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Russian Art in New Zealand
Starting Date: Saturday, 20 June 2009
Finishing Date: Sunday, 20 September 2009
Commissioned to coincide with I was Russia this exhibition explores the rich holdings of Russian art in New Zealand private and public collections. Developed by Dunedin’s very own Russian art expert Peter Stupples, Russian Art in New Zealand traces the diverse wealth of visual material that has emerged in this culture from its glorious Ikon traditions to its eminent modernists.
The exhibition includes works by Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, a cluster of major works by Natalia Goncharova and the largest collection of Russian Ikons ever shown in Dunedin.
Artist unknown Icon. Deesis Triptych late 18thC. (centre panel)
tempera on gesso on limewood
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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I Was Russia
Starting Date: Saturday, 6 June 2009
Finishing Date: Sunday, 6 September 2009
Curated by Marcus Williams (New Zealand) and Konstantin Skotnikov (Russia) this exhibition brings together for the first time in New Zealand a rich collection of works by some of the most influential figures in Russian art today. I was Russia promises to be a visually rich and intellectually stimulating exhibition that will provide a unique insight into this burgeoning contemporary art scene. It showcases the work of the internationally renowned artists Alexander and Olga Florensky, Oleg Kulik, Leonid Tichkov, Dmitry Bulnegin, and the influential art collective Factory of Found Clothing and Blue Noses Group.
The Blue Nose Group
Pushkin-Christ-Puten 2004
photographic print
594 X 840mm
Image courtesy of the artists
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Ey! Iran: Contemporary Iranian photography
Starting Date: Saturday, 6 June 2009
Finishing Date: Sunday, 16 August 2009
Ey! Iran depicts a surprisingly familiar culture – with narratives of family life, suburban sprawl and poignant observations on a country immersed in longstanding customs and traditions. The artists explore issues of identity, gender and social restrictions and by doing so capture a side of Iran which is often contrary to that presented by western media.
Shadi Ghadirian Untitled 1
From the series Like Everyday 2001
Type C photograph Courtesy of the artist
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Frances Hodgkins: femme du monde
Starting Date: Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Finishing Date: Sunday, 25 October 2009
Frances Hodgkins is one of New Zealand’s most loved and critically acclaimed artists. As an expatriate Hodgkins spent the majority of her artistic career in Britain eventually establishing a name a leading Modernist, but despite this she always maintained strong connections with family, benefactors and key supporters in Dunedin. This exhibition brings together a selection of key works from public holdings in Dunedin to celebrate the 140th anniversary of this artist’s birth.
Frances Hodgkins
Double Portrait 1922-25 [detail]
Oil on canvas
Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hakena
University of Otago
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Ben Buchanan: Sleeps
Starting Date: Saturday, 25 April 2009
Finishing Date: Friday, 26 June 2009
The catalyst for Ben Buchanan’s installation in the BNZ Gallery is his assemblage in the Rear Window space on Moray Place. In both these artworks there is an infectious playfulness with materials, pattern and the artist’s points of reference. This is geometric abstraction funked-up and cranked out through a sub-woofer; there is no room here for a placid navel-gazing encounter.
Ben Buchanan
Untitled 2009 [detail]
Acrylic on canvas.
Courtesy of the artist.
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Di ffrench: Activating Ideas
Starting Date: Saturday, 14 March 2009
Finishing Date: Sunday, 17 May 2009
Di ffrench: Activating Ideas is the first major survey of this artist's work since her untimely death a decade ago and brings together twenty years of work (1977-1997), which moves between sculpture, performance, photography and film. One of the pioneering figures in the development of multi-media and cross-disciplinary studio practice, this timely exhibition, curated by Ann Kirker, provides a new opportunity to reassess ffrench's strong and unique vision that consistently sought to address contemporary political, gender and social concerns.
Di ffrench
The Useful Idiot and Arnolfini’s Hat 1984 cibachrome
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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Te Huringa/Turning Points
Starting Date: Saturday, 14 March 2009
Finishing Date: Sunday, 7 June 2009
Te Huringa / Turning Points presents a diverse range of works devoted to the representation of Māori and Māori subject matter by Pākehā and the way in which Māori art practitioners have reflected their own ideas and concerns. The works chart a visual history of this country’s journey from early European contact (the earliest works in the exhibition are hand coloured engravings of Māori architecture, weaponry and utensils from 1826), through settlement, colonisation, protest to mana renewed.
The exhibition includes work by Francis Dillon Bell, Shane Cotton, Augustus Earle, Robert Ellis, Charles Goldie, Michael Hight, Robyn Kahukiwa, Colin McCahon, Selwyn Muru, Buck Nin, Peter Robinson, and Gordon Walters.
