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Video recording of Upright Piano, Samuel Holloway et al.

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT

Upright Piano, Samuel Holloway et al., is a recent acquisition to the Chartwell Collection. There is a performative aspect to the work, in which an invited pianist is involved. In the video below, Hermione Johnson performs the second realisation of Upright Piano, Samuel Holloway et al. on Saturday 20 April 2013, during the exhibition Michael Parekowhai et al. at Michael Lett.

Video recorded by Katherine Ross

Michael Lett »

City Gallery Wellington senior curator

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT

In May 2013, City Gallery Wellington announced the appointment of Robert Leonard to the position of Senior Curator.

Currently Director of Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art, Robert Leonard is one of New Zealand’s most experienced exhibition makers. Before moving to Brisbane in 2005 he was curator at New Plymouth's Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery and from 1997 to 2002 he directed Auckland's Artspace. He jokes that he ‘has played for both teams in all positions’.

City Gallery Wellington Director Elizabeth Caldwell says: ‘We are delighted that Robert Leonard will take up the position of Senior Curator in January 2014. He brings a wealth of curatorial experience, an exemplary track record of working closely with artists and a respected academic reputation to the role. I am excited to work with him to develop City Gallery Wellington’s programme”.

Robert Leonard curated the Chartwell show, Nine Lives, at Auckland Art Gallery in 2003.

Chartwell artists in Adam Art Gallery exhibition

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:00:00 GMT

http://www.adamartgallery.org.nz/

The 5th Auckland Triennial NZ artists

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:00:00 GMT

VENUES

Auckland Art Gallery
Artspace
Auckland Museum
Fresh Gallery Otara
George Fraser Gallery
Gus Fisher Gallery
NZ Film Archive
Silo Six
ST PAUL St

Ten artists and collectives from around New Zealand will present their work at If you were
to live here …, the free three-month festival of contemporary art that will be the largest
Auckland Triennial to date.

Curated by Hou Hanru, one of the most influential curators in the world today, the Triennial
will see local and international artists transforming Auckland spaces. The Triennial invites
discussion, the exchange of ideas and creates opportunities to collaborate and connect
with different partners and communities in and out of the city.

New Zealand artists of the 5th Auckland Triennial include:
Interdisciplinary artist Janet Lilo’s new video and sound installation, Right of
Way, 2013, which explores the Auckland artist’s neighbourhood and the people
who share her driveway. Right of Way captures the languages, music and sounds
around Lilo’s home in Avondale, Auckland and includes a 4,000 image
photomontage. Right of Way will show at Artspace, Karangahape Road.

Auckland-based artist Tahi Moore works across video, sound, sculpture and
performance. Exhibiting at Gus Fisher Gallery, Shortland St, Moore uses the
iconic building’s architecture and history, including its former life as the first
purpose built government radio station, to create playful sculptural objects and
five sci-fi videos.

Auckland artist, Peter Robinson was invited by Hou to create a site-specific work
at Auckland Museum. Playing with the hierarchy of workplaces and museum
protocols, Robinson asks museum staff to place colour-coded ‘sticks’ amongst the
museum’s exhibited artefacts. Robinson has recently exhibited at the 18th
Biennale of Sydney (2012) and will present at the upcoming 13th Istanbul
Biennale.

Saffronn Te Ratana, Ngataiharuru Taepa and Hemi Macgregor are
contemporary Māori artists from Palmerston North who combine their individual
practices. Exhibiting at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, their work Ka Kata Te
Po, 2011, is a large, striking installation exploring expressions of tribal authority
and the suppression of tribal voices surrounding the 2007 Urewera incident.

Frieze Art Fair New York- Sculpture Park

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:00:00 GMT

New Zealand artist Fiona Connor announced in Freize New York Sculpture Park...

Frieze is pleased to announce the artists that will be participating in the Sculpture Park at Frieze New York 2013. The Sculpture Park overlooks the East River and sits adjacent to the main fair structure in the unique setting of Randall’s Island Park, Manhattan.

The Sculpture Park at Frieze New York is selected by curator Tom Eccles from proposals by the fair’s participating galleries. An opportunity to see a significant group of public-scale sculpture, the Sculpture Park at Frieze New York includes internationally recognized artists, both established and emerging.

New work made for the 2013 Sculpture Park includes Paul McCarthy ’s Balloon Dog (2013), an 80-foot-high inflatable work, as well as pieces from: Fiona Connor, Style Guide Spa (2013); Saint Clair Cemin, Fotini (2013); Martha Friedman, _ Amygdalas_ (2013); and Nick Van Woert, Primitive (2013). Also on show will be works by artists: Tom Burr, Tom Friedman, Andreas Lolis, Charles Long, Jason Meadows, Pae White and Franz West.

