by Sue on 22 March 2013
13 Rooms, the 27th Kaldor Public Art Project in Sydney is an ambitious event. Featuring 13 artists from around the world, including Damien Hirst, Marina Abramović, John Baldessari and Tino Sehgal, 13 Rooms is an innovative group exhibition of ‘living sculpture’ within 13 purpose-built...
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by Sue on 21 March 2013
Congratulations go to Simon Denny who has been included in The Encyclopedic Palace curated by Massimiliano Gioni for the 2013 Venice Biennale.
www.labiennale.org/en/art/exhibition/artists/
Photograph: Derek Henderson.
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by Sue on 18 March 2013
Adam Art Gallery, Wellington is hosting a discussion panel on the unique challenges to institutional art collections posed by the acquisition of media art, considered from the perspective of exhibition, collection and conservation practices.
Philip Dadson
Dadson is a pioneer of time-based...
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by Melanie on 26 February 2013
It was with much sadness that the Chartwell Trust learnt of the passing of Ralph Hotere in Dunedin. Hotere was a hugely respected artist and greatly valued for his outstanding contribution to the New Zealand culture. His life- long and deeply felt engagement with materials as well...
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by Melanie on 06 February 2013
Morris’ Wall Drawing was part of an exhibition, with 25 other NZ artists, at the Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, 2012. It showcased the best of Aotearoa’s young, mid-career and senior artists in an exhibition titled Contact, that explores how New Zealand and its art has been shaped by...
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by Melanie on 06 February 2013
Last year, Victoria Wynne-Jones attended the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) conference in Sydney to present a paper, “I will bark as a mad dog...” The conference was held in the third week of the Biennale of Sydney. Titled Together <> Apart it addressed...
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by Melanie on 29 January 2013
Donald Judd
Julian Dashper
PS, Amsterdam
27 January - 14 March 2013
www.psprojectspace.nl
From January 27 - March 24, 2013, the work Untitled (O), 1990 - 1992 by Julian Dashper will be exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication with...
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by Melanie on 19 January 2013
Bare Use
Fiona Connor
1301PE, Los Angeles
19 January - 23 February 2013
www.1301pe.com
"1301PE is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition with Los Angeles-based artist Fiona Connor. Working at the intersection of architecture, sculpture, and installation, Fiona Connor encourages us to...
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by Melanie on 16 January 2013
To the table by Justin Paton ›
Image: Bill Culbert, Plain of Jars, 1996.
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by Sue on 14 January 2013
Eye Contact, a review blog run by John Hurrell, recently presented a list of top exhibition picks for 2012.
Made Active: The Chartwell Show, at the Auckland Art Gallery in mid 2012, made the list as did some of the exhibitions from which Chartwell made subsequent acquisitions for the...
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by Sue on 12 December 2012
Chartwell congratulates Simon Denny who is to be awarded the University of Auckland 2013 Young Alumnus of the Year in a ceremony at the University in March 2013."The University of Auckland gave me the rudiments of a language that would enable me to communicate with people around the world," he said....
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by Melanie on 13 November 2012
Images of Made Active: The Chartwell Show are now online - view them here.
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by Sue on 23 October 2012
Kate Newby, represented in the Chartwell Collection, has been awarded the 2012 Walters Prize. See her Collection works here.
The $50,000 Walters Prize is awarded for an outstanding work of contemporary New Zealand art produced and exhibited during the past two years. Newby was nominated by...
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by Melanie on 20 October 2012
Fiona Moorhead, the Chartwell Registrar at Auckland Art Gallery, has written about some of the loans currently out at other institutions around New Zealand – including some from the Chartwell Collection. You can see Chartwell works Currently On Show here on our site but take a moment to read...
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by Sue on 18 October 2012
Thumbnail image: (Detail) Words Fail, 2011
Plans are underway for a tour of the hugely popular survey exhibition, Other Stories Stone Works: 2002 - 2012, by Joe Sheehan, an initiative of Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua, New Zealand. Some fifty works from both private and public collections have been...
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by Melanie on 14 October 2012
Congratulations to Inhouse, who were recently awarded a Bronze at the Best Awards for the publication they designed for the Made Active exhibition.
Design Director - Arch MacDonnell
Design Team - Toby Curnow, Sarah Gladwell
Contributors - Jennifer French
View more details and images...
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by Melanie on 14 October 2012
John Ward Knox, who has work in the Chartwell Collection (view here), is currently exhibiting in Frankfurt as part of the NZ exhibitions in association with the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair.
His work, No title, 2012, neon, is installed at the Frankfurter Kunstverein as part of the group exhibition...
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by Melanie on 01 October 2012
Coming up to the end of its 38th year of collecting contemporary New Zealand and Australian art – with some other international additions, it has been timely to look at the latest of acquisitions in 2012 and the very first ones in 1974.
The first work to enter the collection that year was...
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by Melanie on 30 September 2012
A video by Public Works Media showcasing the artworks as part of Reflect, a lighting journey of discovery across Auckland's central city waterfront held 20-22 and 26-29 July 2012, featuring works from the Chartwell Collection by Clinton Watkins and Héctor Zamora.
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by Melanie on 09 September 2012
Watermarking
David Bennewith, William Hsu and Marnie Slater
Curated by Melanie Oliver and Laura Preston
Liverpool Biennial 2012
15 September - 25 November 2012
www.wellingtoncitystates.info
The Liverpool Biennial, the United Kingdom’s largest international contemporary art festival, is...
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