skinverted 1984
mixed media
Jim Barr and Mary Barr loan collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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Kabuki: The Art of Transformation
Starting Date: Saturday, 17 December 2011
Finishing Date: Sunday, 17 June 2012
This exhibition brings together a selection of Japanese prints from the F C W Staub loan collection, which feature a series of battle and theatre scenes.
Toyohara Kunichika
Actors on Parade in the Chu Shin Gura or The Loyal League of the Forty-
Seven Ronin
woodblock print on paper
F C W Staub loan collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
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Angels and Aristocrats
Starting Date: Saturday, 28 April 2012
Finishing Date: Sunday, 16 September 2012
Angels & Aristocrats has been years in the making and Dunedin is delighted to be the first venue of it’s New Zealand tour.
This major exhibition will occupy most of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery's ground floor galleries and features some of the finest examples of European art held in New Zealand including works by Breughel the Younger, Fuseli, Hobbema, Turner, Machiavelli, Reynolds, Gainsborough and many more.
These European treasures have been gathered together for the first time from New Zealand’s premier art collections held at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Sargeant Gallery and Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
Angels & Aristocrats is organised and toured by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, curated by Mary Kisler, Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.
Henry Raeburn
Master James Hay c. 1814
oil on canvas
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
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Frances Hodgkins: Kaleidoscope
Starting Date: Saturday, 28 April 2012
Finishing Date: Sunday, 28 October 2012
This exhibition brings together a group of recent additions to the Gallery's Frances Hodgkins holdings with a selection of paintings from the artist mid-to-late career. Kaleidoscope focuses on a set of fantastical artworks that capture this artist's intimate experiences and perspectives of familiar places and people.
rances Hodgkins
Still Life c.1942
pencil and watercolour on paper
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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Clemens von Wedemeyer: The Fourth Wall
Starting Date: Monday, 16 April 2012
Finishing Date: Sunday, 28 October 2012
The Fourth Wall is an ambitious installation by the highly respected German artist Clemens von Wedemeyer produced for Barbican Art Gallery, London, in 2009, and has been brought to New Zealand by Auckland’s St Paul Street Gallery and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. This intriguing film-based project, investigates the relationship between fact and fiction in documentary-making, paying particular attention to the famous discovery in 1971 of the Tasaday people in the Philippines, who were purportedly still living in a Stone Age situation untouched by the influences of civilization.
The exhibition is brought to New Zealand in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut with funding from the German Federal Foreign Office.
Clemens von Wedemeyer
The Fourth Wall: Reception
3 channel video installation, 13 min. , 2009
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Jacqueline Fraser: Te Wai Pounamu: the burial of our people
Starting Date: Saturday, 17 March 2012
Finishing Date: Sunday, 9 September 2012
To celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the iconic Big Wall, the Dunedin Public Art Gallery has reinstalled Jacqueline Fraser's Te Wai Pounamu: the burial of our people. Originally created for the opening of the newly located Gallery in the Octagon in May 1996, this massive installation is the only site specific Big Wall work in the Gallery's collection.
The works title and imagery makes clear reference to this Dunedin-born artist's geographical and cultural lineage, Te Wai Pounamu is the Maori name for the South Island, greenstone being the legendary treasure of the South Island Maori.
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Fiona Connor: Untitled (mural design)
Starting Date: Saturday, 28 April 2012
Finishing Date: Sunday, 12 August 2012
Untitled (mural design) is the second aspect of Fiona Connor's residency at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. In this exhibition, the artist has undertaken the reformulation of the existing exhibition Colourbox, which is comprised of a number of late twentieth century New Zealand neo-expressionist and colour field paintings from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery's holdings. Connor's 'resolved' exhibition includes the manufacturing of a portable hanging system, this allows for the removal of the paintings from the walls and re-hanging them as freestanding and moveable screens. As part of this process the artist will invite a series of people who are well versed in spatial and exhibition design, to reorganise the display over the duration of the show.
Fiona Connor
Untitled (mural design) 2012 installation detail
photograph courtesy of the artist and Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland
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Past and Future Clouds: New Zealand Weather from the Collection
Starting Date: Saturday, 12 May 2012
Finishing Date: Sunday, 17 June 2012
The New Zealand artists in this exhibition depict aspects of, or possibilities within, the New Zealand skies in ways that reflect the dynamics of our geographical location. Past and Future Clouds includes works in various media by artists such as Colin McCahon, Peter Robinson, Toss Woollaston, and Marilynn Webb.
Marilynn Webb
Cloud Pools, Ida Valley
1988
monotype
Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
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