Tom Eccles commented: ‘Building upon the success of last year, our aim for this new edition is to increase the ambition of the Sculpture Park program both in scope and scale. Placed in an exceptional location, the program will continue expanding visitors’ experience by displaying large outdoor sculptures in dialogue with ephemeral pieces. Both physical objects and works that help define our experience of the park itself, a space that offers both bucolic and urban conditions.’

Frieze New York will take place May 10–13, 2013 and will present over 180 of the world’s leading galleries. Frieze New York is sponsored by Deutsche Bank.

Imants Tillers- Australian Award 2013

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:00:00 GMT

Imants Tillers is the winner of the 2013 Wynne Prize, AGNSW, Sydney, Australia. See Tillers work in the Chartwell Collection HERE.

Winner: Archibald Prize 2013: Del Kathryn Barton

Ruth Buchanan in Melbourne

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:00:00 GMT

Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia presents:

LOOSELY SPEAKING
23.03.13 – 27.04.13

RUTH BUCHANAN (NZ), SARAH CROWEST, ADELLE MILLS

CURATED BY PIP WALLIS

Exhibition Dates: 23 March – 27 April 2013
Opening: Friday 22 March 2013, 6 – 8pm

Isn’t this entire, unending world constructed by the understanding out of incomprehensibility or chaos? [Schlegel]

Loosely Speaking makes a case for not-understanding. Language and coded behaviour can be restrictive in their clarity and this exhibition, curated by Pip Wallis, defies concrete logic in favour of indeterminacy. In this exhibition the artists Ruth Buchanan, Sarah Crowest and Adelle Mills extend the gap between comprehension and confusion, unfolding the potential for subversion and new ways of knowing that exist in the abstract.

Featuring work by three women, Loosely Speaking considers the politics of language. In each of these artists’ work abstraction and indecipherability are used as a polemic strategy of resistance – one that defies the authoritarian logic of definition and upends the inherent phallocentrism of language.

The artists use sound, video and sculpture to perform quietly radical gestures that point to the uncertain space between subjects. Loosely Speaking occupies this space and replaces the logic of semiotics with the poetics of art making where metaphor is material, syntax is spatial strategy and composition becomes choreography.

The work of Berlin based New Zealand artist Ruth Buchanan fractures the logics of language and speech. In an intimate audio work Buchanan compares conversation to shifting weather patterns, and an instructional library notice becomes an absurd poem that laughs wryly at the instability of language. Her work in the exhibition features a fabric installation that translates poetic devices of metaphor and syntax into spatial material and gently mocks our failed attempts to corral the world into categories and certainties.

Melbourne based artist Sarah Crowest’s practice is driven by intuition. In her work she follows impulses beyond the realm of understanding in the faith that they will generate new ways of knowing. Crowest’s works are a form of social mapping, composed of scraps of fabric that the artist cuts from other people’s clothes at social events.

In a new video work Melbourne artist Adelle Mills lays bare the predetermined modes of action and communication that are dictated by the spaces we move through. In this work four bodies repeat each others’ gestures through a live video loop that reveals the ‘gap’ of interpretation, or misinterpretation, that lurks in all our interactions.

Ruth Buchanan is represented by Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland.

Image: Adelle Mills, acting doing, 2013, double channel video still.

13 Rooms Performance Series 2013.

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:00:00 GMT

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 rooms. For 11 days only. 11-21 April 2013. Pier 2/3, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay. Free entry www.kaldorartprojects.org.au/13rooms

Chartwell Collection has works by Damien Hirst and John Baldessari, held at the Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand. See Hirst HERE and Baldessari HERE.

Image: Damien Hirst: 13 Rooms.

Simon Denny for Venice Biennale curated exhibition

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:00:00 GMT

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.

21st Century Custodianship:Collecting Media Art

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:00:00 GMT

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 practice, and founded the Department of Intermedia and Time Based Arts at the Elam School of Fine Arts in 1986. Videos from his Polar Projects series (2003-2005) are included in the exhibition 21^st-Century Collecting.

Lissa Mitchell
Mitchell was recently Collection Manager of Photography and New Media at Te Papa Tongarewa. An artist who has worked with celluloid and direct film, she has held conservator positions relating to photography and video at the New Zealand Film Archive and the National Library of New Zealand.

Mark Williams
Williams is founding Director of CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand. He has held positions at the New Zealand Film Archive and LUX Artist’s Moving Image, London, and is co-curator of the video exhibition Moving on Asia: Towards a New Art Network 2004-2013, currently on view at City Gallery Wellington.

This event is presented in conjunction with the Adam Art Gallery’s current exhibition, 21^st-Century Collecting: Recent Acquisitions from the VUW Art Collection, on view until 21 April 2013.