Francis Dillon Bell
New Zealand Bush c.1845 Watercolour
The Fletcher Trust Collection
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Catharine Hodson: Touching the Unthinkable
Starting Date: Saturday, 28 February 2009
Finishing Date: Sunday, 24 May 2009
Catharine Hodson’s encounter and successful treatment for breast cancer seven years ago was the starting point for Touching the Unthinkable. As part of her research into this disease and its clinical treatment Hodson built up a rich body of information that included recording other women’s experiences and that of friends, family and medical professionals. Touching the Unthinkable is not only a response to this primary material it is an installation that deals with the representation and coding of illness as understood through a contemporary art context.
Catharine Hodson
Touching the Unthinkable
2005
Installation detail, Suter Art Gallery
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John James Audubon: a very special gift
Starting Date: Sunday, 15 February 2009
Finishing Date: Monday, 13 April 2009
Mrs Edi Allshouse, who gifted this art collection to the gallery, is a descendant of the great American natural history painter, John James Audubon (1785-1851). His publication Birds of America is often regarded as the greatest picture book ever produced. This exhibition has works from John James Audubon’s personal collection, including beautiful colour lithographs of birds, exquisite drawings by Peter Rindisbacher, and paintings by two New Zealand artists – James Nairn and D.K. Richmond.
Joseph Bartholomew Kidd
Slate Coloured Junco 1831-1833
Oil on board. Given to the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in 2007 by Mrs Edi Allshouse.
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Michael Morley: You Say You Don’t Love Me
Starting Date: Saturday, 28 March 2009
Finishing Date: Sunday, 21 June 2009
Michael Morley has been under the pump over the last couple of months producing a seemingly endless series of circular paintings for his Big Wall installation. You Say You Don’t Love Me is not only an exuberant response to this site it is also a key into Morley’s long standing in the experimental noise/sound scene. Take a closer look at this map of discs and you will realise that they are hand-painted 7” records – truly a wall of sound.
Michael Morley
Sadness Sings 2006
Acrylic and gesso on 45rpm records.
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
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Frances Hodgkins: Family and Friends
Starting Date: Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Finishing Date: Sunday, 9 August 2009
This exhibition, drawn from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection, complements Frances Hodgkins: femme du monde and features works of art made by the artist’s family and circle of friends.
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Joanna Langford: The Landless
Starting Date: Saturday, 8 August 2009
Finishing Date: Sunday, 8 November 2009
Known for creating magical worlds where deceptively simple architectural structures are formed from a rich combination of ephemeral materials that are lifted from their humble and everyday realm, Joanna Langford is creating a new installation for the Gallery.
The Landless sees Langford interconnecting over a dozen modular clotheshorses that will fill-up the gallery space, as they become the physical and conceptual mainframe for a labyrinth of miniature stairwells, towers and lighting rigs.
Joanna Langford The beautiful and the damned 2008 (installation
detail)
Courtesy of the artist
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Kind of Blue: new acquisitions and loans
Starting Date: Saturday, 29 August 2009
Finishing Date: Sunday, 6 December 2009
Over recent years the Dunedin Public Art Gallery has been strategically collecting, through acquisition as well as loans, a number of significant artworks by a range of contemporary artists from New Zealand and overseas. Kind of Blue provides an opportunity for a select group of these stunning photographs, sculptures and paintings by a range of emerging and established artists to be exhibited together for the first time.
Artists represented include: Yvonne Todd, Jude Rae, Ben Cauchi and Spencer Finch.
Spencer Finch Ice Cave Fox Glacier 2008 [detail]
neon tube and gel
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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Bill Culbert and Ralph Hotere: P.R.O.P.
Starting Date: Thursday, 25 June 2009
Finishing Date: Sunday, 14 February 2010
This highly charged installation piece was originally made in response to changes made to the headland at Observation Point, and is an important reminder that artists throughout history have both galvanised socio-political issues and been agents for holding powerful organizations to account. P.R.O.P. is one of the first major collaborative works by Ralph Hotere and Bill Culbert, who share a profound and ongoing connection with the Port Chalmers community, and has been the catalyst for a number of other substantial projects.
Bill Culbert and Ralph Hotere
P.R.O.P. 1991 (detail)
corrugated iron and neon tube lights
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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Tom Kreisler
Starting Date: Saturday, 26 September 2009
Finishing Date: Sunday, 21 February 2010
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1938-2002) Tom Kreisler spent the majority of his life in New Zealand where he became an influential painter, thinker, poet and teacher leaving an indelible presence within this country’s art community. Tom Kreisler showcases over sixty paintings in a range of media and includes a rich spectrum of drawings, altered ready-mades and personal writings, which span a thirty-year period. As a cultural outsider, Kreisler often produced work that disturbed or questioned notions around what might be considered the 'typical' and found the strange within seemingly mundane items: a tap, table or coat. He was also interested in blurring the relationship between image and word (often utilizing several languages) to create darkly humorous plays on cliché and the everyday.
