The Dog God Cycle
The Dog God Cycle
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Artist
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Production Date
2022
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Medium
recombined jigaw puzzles of: Stephan's Quintet (2022), NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScl Rocky mountain Landscape (1870), Albert Bierstadt
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Size
3010 x 3930 x 40 mm
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Credit
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2022
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Accession Number
C2022/1/20/3.1-4
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Accession Date
05 May 2023
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Department
New Zealand Art
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Classification
Object
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Collection
Chartwell
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Description
'The Dog God Cycle', 2022 comes from a suite of large-scale jigsaw puzzles made up of more than 128,000 individual pieces that were exhibited in Zac Langdon-Pole’s 2022 exhibition Porous World. This immense work is a composite image made from combining 19th-century Romantic landscape paintings with the latest images from NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes. Langdon-Pole employs what he calls ‘ghost templates’ to focus our attention on how we comprehend images. Inspired by the figure–ground picture problems used in psychology, Langdon-Pole’s ‘ghost templates’ co-opt their confusion of subject so that viewers find themselves questioning what they are looking at, as well as how they perceive and understand the world.
– Natasha Conland, Senior Curator, Global Contempoary Art, 2023