Wednesday 20 March 2013

Victoria University, Wellington

www.adamartgallery.org.nz

Ralph Hotere 1931-2013

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:00:00 GMT

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 as with social/political issues established him as a maker and master of artworks of enormous importance to our cultural identity as New Zealanders. His mural, The Flight of the Godwit (Godwit/Kuaka), in our Collection at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, is a much admired work of which we are most proud and which will forever celebrate his creative spirit and its connection with our place. It not only expresses the notion of travelling, be it by a little godwit, by people to and from Aotearoa or by the spirit undertaking a mysterious journey, but also expresses the joy of pulsating colour, musicality and the strength gained from song and poetry. Time is depicted in the work as viewers quite literally walk past its many panels- and that multi-directional journeying through time is pulled together by the gravitas of the dark circular forms at its very centre. “Scattering, gathering, forming a single unit...” the sense of journeying continues.

Image: The Flight of the Godwit (Godwit/Kuaka), 1977, enamel on board.

Simon Morris, Wall Drawing, Frankfurt 2012

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:00:00 GMT

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 colonisation and migration.

Morris’ work in the exhibition is closely related to Chartwell recent acquisition, 'Coloured Line 2012', but has 5 colours and covers a space that references a work by Blinky Palermo that exists in the same stair case.

Other artists in Contact included: Jim Allen, Edith Amituanai, Ruth Buchanan, Phil Dadson, Simon Denny, Alicia Frankovich, Marti Friedlander, Simon Glaister, Murray Hewitt, Simon Ingram, John Ward Knox, Janet Lilo, Len Lye, Alex Monteith, Fiona Pardington, Judy Millar, Dane Mitchell, Simon Morris, Campbell Patterson, Rachael Rakena, Lisa Reihana, Peter Robinson, Sriwhana Spong, Daniel von Sturmer, Francis Upritchard.

Curators: Leonhard Emmerling (DE, Munich) and Aaron Kreisler (NZ, Dunedin)

Victoria Wynne-Jones at AAANZ

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:00:00 GMT

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 major debates and issues raised by this year’s biennale theme ‘all our relations’. It focused on how networks of artists, curators, critics, museums, and publics structure art. What are the stakes, outcomes, and tensions of collaborations and partnerships between artists and art institutions? This question concerns historians and critics of art of all periods as well as being a live issue for art now and offers a coherent point of intersection for the AAANZ’s diverse constituencies.

Read "I will bark as a mad dog..." ›

Her paper Becoming dance, which addresses the issue of dance in the work of Kushana Bush, Francis Upritchard and Sriwhana Spong, (the latter two artists being represented in the Chartwell Collection), which was presented in 2011 at the University of Auckland Art History Postgraduate Conference, can also be read at the following link.

Read Becoming dance ›

Image: Joshua Rutter Dance Like A Butterfly Dream Boy (2012, performance, Aotea Centre as part of New Performance Festival, Auckland).

Julian Dashper - Donald Judd

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:00:00 GMT

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 contributions by Steffen Böddeker, Rudi Fuchs and WJM Kok.

Fiona Connor - Bare Use

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:00:00 GMT

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 reflect on physical surroundings by re-contextualizing objects and creating disruptions in the built environment. Her painstakingly fabricated replicas of everyday objects function both as sculpture to be perceived, and as stage pieces through which we can enact our own narratives.

Connor has often focused on the institutional space of the gallery or museum, engaging with the overlooked framework upon which art resides. In 2009 she replicated the façade of Michael Lett's gallery inside the gallery space, not once but fourteen times, literally putting the gallery on display. For What you bring with you to work (2010), she cut holes in the museum walls, placed window frames over the holes, and let us peer behind the scenes. These were not generic windows, however, but facsimiles of the bedroom windows of individual gallery attendants. More than simply institutional critique, this work offered an intimate look into the lives of others.

Her contribution to Made in L.A. 2012, the first Los Angeles biennial, was a replica of the first few steps of the Hammer Museum's marble staircase, placed across the lobby by the front windows. Titled Lobbies on Wilshire, her precise reproduction functioned as both mimetic sculpture and interactive environment.

"I am interested in laying one scripted space over another to explore the way art is approached and our boundaries of engagement, abandonment and empathy." – Fiona Connor

For Bare Use, Connor looks to the restorative oasis of the spa, fastidiously re-fabricating the typical objects that characterize this environment – water fountain, towel case, signs. She introduces these specific items to the gallery, investigating what happens when the elements of one specialized space collide with another. Her sculptures operate on both aesthetic and performative levels: they are works of art based on functional objects, and functional objects themselves, dislocated from their origins.