Toured by the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery with the support of Creative New Zealand, Aalto Colour, umbrella design and Viewfinder.
Tom Kreisler
A Brush With Death 2001
acrylic on canvas
Courtesy Tom Kreisler Estate
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David Clegg: Rerecordings 2006-2009
Starting Date: Saturday, 3 October 2009
Finishing Date: Sunday, 24 January 2010
David Clegg’s Visiting Artist Programme exhibition brings together a series of digital photographs and audio recordings simultaneously featuring specific locations in the urban landscape. Clegg is interested in the discussion that these parallel locations will elicit in terms of place, culture and history but also how a photographic and audio archive shapes our understandings of these ideas. Rerecordings 2006-2009 will showcase the recordings this artist made in Dunedin earlier this year alongside previous recordings, assembled here for the first time, which were made in Santiago, Chile in 2006.
David Clegg
Pasaje Plaza de Armas
(Calle Monjitas to Santo Domingo)
Santiago, Chile
28 September 2006 11:32:42 - 11:33:48
Image courtesy of the artist
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Miguel Angel Rios
Starting Date: Saturday, 3 October 2009
Finishing Date: Sunday, 24 January 2010
This is the first time New Zealand audiences will have the opportunity to see works by the acclaimed Argentinean born, New York and Mexico City based artist Miguel Angel Rios. The Dunedin Public Art Gallery is proud to be presenting the two videos White Suit (2008) and On the Edge (2005), which are both visually spellbinding and thrilling in terms of the cultural and political messages they contain. A senior figure in the Latin American art community Rios works across a diverse range of subject matter, media and ideas to produce both deeply evocative and profound artworks.
Miguel Angel Rios
White Suit 2008 (detail)
video still
Courtesy of the artist and EVO Gallery, Santa Fe
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Cho Duck Hyun, Dark Water: the Antipodes Project
Starting Date: Saturday, 21 November 2009
Finishing Date: Sunday, 7 March 2010
Dark Water: the Antipodes Project is an installation that South Korean artist Cho Duck Hyun produced in Auckland earlier this year in response to the short-term art in public sculpture series Living Room 09: My heart is where my home is, curated by Pontus Kyander.
Dark Water is an ongoing project in which a container is fictitiously transported through the Earth and then excavated from the underground to reveal a series of photo-realist portraits by Professor Cho Duck Hyun. This work continues the artist’s long interest in revealing and discussing the way patterns of migration have impacted on and also been hidden in recent social and cultural history.
Cho Duck Hyun
The Antipodes Project 2009
Installation shot, courtesy Starkwhite Gallery and the artist.
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Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Starting Date: Saturday, 12 December 2009
Finishing Date: Sunday, 30 October 2011
The Dunedin Public Art Gallery, established in 1884, was New Zealand’s first public art gallery.
To commemorate its 125th year, Beloved will showcase a selection of the historical and contemporary gems from the gallery's collection.
The exhibition and lavish accompanying publication celebrate the history of the collection, paying particular attention to some of the better known and favourite works.
Spanning a timeframe of more than 600 years, this rich body of work is both diverse in its content and in the range of media it brings together including painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper, installation and the decorative arts.
Solomon J. Solomon
Eros
Oil on canvas.
Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
Starting Date: Saturday, 19 December 2009
Finishing Date: Sunday, 9 May 2010
Photographer Taryn Simon has, in this exhibition, created a collection of photographs that documents the inaccessible places that exist below the surface of American identity. It took her as long as a year to gain permission to photograph some of the high-security zones on view in this body of work, like government-regulated quarantine sites, nuclear waste storage facilities, prison death rows and C.I.A. offices.
Because her approach tends to be very direct and unsentimental, some images look like they could be museum displays, which only makes these mysterious spaces even more curious and seductive. Through her work, the strangeness of American culture shines.
Taryn Simon
Nuclear Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility, Cherenkov Radiation, Hanford Site, U.S. Department of Energy, Southeastern Washington State.
Submerged in a pool of water at Hanford Site are 1,936 stainless-steel nuclear-waste capsules containing cesium and strontium. Combined, they contain over 120 million curies of radioactivity. It is estimated to be the most curies under one roof in the United States. The blue glow is created by the Cherenkov Effect which describes the electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle, giving off energy, moves faster than light through a transparent medium. The temperatures of the capsules are as high as 330 degrees Fahrenheit. The pool of water serves as a shield against radiation; a human standing one foot from an unshielded capsule would receive a lethal dose of radiation in less than 10 seconds. Hanford is among the most contaminated sites in the United States.
© 2007 Taryn Simon / Courtesy Steidl / Gagosian.
Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar is an Institute of Modern Art exhibition.
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