Fiona Connor was born in Auckland, New Zealand and lives and works in Los Angeles. She was included in the first Los Angeles biennial, Made in L.A. 2012 at the Hammer Museum, and her 2010 solo show Murals and Print was the inaugural exhibition at Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA. Recent group exhibitions include Gap, Mark, Sever and Return, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA; Concrete Situations, Pact, Essen, Germany; Experimental Impulse, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA; You Are Here, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand; and Octopus 8, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia. In 2010 she was a finalist for New Zealand's most prestigious contemporary art award, the Walters Prize."

Chartwell work featured on NZ at Venice Blog

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:00:00 GMT

To the table by Justin Paton ›

Image: Bill Culbert, Plain of Jars, 1996.

Chartwell show makes top picks list for 2012

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:00:00 GMT

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 Chartwell Collection including:

A World Undone, Nicholas Mangan, Hopkinson Cundy, 19 0ctober - 17 November

Hop Scotch, Anoushka Akel and Kim Pieters, Artspace, curated by Caterina Riva, 13 July - 18 August

Rob Gardiner and curator Natasha Conland talk about the show, Made Active: The Chartwell Show, 2012.

Simon Denny-2013 Young Alumnus Of The Year

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:00:00 GMT

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. "Denny has already established an international career as an artist, an outstanding achievement for a 29 year old from New Zealand," the University says. He was named as a winner of the Baloise Art Prize at the 43rd Art Basel recently and was one of four nominees for the German national Preis der Nationalgalarie fur junge Kunst 2013, which will be judged in September 2013. He was a recent finalist in the 2012 Walters Prize Award at Auckland Art Gallery and is represented in the Chartwell Collection.

Made Active: The Chartwell Show exhibition images

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:00:00 GMT

Images of Made Active: The Chartwell Show are now online - view them here.

Kate Newby Wins Walters Prize 2012

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:00:00 GMT

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 the jury for Crawl out your window, her 2010 solo exhibition at Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst (GAK), Bremen.

At the award dinner the international judge Mami Kataoka (Chief Curator at the Mori Art Museum (MAM) in Tokyo, Japan), made the following statement:

While Newby's work is probably the least eloquent by making minimal interventions into the given space it embraces memories of locations, her personal gestures and subtle actions, which viewers can relate to through small objects embedded into the concrete ramp and the materiality of the suspended fabric.

More importantly, the use of natural light and the way the work gradually crawls out of the museum space is the most reserved but radical way of transcending the fixed architectural space for contemporary art, liberating us towards wider universal space. The colour yellow emphasizes the cognition for the light and the space and the whole installation offers the physical experience and awareness of both void and silence. This decision is derived from my attempt to evoke a state of equilibrium in our ever competitive and hierarchical society and its abiding belief in power.

The Walters Prize exhibtion is on display at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki in the Level Two Chartwell Galleries until 11 November 2012.

Kate Newby (1979 Auckland, New Zealand) graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts MFA program in 2007. Recent solo exhibitions include: I’m just like a pile of leaves, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, supported by the Chartwell Trust; I’ll follow you down the road, Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland; and Crawl out your window, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen. Selected group exhibitions include: Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam; Bas Jan Ader: Suspended between Laughter and Tears, Museo de Arte Zapopan (MAZ), Guadalajara; The Future is Unwritten, The Adam Art Gallery, Wellington; and Show me, don’t tell me, Witte de With, Brussels Biennial 1, Brussels.

Earlier this year Newby undertook a residency at ISCP, New York during which time she completed two temporary public commissions: All Parts. All the time., Olive St Garden and Cooper Park, Brooklyn, and How funny you are today New York, Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn. Newby is currently an artist in residence at Fogo Island Arts Corportation, Newfoundland.

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Chartwell Collection - News RSS

Video recording of Upright Piano, Samuel Holloway et al.

City Gallery Wellington senior curator

Chartwell artists in Adam Art Gallery exhibition

The 5th Auckland Triennial NZ artists

Frieze Art Fair New York- Sculpture Park

Imants Tillers- Australian Award 2013

Ruth Buchanan in Melbourne

13 Rooms Performance Series 2013.

Simon Denny for Venice Biennale curated exhibition

21st Century Custodianship:Collecting Media Art

Ralph Hotere 1931-2013

Simon Morris, Wall Drawing, Frankfurt 2012

Victoria Wynne-Jones at AAANZ

Julian Dashper - Donald Judd

Donald Judd Julian Dashper

Fiona Connor - Bare Use

Bare Use Fiona Connor

Chartwell work featured on NZ at Venice Blog

Chartwell show makes top picks list for 2012

Simon Denny-2013 Young Alumnus Of The Year

Made Active: The Chartwell Show exhibition images

Kate Newby Wins Walters Prize 2012

Donald Judd
Julian Dashper

Bare Use
Fiona Connor